I don't really care what my fellow critics may say about it, about how transitions were messy, it was obviously not well polished and idk.

To me the most important thing about music, theatre and art in general is the heart. And this play, the actors had a lot of heart. There were moments where I believed in everything. The heartbreak, sorrow and joy. And yes, that made it for me. I think I realised it when despite the high-pitched voice of that girl, though its a little hard for me to think of her as a boy consciously, at least the attraction to her co-actor playing her love interest was believable and seemed real, not in a lesbian way.

Somehow the thing that touched me most was the performance of the person playing Bethany. Oh I should check her name really. Hmm. Yellow-flagged. I probably shouldn't put her full name here so I'll just call her Jolyn. To me, Jolyn's flaws in her acting stood out the most. Her character didn't seem real enough as compared to the other louder characters like the dynamic and energetic Alicia, she got a few reactions wrong and her facial expressions were wonky at times. But especially in the video montage and in all the parts really where she addressed her non-appearing husband Michael were the parts of the play that um affected me the most I guess. No matter how much I might have identified with the other characters. Honestly I'd say I didn't identify with that character, but I could sympathise a lot. That felt real to me.

Maybe its just me being a sucker for love, but from that point on I bought the play. heh. Besides that it was a wonderful reality check. I'm definitely not going to players next year. Rubbing shoulders with all of them would be heavily intimidating.

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Oh and before I forget one more thing. The audience were absolutely appalling. But then I realised cause of the nature of the school culture it was probably like that every year and they expected the audience to do the certain things they did. I.e. hoot at every single mention of love and relationships. Despite that they actually staged the play which I thought was wonderfully brave and courageous in the face of the stupid school culture.

And they silenced the laughter in the end.

That's the important part. Though honestly even if they hadn't sold me over, they had me all bundled up. Really. Pretty stunning even without considering that they did this in two weeks.

Scary shtuff.