Theater is ramping up production of their last play of this season, “Miss Nelson is Missing.” This production is a double header, consisting of different casts, on Wednesday, May 14, at 6 p.m.
Showings are free, but donations to the theater program are optional. This 40-minute play follows the life of Miss Nelson and her class fiddled with hooligans who distraught Miss Nelson. The students are surprised when Miss Viola Swamp comes in and gets the class to work and they are on the mission to find Miss Nelson.
“I’m mostly excited about the fact that we are showing the story to kids,” junior Diego Fuentes Espinoza said. “Help them learn about the theater arts [and] get them excited, maybe they want to try it out. Even if they don’t want to try it out, just performing for such a young audience always embraces the joy to my heart to see them entertained.”
Espinoza is passionate about partaking in this production. This isn’t the only time where she has been in a theatre production, she has played a role as a physic in The Yellow Boat, the theater’s season opener.
“[I] mostly like the creative freedom and we’re given the ability [to] run around,” Espinoza said. “We’re all acting as kids, that’s a big part that’s my favorite thing.”
Since this production is a travel production, the set is a very simple, yet an understandable and progressive set that can be done in any setting
“[It’s] mostly just a simple little classroom,” senior lead set designer Samya Pappas said. “A whiteboard, a couple lines of chairs, maybe the podium.”
With the whole production focusing on entertaining elementary audiences and their parents, this production has clothing and accessories that was curated to fit in outfits of elementary students.
“I looked for costumes [of] little kids,” sophomore lead costume designer Citlalli Navarrete said. “For [every single costume] they were like 7-8 years old, and for Miss Nelson, I resembled her as [a] 30 year old teacher.”
With this show travelling to two elementary schools, this show has a dynamic like no other production the theater program has done.
“[I am a] big fan of the principal, he was what I wanted to audition for,” Espinoza said “And also Miss Nelson, I like her character, [but] I’m still happy with the character that I got.”
