WS’s Theater took the plain black stage in WS’s auditorium
and transformed it into the setting for their play
“She Kills Monsters.” Countless hours and weeks went into
bringing the play to life on the Spartan stage.
“Rehearsals began in late September, and [continued] almost
every day after school until opening night, November
17[th],” said theater teacher Bernie DeLeo.
The play takes its audience back to the 1990s where the
main character, Agnes, is trying to work her way through
the sudden death of her sister, Tilly, and the rest of her family.
With the help of a high school student, Agnes enters the
imaginative video game that Tilly had recorded in a journal,
in order to learn more about the sister with whom she had
been distant.
“Tilly and [their] whole family die in a car crash so Agnes
is kind of left alone and she has no one to turn to so she decides
that she wants to get into this [Dungeons and Dragons]
world,” said senior Delaney Fetzer, who played Agnes.
The play was unique in that the audience was watching a
video game being acted out for most of the play. The beginning
of the play included a very brief acting out of the background
story before the scene of Agnes after her sister’s death
launched the main story. When Agnes enters her sister’s
By Sarah Thompson
Entertainment Editor “I think that a lot of tactical elements
—especially the stage combat [and]
the lighting—was also a major standout,
and that the acting was great.”
—Craig Goeringer, junior
video game, the characters (Agnes, Tilly, and Tilly’s friends)
fight different monsters that they have to defeat in order to
reach the game’s next level. The fighting in the video game
meant that there were many action scenes that the student actors
had worked hard on executing.
“[Learning the action scenes were] really fun because [it
was] just like a dance but with swords,” said junior Eila Nash.
The play did not fail to draw laughs from its audience. A
loud laugh would emerge from the audience whenever one
of the characters found themselves in a comically awkward
situation. However, it was not just laughs that kept the audience’s
attention. Many aspects in the play came together,
which glued the audiences’ eyes to the stage and were not
quickly forgotten after the curtains closed.
“I thought [the play] was actually really good. I think that
a lot of tactical elements especially the stage combat [and]
the lighting was also a major standout, and that the acting was
great,” said sophomore Craig Goeringer.