The other characters all have a catch and you’re not really rooting for one. Both of the love interests are controlled by the lavish society around them and the secondary characters constantly bow down to that. I understand the feeling of gravitating towards wealth and popularity in high school but sometimes shows with the “cool kids” and “nerds” plot get a little redundant for a time in people’s life that is really complex.
     The play is a modern-day adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. My biggest thing about adaptations like this is that they take out all the good parts. Every modern-day adaptation takes out the ballgowns, carriages and castles and trades them for an old pair of blue jeans, a rusty car and an urban apartment. In “The Great Gatsby”, it’s all about the parties, the dancing, and the fashion. The play takes out most of the lavish aesthetic, but it does a good job of making it more relatable for high schoolers today and how wealth now looks in their eyes.
     For this show, I also took the initiative of making the Playbill, and that has taken every last drop of creative juice in me. I think I was supposed to have submitted it about a week ago, but my body has literally been in survival mode since the cast list dropped.

     With the Playbill and my lines, I was really just hoping to pull it off, honestly. As soon as the lights went out on the ending scene of the last show, I was so relieved. I took a deep breath and it was like my lungs expanded two times the size. I did enjoy doing the show, but it had its difficulties. Maybe next show I’ll get it together, but I’ll probably say that next time, too, like I always do.