BODENS SUMMER 2017 MAGAZINE
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<strong>BODENS</strong> PERFORMING ARTS<br />
MESSAGE FROM<br />
THE PRINCIPAL<br />
We hope you enjoy our Summer Term<br />
issue of Bodens Magazine. Everything<br />
here is written by young people at<br />
Bodens Performing Arts, all about their<br />
experiences on and off the stage. This issue<br />
features productions of Electra, Antigone,<br />
The Monstrum and Les Miserables. We<br />
look back to our summer courses, and<br />
forward to the term ahead.<br />
Adam Boden<br />
THE MONSTRUM<br />
Izzy Kelly<br />
LES MISERABLES<br />
Erin Boden<br />
AFTER ANTIGONE<br />
Olivia Lawrence<br />
SCHOOL OF ROCK<br />
Imogen Bowden<br />
THE FAMILY<br />
Harry Curley<br />
BEING ELECTRA<br />
Malini Murphy<br />
EXAMINATION CLASSES<br />
Isabel, Libby & Anastasia<br />
AWARDS NIGHT<br />
Tara Munnelly<br />
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THE PLACE FOR PERFORMING ARTS<br />
THE MONSTRUM<br />
written by our Assistant Director Izzy Kelly<br />
barren landscapes were<br />
As with every Connections<br />
and the fears parents face<br />
as their children grow and<br />
brought in. The idea of<br />
the cold was introduced in<br />
project, there is a script become independent. the script and developed<br />
selection process that ‘That sickness is called<br />
takes place before we The Monstrum’<br />
as the process went on.<br />
Initially the company<br />
are designated our final Our process with the cast devised short scenes and<br />
script. This year, we were really began on a cold images displaying the five<br />
handed The Monstrum winter's night in mid- major ages of character;<br />
by Kellie Smith. A gothic<br />
tale of a village of adults<br />
December. Our first job<br />
after reading the scripts<br />
children, teens before the<br />
Monstrum, the infected,<br />
with small-town mentality was discovering and after the Monstrum<br />
facing an infection in exploring the world of had left the system and<br />
their young. This infection<br />
involves gaining spots,<br />
the play. After our first<br />
Sunday rehearsal together<br />
adult. These inspired our<br />
staging and we decided<br />
strange hair and even we asked the company that an animalistic<br />
sleeping more than to bring in pictures of style of movement best<br />
usual. A tale of growing<br />
up and acceptance, the<br />
how they imagined the<br />
environment of the play<br />
represented the changes in<br />
the teenagers physicality<br />
Monstrum disease served<br />
as a metaphor for puberty<br />
to be. Many images of once the virus hit.<br />
a snowy tundra, or vast<br />
Photos by Lidia Crisafulli<br />
<strong>SUMMER</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
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