Putting the fall play together takes a lot of work, there are a lot of roles Mrs. Galvan needs to put together. Mrs Galvan is the director of the fall play and is fortunate to be able to get help from her students to put sets together and work backstage with lights. There is a lot of time and effort put into these plays that she puts together for the school, the play she is doing this year is called “Up the Down Stair case”.
The play this year is about a brand new teacher teaching for the first time at a school in New York, but the biggest problem she has is that a majority of the students drop out. They have no extra activities at school, they just go to school and go home. The teacher has no clue about this, she is going to try teaching the students even though they show no effort or enthusiasm towards learning.
In the play she is going to take the audience through the whole school year, the ups and downs, the students getting to know her and the process of the students growing respect for the teacher. The play is a comedy but it also has this serious tone with it too, there is more of a meaning behind it.
The play this year is definitely the biggest that she’s ever had, “In my thirteen years that I’ve been directing the after shows I’ve never had to make cuts until this year, we had 50 kids auditioning, when there were only 30 parts. I created six extra parts so now there is 36 parts.” When it comes to the auditions Galvan has the final say in who part is who. When students are auditioning “I am basing it off of not only talent but on attitude.”
Emily Silva
Tags: drama, redwood high school
