WCHS Students Heading To Thespian State Conference This Weekend
WCHS Students Heading To Thespian State Conference This Weekend
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Jackie Gorski-jgorski@timesuniononline.com
WCHS Students Heading To Thespian State Conference This WeekendWarsaw Community High School Select Theatre will take its production of “Where Words Once Were” by Finegan Kruckemeyer to the Indiana Thespian State Conference this weekend.
The troupe came in first place in November at the Indiana Thespian Regional Conference.
The state competition will start Friday at St. Mary’s College in South Bend.
Student Trislynn Lind said state is a competition over a couple days. The group will leave for state after school?Friday.
A couple groups will perform Friday. On Saturday, there are different things to do, such a workshops on dancing and stage combat, as well as more performances.
Also Saturday, there are “thespies,” which are individual events, which the WCHS students will compete in as well. There will be more workshops on Sunday.
Student Olivia Gabrich said the group hopes to win first and win chapter select, which will send the group to international competition in June in Indianapolis.
Student Edward Robison said the group placed second at state last year and was given an invitation to go to international, but they were unable to do so due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Students also talked about changes they have made to the play.
Robison said the judges at regionals liked the groups’ show, but “we understand there is no such thing as total perfection in anything, so there’s always something we can improve our show for the judges and those viewing as well.”
Director Melany Morris said the group took a break from performing the play after regionals. Since coming back from winter break, she believes the troupe “has really elevated” their performances.
Gabrich said the group has been working on little moments during the play to make it better.
Lind said “Where Words Once Were” shows what the world can become. She thinks it’s cool to portraying a dystopian society where words are all ready limited.
The play is about the government limiting citizens’ language to 1,000 words.
Robison said the play allows the viewers and actors to dig into an alternate universe in the sense there’s things that happen in the play that “we do not want to have in our own lives.” He thinks it’s important to know what those are and it’s one of the powers he thinks theater has in terms in the effects on others and the messages it can give.
Gabrich said one of her favorite things about the show is the underlying plot of a revolution happening and at the end, you see it happening on the faces of the people in the play.
