Howe Sound Secondary School鈥檚 theatre production class is gearing up to take to the Eagle Eye Theatre stage next month in their adaptation of Don Zolidis鈥� The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon.听
鈥淚t incorporates many of the Brothers Grimm stories,鈥� explained Christian Smith, spokesman for the madcap production and Grade 11 student.
There are two narrators who help guide the audience from tale to tale. 聽
鈥淚t鈥檚 definitely modernized and made into a comedy rather than the original short terrors,鈥� said the production鈥檚 costume designer, Tobin Eckstein, who is in Grade 12.
鈥淔or example, in the Hansel and Gretel scene, it is made into an 鈥�80s afterschool special type thing.鈥澛�
Smith said he hopes the audience comes away having laughed and feeling a bit better about life. 聽
鈥淲e want them to leave here happy,鈥� said Smith, who worked on set design for the play.听
聽Under the tutelage of teacher Christa Duttchen, the class, which includes students ranging from Grades 10 through 12, has been rehearsing since the beginning of the school year.
Fellow Grade 11 student Jada King-Drake, plays one of the birds in Cinderella and a crab person, a character that helps segue from one fairy tale to the next.
鈥淏ecause it is a really fast moving play, to break up between the main stories you have all these little side show stories,鈥� she said.
King-Drake, who also does hair for the actors in the show, said compared to last year鈥檚 production, The聽Edelweiss Pirates about a group of youth in Nazi Germany, this year鈥檚 production is a much more lighthearted romp.听
鈥淚f the people who came to see the play last year come to see this one they can see that we are diverse in the plays we do and we don鈥檛 just do one type of play,鈥� she said.听
鈥淲e do many different types of plays and our talent and skills are different.鈥澛�
The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon runs nightly from March 7 to 11 beginning at 7 p.m. each night at the Eagle Eye Theatre.听
