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  Trying on Costumes for the first time! The Lower School After school Drama Elective has been working on "The Rainbow Fish" to be presented on Wednesday, December 14th at 2PM and 7PM.  Middle School students have a chance to work with the Lower School students during rehearsals.  They help with acting coaching, backstage management and in some cases they work on design for the Lower School Performances.  Hear what our two Middle School Production Assistants have to say about the Lower School Drama Elective. Submitted by Oliver L, Grade 8: Production Assistant and Light Designer At Rashi, the Lower School Students have many options for After School Electives. One of these incredible activities they engage in is the Lower School Play. This year’s play is The Rainbow Fish . The story follows a special fish, Rainbow Fish, in an underwater kingdom, who thinks he is better than everyone else due to his shiny, colorful scales. After an incident, the whole kingdom ends up ...

 On Wednesday, December 7th at 8:15 the First Grade will be presenting "The Mitten".  The script is based on the book by Jan Brett and adapted by Bonny Parlee for the Rashi First Grade.   Progression is built into the Rashi grade level performances and the first graders will be saying a line by themselves for the first time on stage.  They have been working in the theater this past week and learning where to stand to say their lines, how to project their lines by using a big voice, the importance of facial expressions and body language and how to become a storyteller on stage.  The production is a collaboration with the Classroom Teachers, Music and Hebrew Departments.

 The Middle School After School Drama Elective will be presenting "A Wrinkle in Time" on Wednesday, Nov. 16th at 1:15 and Thursday, Nov. 17th at 7PM.  The students have been hard a work over the last seven weeks working on auditioning for parts,  technical designs for scenery, sound and costumes, staging the scenes and working on lots of tongue twisters as well as focusing and acting exercises. Students in the tech program afterschool start their rehearsals with the cast doing the warm-ups and exercises together.  Many of the MS students work tech for one show and then act on stage for another during the season.  This way everyone has a chance to gain some acting skills as well as building team cooperative skills. " This week in tech we did a lot with the help and supervision of Mike and we built set pieces." - Arlo Rogloff - 8th Grade.  Students work with Tech Director, Mike Finke on the proper and safe use of power tools and use these tools to build many ...

Rashi Middle School Students are busy working on the upcoming play "A Wrinkle in Time" to be presented on November 16-17th.  Students are able to work behind the scenes by signing up for two different in school MS electives classes.  The Tuesday elective "Props and Costumes" and the Friday elective "Technical Theater Design" have been working the last few weeks designing for the performance.  Students in the electives have identified the costume, prop and scenery pieces that they are working on for the eight week electives.  Using Design Thinking they have started the process by learning the wants and needs for a show and talking to the Directors (their clients) to understand the vision for the show.   The start of the process includes research using the script to learn about needs for the design and the internet to learn about the time period of the 80s  for the show settting.  The students also created a Mood Board for costume inspiration. Worki...

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