{"id":1561,"date":"2018-04-13T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2018-04-13T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:31:40","slug":"necessary-evil-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gracegazette.org\/wordpress1\/necessary-evil-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Necessary Evil: Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

The winter play this year, \u201cNecessary Evil,\u201d was the third student-written play to make its way to Grace theater. Tristan Griffin \u201818 and Laurent Brodie \u201818 wrote it with the vision of putting the classic superheroes we know in a modern plot.<\/span><\/p>\n

The play focuses on eight super villains from various movies and comics, including The Joker (James Mahedy \u201818), Harley Quinn (Georgia Ossorguine \u201818), Cruella Deville (Diana Michaelis \u201819), and more. After years of evil work, they all come together to a rehab center to attend a group therapy session. There are three curators of the therapy session, one trying to keep her job, one in charge of security, and another that turns out to be a mastermind behind a grand plan of evil. In the beginning, the plan is simple: give the supervillains back the lives that they deserve, and send them into the world as renewed people. However, this plan takes a twist. It turns out that one of the therapy curators, the intern (Gabe Lopez \u201818), initially nerdy and quiet, is behind a masterplan to kill each of the villains because he doesn\u2019t believe any of them will change once they leave the rehab center. <\/span><\/p>\n

I sat down with Laurent and Tristan to ask them how they went about directing and writing the play. Tristan explained that they \u201cdecided to <\/span>write a play because [they] wanted to explore [their] own creativity, and were always interested in producing\/directing a Grace Theater Company play.\u201d I also asked them how they decided what they wanted it to be about. They \u00a0explained that they \u201cboth love fictional characters, especially villains, so the idea actually came automatically to [them].\u201d Every year, the Grace Theater Company sends out an email inviting people that want to submit a self-written play to do so, with the potential to become the Winter play. I asked them about the process, \u201cwe got it approved in the fall of 2017 by submitting our final draft of the play to the faculty supervisors. Then, we were chosen!\u201d Sometimes, the best theater is written by more than one person; I asked if they had always wanted to collaborate, to which Tristan instantly responded, \u201cwe only embarked on this process because we knew we were working together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

All in all, this was a must-see play. If you missed it, you can catch the next student-written play next winter! <\/span><\/p>\n

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CAST:<\/span><\/p>\n

James Mahedy \u201818 – The Joker<\/span><\/p>\n

Gabe Lopez \u201818 – The Nerd\/Evil Mastermind<\/span><\/p>\n

Nick Molinaro \u201818 – The Security<\/span><\/p>\n

Georgia Ossorguine \u201818 – Harley Quinn<\/span><\/p>\n

Diana Michaelis \u201819 – Cruella Deville<\/span><\/p>\n

Lydia Reiss \u201820 – The Wicked Witch of the West<\/span><\/p>\n

Jake Scherr \u201818 – Walter White<\/span><\/p>\n

Lucia Rogerson \u201818 – The Therapist<\/span><\/p>\n

Abisola Fashakin \u201819 – A Psycho Killer<\/span><\/p>\n

James O\u2019Brien \u201820 – Dracula<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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