Theater 1 students continue to explore the art of theater through storytelling and scriptwriting with a project that began by having  students write a fairy tale they remembered from there past and create two scenes based off of it, and now, students are required to make an adaptation of those two scripts.

“This week in Theatre I, we are continuing our Playwriting Unit,” theatre director Heather Willingham said. “Students have been tasked to take the first two scenes they wrote of a traditional fairy tale and begin writing a modern adaptation of that story. This will help expand their creativity or imagination  in which they may have not encountered otherwise.”

Senior Mykah Robins believes that while it may not have been her preferred method to learn, writing the adaptations allowed her to use her imagination based on a story he heard to a story she could tell.

“So I like theater as an in-person class,” Robins said. “The whole online thing is a little weird and I feel like I’m not getting the whole experience but since we have no other option, I feel like this is the best that can be done. Adaptations are a really interesting project, I believe. It really allows the person to use his/her own imagination into a modernized film while still keeping it’s a basic theme within the story.”

Even though writing an adaptation was challenging to some students, it was a good way for freshman Emily Thomas to expand her imagination and creativity.

“I think it is a good way to get creative,” Thomas said. “I also like that it is a project including fairy tales because it makes me nostalgic. It is a lot of work, but I think it is fun!”