This year, the fall play class of twelve students is going to try their hand at performing Aesop Refabled at the Black Box on November 18 though the 20th. The play consist of eight classic Aesop fables that have been modernized and turned into typical high school scenarios.  This year, the play is being directed by substitute drama teacher, Alie Walsh.

“I wanted to find something contemporary,” Walsh said. “I love new work because I think the classics are fabulous, but it’s really fun for our actors to try contemporary theater because that’s really taking over right now.”

Contemporary theater is a different style of acting because it’s more realistic today, and more natural than other types of acting. For this class, there are ten actors and two tech students (the people who do backstage work on lights, sound, set, ect.). Everyone has a large part in the play, with every actor in at least two scenes.

The Black Box will be transformed into a thrust theatre, meaning that there will be an audience on three sides of the theatre  

“A thrust theatre changes your acting,” Walsh said. “It’s different than acting on proscenium stage.”  

Fables that are being performed are “Birds, Bats and Beast”, “The Two Crabs”, “The Ant and the Chrysalis”, “The Raven and the Swan”, “Hercules and the Wagner”, “The Laborer and the Snake”, “The Lion and the Boar”, and “The Boy and the Nettles.”