Maira had a blast at the drama camp she did last summer at the Citadel Theatre in downtown Edmonton. So this summer, she asked to go again and Connor asked if he could try it too.
They went to camp all day for five days and then on the final afternoon, they performed their plays for us.
Maira's play was a shipwreck set in the 1920's. She chose "Hazel Hunt" as her character name and their teacher wrote the script. Maira didn't have as many lines as she would have liked but she did an excellent job delivering the ones she had. We could hear her very clearly and she had a lot of expression.
Connor was in an older age category and performed a different play. Instead of being a narrative, it was a series of short skits all based on the theme of language. Connor's fun personality and humour shone through in his performance.
His teacher asked us not to videotape his play (I assume because there was a lot of copyrighted music in it?) but she had the cast make funny faces for their parents at the end so we could take lots of pictures. She'd give them a prompt and then they would react.
"You're cool"
"You're not cool"
"You're lost"
"You're found"
"You're scared of the audience"
"You love the audience"
"You need the audience"
"The audience stinks"
And I don't remember the prompts on these ones:
Jayna was staying with us that day because she was up for Spencer's bar call the night before so she and Brinsley and James came and watched the plays too.
We stopped by Churchill Square after to check out the Street Performers Festival but there had just been a giant rain storm so there was nothing to see.
