Me and a wonderful colleague of mine, Kelly Sehon, wrote a show entitled Twilight: A Stage Debacle! We wrote it and casted it within a month and started rehearsals as soon as we came back from Winter break.
It was hard for me to find one acts that I truly loved and felt the students would enjoy so I thought, "WHY DON'T I WRITE ONE? I'M HILARIOUS!" So I texted/called Kelly and forced him to write this play with me! It all surprisingly came together very quickly. We discussed the plot and talked about random characters and before we knew it we had a list of characters and a full story!
For those of you who do not know me very well, I'm not the biggest fan of Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. After reading the whole series, I found the message in it overall was actually pretty awful to be putting out to girls. I felt that it told girls that if you do not have a strong man in your life, that your life is not worth living. Bella was not a strong female character. She was not independent, she was not intelligent.... she was angsty, needy, and her life literally revolved around Edward.
OKAY. I NEED TO STEP OFF THIS SOAPBOX.
Anyway, the show we wrote made fun of the movie not necessarily the books. We put most of the "iconic" parts of the movie into our show. The play is about my school putting on a play.... it's kind of confusing to explain, you just have to know it was clever and hilarious, and the students did splendidly in it!
Here are a few pictures during rehearsals:
Kelly and I are extremely proud of the show and the students who were involved in this. They really brought the characters to life and it was such a fun play! We're hoping to publish the script, but we need to find out if we crossed any copyright issues because it pokes fun of Twilight.
My brain is already moving on to the show for next year! I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself, but this school year needs to end first. =D
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