This is Drama Club 

The NHS Drama Club pulled off the impossible this year. In the midst of a pandemic, they put on not one, but two shows and are working on a third. 

Earlier this year, the drama club performed the play, "The 59 Steps," a “radio play based on an Alfred Hitchcock story” said Mr.Quinn, Drama Club adviser. The performance was taped and was recently released on a platform called “Broadway on Demand" online. 

On May 6, the Drama Club performed their spring musical, “This is Me,” a showcase of songs that explores identity from a variety of professional musicals. Mr. Quinn, who started Drama Club at NHS in 1996 and is now a side advisor of the club says that the musical is “different music and characterization from other musicals, and due to covid restrictions [they had] to kind of departmentalize smaller performances rather than to do one big one.” 

The third and final show Drama Club is putting on this year is a festival play for the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild One-Act play festival. The play will be filmed and sent to the festival for competition.

Drama club rehearsals have had to be online this year which has been very different. According to Ms. Sandstrum, the Drama Club advisor, “All of the drama club meetings have been virtual this year allowing everyone to attend and not feel left out. However, for those who are participating in rehearsals they have been kind of both in-person and remote.” 

“Covid has kind of taken us down a step creatively,” says Pierre Jecrois, a senior in Drama Club. “We still have fun, but we have to wear masks which is exhausting because a lot of acting is expressions and you can barely see them through the masks.” 

“I feel like I really need to bring it, because it's my last show I really need to outdo myself,” Jecrois said.