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Director's Note

Expelliarmus!

Finally we are conjuring our way into this year’s High School Production. For the moment there, it seemed like everything was against us! But the resilience of SIS students, faculty and staff held fast and accomplished great things.

We initially wanted to produce Freaky Friday, the Disney Musical but due to COVID restrictions it was impossible to appropriately stage without masking. Then we switched to this comical play to be staged with masks - and it could also be easily adapted to online if need be. Unfortunately, many of our original musical cast were unable to continue due to other commitments, so we asked our Drama I/II class - many of whom couldn’t contribute after school - to join us! How? By creating an audio play to be streamed online, the Drama class working in class time on recording and mixing, the after school students doing the same.

Voice actors are highly sort after for vocal work in animation, commercials, prerecorded announcements and of course video games. Our talented students have shown great innovation and exceptional expression to create voices for unusual mythical creatures and odd but fascinating characters. They have also worked tirelessly to record, edit and mix not only voice tracks but music and sound effects too.

The cast, crew and I hope you enjoy this surreal audio journey into the world of wizards and their quest to find 'mythical creatures and how to approach them’….

Shane Meiklejohn

Director