User blog:Emmatigerlily/Hogwarts Play: Alice in Wonderland

 Hogwarts Play: Alice In Wonderland Hi there, folks! So, I've been talking about it for a while and trying to plan and get my head around things, finally I think I'm (somewhat) ready to announce this production and confirm that it's going to happen. I'm sorry that this is just a big block of text, I'm not very good at explaining things without rambling on :P If you need any more help understand anything then just owl me to let me know :D

What play are we doing?
From the title of this post, I think you can tell that the play we've chosen to do is Alice in Wonderland! I posted a brief poll and this one got the highest, so it's the one we're going with, I'm sorry if this isn't what someone wanted, but I can't please everyone.

Wait! I don't know anything about the plot to Alice In Wonderland!
Well...Alice in Wonderland is a popular children's book that's been adapted many times into films and plays.

In essence it's about a young girl who follows a white rabbit into a mysterious land called Wonderland. In the land she meets many strange people and has some very peculiar encounters before she eventually wakes up and realizes that it was all a dream.

You can find much better descriptions online, but I'm hardly an expert or anything on it :P Let me know if you do want to know any more thought :)

What scenes are we going to do?
Okay, so...so that things don't get too messy and complicated, we decided to just stick to doing a couple of scenes in practice and in the finished production, (but obviously IC they're still doing the whole play).

The scenes we chose are:


 * A small part of the first scene, involving the White Rabbit which Alice chases down the rabbit hole and into Wonderland.
 * The very end of the 5th scene, is Alice's meeting with the Cheshire Cat.
 * <font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara"><font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara">Parts of The Mat Hatter's Tea Party, which I think most people will know.
 * <font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara"><font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara">Scene 8, which involves the 3 gardeners painting the roses red and the Queen getting angry about it.

<font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara">The scripts to these scenes are here, you'll need them during rehearsals else you'll not know where we're supposed to be :P

<font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara"><font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara">So...how is this all going to work?
<font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara"> <font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara">Well, I'm still working on a lot of that :P

<font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara"> <font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara">What I do know is that auditions will be open as of the publication of this blog post and the start of the feast. So go and audition for an acting role now!

<font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara"> <font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara">The roles will be chosen at the end of Hogwarts week 2. If you want your character to be part of the art, music or behind the scenes department then you can just sign them straight up, but if you'd rather they meet with Kimi and get accepted that way then just let me know.

<font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara"> <font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara">Rehearsals and general practice/getting ready will go all the way through to the end of week 6. Rehearsals will take place in the Empty Classroom, at whatever pace you want them to - to avoid complications I'm not going to set how they do it or anything. They can be done between however many people you like, so one way I see it working is if you noticed 3 or 4 people on chat with characters that are involved and you just get them together to practice a scene or something. You can also involve the behind the scenes crew and all of the rest as well. This is experimental, if I'm honest I don't know how this is going to work, so I'm open to suggestions :) Of course, you're welcome to discuss it anywhere in Hogwarts you like even if your character isn't involved, and people can do their own private practices too.

<font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara"> <font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara">The performance itself will take place on week 7, but I predict it'll go right through to week 9. I'm still unsure at how it's going to work, but I hope to have a place for friends and family to come and watch (kind of like Quidditch I guess) and obviously somewhere for it to be performed.

<font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara"> <font size="put the size here" color="black" face="Candara">I'm sorry that I don't have more information, but there's still a lot I'm trying to figure out :/

Soo...that's what I've got to far. I think this will be a learning experience and I just need to see how people respond and where things go from here :D

Side Note:
I already say in a blog post before that this is the one club I decided to stick to this year, so I won't be hosting any of the others. But I know a lot of people (including myself) were interested in them, so if anyone wants to have a go at organizing something then please just go for it. I'd try to help where I can, but I can't promise anything.