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Promising playwrights set scene for Middle School production
The upcoming Middle School play is being specifically adapted for the Hamden Hall community by those who best know the campus: Middle Schoolers!
Promising playwrights have been scripting the scenes that their peers will perform in May. The Pauper Project, loosely based on the more established The Prince and the Pauper, takes place in New Haven in 1912 – the same year Hamden Hall was founded! (Theatre guru and lead playwright Charlie Alexander selected the date and locale to commemorate the school’s centennial anniversary.)
“It’s exciting knowing that you are writing everything that your peers will be hearing,” said eighth-grader Kayla Stanley, who auditioned for a role in the production in addition to her writing credits.
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The upcoming Middle School play is being specifically adapted for the Hamden Hall community by those who best know the campus: Middle Schoolers!
Promising playwrights have been scripting the scenes that their peers will perform in May. The Pauper Project, loosely based on the more established The Prince and the Pauper, takes place in New Haven in 1912 – the same year Hamden Hall was founded! (Theatre guru and lead playwright Charlie Alexander selected the date and locale to commemorate the school’s centennial anniversary.)
“It’s exciting knowing that you are writing everything that your peers will be hearing,” said eighth-grader Kayla Stanley, who auditioned for a role in the production in addition to her writing credits.
“We had to do all this research before we started writing,” explained seventh-grader Monica Gregoretti, “like what people used to wear in 1912.”
To try their hand at play writing, students had to audition. The entire play is 60 pages and about 45 minutes long.
“We’re each writing a scene,” said eighth-grader Alyssa Carroll. “And we have an outline of what needs to happen in a scene and then we take it where we want.”
To a point. According to Mr. Alexander, who is the managing editor on the project, appropriate research had to be done in order to set the scene accordingly.
For instance, Monica had to research ballrooms in the New Haven area during 1912. After all, you can’t host a ball without a lavish ballroom!
There were no ballrooms in eighth-grader Aristedes Manthous’ scene. Instead, he was charged with writing the strike scene.
“It’s fun,” he said. “This is a first for me and I’m enjoying it.”
“The Pauper Project” will grace Hamden Hall’s stage May 18-19 at 7 p.m.
1108 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, Connecticut 06517
Phone: 203-752-2600
Fax: 203-752-2651
admissions@hamdenhall.org
Hamden, Connecticut 06517
Phone: 203-752-2600
Fax: 203-752-2651
admissions@hamdenhall.org
Hamden Hall Country Day School, located less than two miles from Yale University, is one of the best private schools in Connecticut to enroll elementary, middle, and high school students. Our nurturing and inclusive community provides a dynamic learning environment that promotes academic excellence by understanding each child and fostering their individual growth.
