28 Reasons Not To Be In A Play

The drama club at Mandy's Jr. High put on a production titled 28 Reasons Not To Be In A Play.  They called it a non-play with non-characters.  There is not a main story line they followed.  The students often played many different roles and each reason was a mini story line of it's own that all intertwined into the production.  In a nutshell, it was very funny & the kids did a great job in their own parts.

Mandy played 3 specific characters, but was also in many group scenes.  She did a wonderful job and yet it was all very natural.  Acting & drama is one thing that has always come very naturally to Mandy.

(Disclaimer to all my pictures.  Taking pictures was discouraged, but if you did you could not take any using flash. My point shoot is bad enough sometimes, doing so without flash is often even worse.  So I did the best with what I had to capture the moments.)

Mandy's first character was portraying that annoying little girl who grew up in your neighborhood that wouldn't leave you alone and had to turn every playdate into a story that revolved around her being a fairy princess.

 Next she was a student who was in a play and had a lengthy conversation with her mom after the production.  It goes through what the mom really thinks of the play despite trying to tell her daughter that the play was "great".  All the eye rolling, hands on hips and "MOOOOM!" parts that Mandy had to portray really was just her everyday antics with me.  No acting needed, just act natural : )  

 Here she is with part of the cast.  Listening to another person portray another reason not to be in a play.

 Lastly she portrayed a character named Pyro, who along with her friends, Flame & Nitro are techies who are in charge of special effects in the school play.  They get all psyched out because the play involves blowing up the school.

Here is a little snippit of video from her Fairy scene.



A few extra disclaimers.  When I spoke of Mandy's everyday antics with me.  I don't mean to portray her as a rude, back talking kid.  I meant that in the way she can be so dramatic or passionate in her conversations with me.  Also, I never really though much about the blowing up scenario until I was writing it out.  To be sensitive to such events that happen these days, the play portrayed these girls in a good light who are simply ooohed & awwwwed by blowing things up.  It was quite comedic as they had lots of lines like "duuuuude, we getta blow this up."  "duuuuuude"  "coooool".

It was a great production and I'm so grateful that we have a drama club the engages these kids to use their talents with good & fun entertainment.