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- STATE Final Round
to be held March 31st - April 2nd in Boston at the Boston Back Bay Events Center (John Hancock Hall). NRHS Masquers will be performing GOREY STORIES at 12:30pm on Saturday, April 2
Click HERE for more information
State Final Forms and Details
Cast gift is $2 per person by Monday, March 28
Recommended monies for lunch is $10. Recommended monies for dinner is $25
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Transportation
We will take a bus on Thursday, March 31 and Friday April 1. This will be paid for through the funds we raise Wednesday, March 30. So no out of pocket cost. If we don't have enough drivers for Saturday, we will need to take a bus and there might be cost. Please fill in the permission slip and return it no later than Monday, March 28. |
Dramaturge/Directors Notes
The somewhat autobiographical look at one of Edward Gorey’s works, THE UNDSTRUNG HARP, is a look at the literary life and its 'attendant woes: isolation, writer's block, professional jealousy, and plain boredom.' But as with all of Edward Gorey's books, TUH is also about life in general, with its anguish, turnips, conjunctions, illness, defeat, string, parties, no parties, desuetude, fever, tides, labels, mourning, elsewards. Finally, TUH is about Edward Gorey the writer, about Edward Gorey writing THE UNSTRUNG HARP.
Each story is woven throughout Earbrass’ (Jason Glenn) mind brings more and more obscure and Macabre-madcap murder to the forefront with an ingeniously absurd and loose plot. Edward Gorey that his stories are written as pure entertainment and that “reading anything else into it is absurd”. It forces the reader to fill in the blanks with their own imagination.
Gorey wrote “This is the theory… that anything that is art….. is presumable about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because of you just have something it is boring and if it is something else it’s irritating. “
The stylistic choices of the show follow that Edwardian style, British Farce and a good dose of Melodrama as described by David Mayer in The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre is “a tragi-comedy…. It was this deformed hybrid – this state of being neither one thing nor another, which refused to equate disaster and tragic excess with death.”
The characters are all encompassing parts of the author’s imagination as Earbrass becomes whatever the moment calls for. Dressed in Edwardian-steam-punk style, characters can be lascivious or pathetic, angry and then cloyingly manipulative, rational and then arbitrary, frail and then spry, all conscious choices designed for the greatest benefit.
Our set designed was headed by Colleen O’Brien and the Advanced Technical Theatre class; they envisioned a world where the author’s thoughts were a mini stage where his stories and ideas played themselves out. It suggests reality, refers to reality but never tries to be absolutely realistic. Inspired by Edward Gorey’s own drawings, each scene and each character became three dimensional and took on their own individual path.
If it’s escapism you’re out for, then this production has all the elements of fun. It’s a bloody good time.
Each story is woven throughout Earbrass’ (Jason Glenn) mind brings more and more obscure and Macabre-madcap murder to the forefront with an ingeniously absurd and loose plot. Edward Gorey that his stories are written as pure entertainment and that “reading anything else into it is absurd”. It forces the reader to fill in the blanks with their own imagination.
Gorey wrote “This is the theory… that anything that is art….. is presumable about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because of you just have something it is boring and if it is something else it’s irritating. “
The stylistic choices of the show follow that Edwardian style, British Farce and a good dose of Melodrama as described by David Mayer in The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre is “a tragi-comedy…. It was this deformed hybrid – this state of being neither one thing nor another, which refused to equate disaster and tragic excess with death.”
The characters are all encompassing parts of the author’s imagination as Earbrass becomes whatever the moment calls for. Dressed in Edwardian-steam-punk style, characters can be lascivious or pathetic, angry and then cloyingly manipulative, rational and then arbitrary, frail and then spry, all conscious choices designed for the greatest benefit.
Our set designed was headed by Colleen O’Brien and the Advanced Technical Theatre class; they envisioned a world where the author’s thoughts were a mini stage where his stories and ideas played themselves out. It suggests reality, refers to reality but never tries to be absolutely realistic. Inspired by Edward Gorey’s own drawings, each scene and each character became three dimensional and took on their own individual path.
If it’s escapism you’re out for, then this production has all the elements of fun. It’s a bloody good time.
Semi - Final Forms and Details
Cast gift is $1 per person
Lunch is $12. All you can eat chinese buffet - including vegetarian & gluten free options. DInner is $5 per half pizza. The pizza is small-ish (bar size) and gormet from Cape Cod Cafe. Please turn in your money by Monday, March 7 |
Transportation
We will take a bus on Wednesday, March 16. This is paid through the funds we raised hosting Dramafest so no out of pocket cost. Please fill in the permission slip and return it by Monday, March 7. |
Preliminary Round
Saturday, February 27, 2016
6:30 All Masquers members meet at NRHS to set up
7:45 Arrive, get name tags, report to homebase
8:00 Directors meeting
8:55 Greetings/ Opening Ceremonies
9:00 North Reading - "Gorey Stories"
10:00 Winthrop - "Peter/Wendy"
11:15 North Andover "Woman and Wallace"
12:15 Woburn " Adagio and the Death of Love"
1:00-1:50 Lunch Break
1:55 Greetings back from Lunch
2:00 Austin Prep " Indoor/Outdoor"
3:00 Pope John XXIII - " The Yellow Boat"
4:30 Peabody - "The Long Christmas Ride Home"
5:30 Clark School - "American Passes"
6:30 Town hall discussion in theatre - not open to the public
7:00 Pizza Dinner in the cafe
7:30 Dance in the PAC
8:30 Awards (will probably not start on time)
7:45 Arrive, get name tags, report to homebase
8:00 Directors meeting
8:55 Greetings/ Opening Ceremonies
9:00 North Reading - "Gorey Stories"
10:00 Winthrop - "Peter/Wendy"
11:15 North Andover "Woman and Wallace"
12:15 Woburn " Adagio and the Death of Love"
1:00-1:50 Lunch Break
1:55 Greetings back from Lunch
2:00 Austin Prep " Indoor/Outdoor"
3:00 Pope John XXIII - " The Yellow Boat"
4:30 Peabody - "The Long Christmas Ride Home"
5:30 Clark School - "American Passes"
6:30 Town hall discussion in theatre - not open to the public
7:00 Pizza Dinner in the cafe
7:30 Dance in the PAC
8:30 Awards (will probably not start on time)
North Reading Hosts Prelims
Preliminary FoodLunch is $8. Pasta with or without sauce and meatballs, garlic bread, salad, fruit, cookie and milk or water. Please turn in your money by
February 12 Dinner is pizza and water. Please pay for your order by Feb 12 |
Medical FormsMETG requires all students to register their medical information via family id. Please click the link below and fill in all necessary information.
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Signup Genius for Concession Donations
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