Selwyn Times: June 16, 2021

Selwyn Times Wednesday June 16 2021
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Students almost ready for spooky
• By Susan Sandys
LINCOLN HIGH School
students are preparing to stage
The Addams Family musical as
they learn all about theatrical
production in a timetabled
subject.
Seventy-seven students from
year 10 to 13 have developed
expertise in their chosen
strand of study as part of the
subject, whether it be in stage
performance or behind-thescenes
topics such as make-up,
set design, lighting and sound.
Director and drama teacher
Sandra McLean said it had
been “a massive journey” to get
to the lead-up to opening night,
which would be Wednesday next
week.
“I’m absolutely excited, I can’t
wait for a live audience to see
it. I think we have some really,
really strong leads this year, and
we have a very talented cast,”
McLean said.
It was the first time the
school’s biennial production
had been undertaken as part
of a timetabled subject. In
previous years it had been an
extra-curricular undertaking,
with rehearsals on Tuesday and
Thursday nights, and six to eight
hours on Sundays.
Students are still spending
their Sundays rehearsing, as
well devoting plenty of their
remaining out-of-school time to
preparing for the show.
McLean said the students had
embraced every aspect of the
musical black comedy, including
the challenging make-up and
costuming.
The deathly-pale skin colour
of the characters necessitated a
white cream-based make-up to be
applied to faces, arms and legs.
“Some of them have never
had to do stage makeup like this
before, this is next level,” she
said.
When it came to the
costuming for the ancestors, of
which there were 68 in the show,
cast members had raided their
wardrobes and visited op shops
NEXT
LEVEL: Cast
members
(from left)
Emma
Grant, Emma
Moore, Katie
Knighton
and Sophie
Moore, go
big on black
eyeshadow
and white
make-up.
to source clothes for dying to
shades of grey and white.
McLean said students were
enjoying the show’s funny and
quirky aspects, alongside it’s
“life-affirming” and “familyfocussed”
themes.
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