Year 5 Production

The lights go out.

I silently creep up the stairs, increasing excitement every second. The eight weeks work was finally paying back…

Our play, Hanging onto the Bottom of the World (HOTBOTW), was a play about Australian history. The play had people playing characters accurate in Australian history, like someone playing ‘Captain Cook’ and someone playing ‘Governor Arthur Phillip’. There were also other characters that were from the future, like the Bruce and Eddie, our commentators for the ‘making of Australia’. In the play, I played a soldier accompanying Captain Cook poo and Governor Phillip. A PLA I had to use was courage, because I had to practice a lot to really ‘step inside’ my character. But with a lot of practice, I could finally do it.

Our director of the play was Ms. Quodling, a teacher who gave us our roles and taught us a lot of useful things about the production. We also got help from Tim, a drama person from middle school. Other people, like Mrs Ingles (a teacher), and liv. They all helped our play be interesting a more funny.

During the production, we used a lot of props. During practice, I used a wooden gun, but that was soon changed to a gun made out of toilet-rolls. There were also other props, such as apples, camp chairs, sunglasses, hats, a gold nugget, edible sandwiches, and a lot more!

After such a long time of practice, we had finally performed the production in high standard. I couldn’t believe that just 8 weeks ago, our production was something new to us and now, we know our lines extremely well.

Have you been in a production before?