Drama Club

Hi,

My name is Sarina Kledzik and I am the sponsor of the Drama Club and I direct the Fall Play and co-direct the Spring Musical.  I used to live in Los Angeles where I worked as an actress before I decided to move back to Chicago to become a teacher.  I have worked at Eisenhower for 14 years and I have loved every second of it.  I love introducing students to my passion for the arts and I hope they enjoy their experiences in the drama program as much as I have.  

 

Upcoming meeting times for Drama Club:   Regular meeting times will be specific Friday's from 3:30 to 4:15 in 136.  The calendar is posted on this page.  The first meeting will be Friday August 28th from 3:30-4:15 and attendance is mandatory if students expect to be able to attend the first field trip of the 26/27 school and no experience is necessary.  If anyone has any questions about drama club please come and see me in room 136.  Feel free to join ay any time.   We play improv games, work on acting techniques, help with the fall play and the spring musical and go see LOTS of live theater!   We will continue to visit Paramount Theater to see the following shows ("Mean Girls," "A Chistmas Carol," "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," and "Sundays in the Park with George.")

 

Friday 8/28 3:30-4:15 (136)

Friday 9/11 3:30-4:15 (136) Field Trip to see "Mean Girls"

Friday 10/23 3:30-4:15 (136)

Friday 11/6 3:30-4:15 (136)

Friday 11/19 3:30-4:15 (136) Field Triip to see "A Christmas Caol"

Friday 12/4 3:30-4:15 (136)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Fall Play: The fall play this year is "The Play that Goes Wrong" and I am so excited because it is a personal favorite of mine!  Auditions are Thursday August 20th at 4:00 in room 136.  Again, no experience is necessary and callbacks will be Friday August 21st at 3:30 in room 136.  The rehearsal schedule is also posted on the calendar. The show opens in our brand new Performing Arts Center for staff and students on Friday 10/2 at 7 pm and Saturday 10/3 at 7 pm.   Ticket prices for the shows will be 10.00 for adults and 5.00 for kids/seniors.  Please come out for this rip roaring comedy and celebrate the first show in our state of the art PAC.  More details will be forthcoming on the opening of the fall play so keep checking back for more details.  Please see Mrs. Kledzik in 136 for any further information about auditions or the show.  We always need tech support for the production as well so reach out if you are interested in working behind the scenes.

 

Synopsis of the Fall Play: 

The Play That Goes Wrong is a fast-paced farce about the Cornley Drama Society, an enthusiastic but disastrously accident-prone theater company attempting to perform a 1920s murder mystery called The Murder at Haversham Manor.

The evening begins with a seemingly straightforward mystery: Charles Haversham has been found dead, and the characters must determine who killed him. Unfortunately, almost immediately, everything that can possibly go wrong does.

The set begins to fall apart. Props disappear or malfunction. Actors forget lines, miss entrances, mispronounce words, get knocked unconscious, and desperately try to keep the performance moving. Crew members are forced into the action, actors compete for the spotlight, and increasingly dangerous mishaps occur as the cast stubbornly follows the theater rule that the show must go on.

As the murder mystery becomes more complicated, the real suspense becomes whether the Cornley Drama Society will actually survive long enough to reach the final curtain. The actors refuse to give up, even as the production literally collapses around them.

The result is a hilarious combination of murder mystery, slapstick comedy, physical humor, perfectly timed technical disasters, and theatrical chaos.