On Friday, Dec. 10, Fremd Theater presented One Acts in the Kolze Auditorium. There were two showings, one on Friday and one on Saturday at 7 PM.
One Acts is a yearly event in which students work together to create their own directed plays. Applied Tech teacher Michael Karasch sponsors One Acts and helps organize the event.
“One Acts is student-directed and designed plays, a series of plays for a festival,” Karasch said. “The kids can choose to write the plays, or they can choose a published play. We have five that were written and one that was a published play, and they do all the work from casting to directing to designing”.
With so much support and care from the Fremd Theater community and its sponsors, these six outstanding performances were indeed a sight to behold.
Fremd Junior Anysa Burgos, created the play Glossolalia. Glossolalia tells the story of two young teenagers who, through unexpected odds, became lovers in high school and continued their relationship till marriage. Not many know the meaning of the word glossolalia, which is what Anysa answered through her play.
“My inspiration actually came from this word I saw in my English sophomore year called glossolalia, which is the phenomenon of suddenly speaking in a language that wasn’t previously known to you,” Burgos said. “…it made me think of what’s a language that we all can speak, and I think that love, although not like a traditional language, is a language that we are all capable of speaking…and I just thought that that would be a great idea for the play”.
Fremd Senior Noah Gable, created the play Suburbia. It takes place in a dystopian world where Suburbia’s inhabitants must wear masks that alter their perception of a dark and bleak world. Families don’t have true bonds, and people don’t feel their true feelings. Those who remove their masks would be terminated, as well as their families. This Orwellian concept for a play came to Noah in an unexpected way.
“Well, I had a dream once,” Gable said. “And I was like, oh, that’d be an awesome play. So then I just wrote about it”.
One Acts hosted plays from various genres. Whether people are into Western themes, dystopian worlds, or love stories, Fremd’s talented play directors provided their viewers with something that everyone enjoyed.
