Page 8/The Sun and News, Saturday, October 30, 2021Greg Chandler
Staff Writer
The Caledonia High
School Players will present
their fall production, “Alice
and the Rabbits of
Wonderland,” next weekend
at the CHS Fine Arts Center,
9050 Kraft Ave. SE.
Shows will begin at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. A Saturday mati-
nee is planned at 2 p.m.
CHS Players director Kate
Lane wrote the script for the
play, which is an adaptation
of Lewis Carroll’s classic
story “Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland.” Lane said she
came up with the script during
the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It started with asking the
kids what they wanted to do,
because they went through a
rough year last year. I said,
‘Tell me what would make
your heart happy,’” Lane
said. “They said they wanted
to do a Robin Hood-style
fantasy adventure. That wasmy starting point.”
As she went through old
scripts she had written in
college and began thinking
about how to come up with
the script for this play, Lane
came to a realization about
the Alice story.
“You know, Alice is 6
[years old] in the book,” she
said. “There is no way she did
everything that she did safely
and got out the other side [in
the original story]. There is no
way that happens.”
Because the original Alicestory was written more than
100 years ago and as a result,
is in public domain, Lane
could adapt the story without
violating copyright laws.
“The concept of the play is
it’s ‘Alice in Wonderland,’
but we now see what really
happened – it’s these charac-
ters that are in the back-
ground, orchestrating things
and getting all the dangerous,
bad things out of the way so
this little girl can just walk
through and think ‘I did it
myself,’” Lane said.People watching the play
who are familiar with the
original story will see many
of its characters and hear
lines from the original story.
“There’s the White Queen,
the Red Queen,” Lane said.
“Tweedle Dum and Tweedle
Dee’s lines are exactly the
same.”
For Chloe Reese, who por-
trays one of the servants, this
is her first high school the-
ater production.
“We basically serve the
queens,” Reese said, adding
that she carries a talking fish
with her during the play,
while other servants carry a
jewel box and a cricket that
can do math problems.
Senior Harlei Mansfield,
who portrays the March
Hare, is in her first theater
production at CHS after
being a member of the
school’s color guard unit.
“I love it. I really like that I
got [to play] this crazy char-
acter. I like to act a little bit
insane sometimes,” said
Mansfield, who plans to study
theater next fall at Cedarville
University in Ohio.
Junior Emilee Ferris, who
will play the Red Queen, is
in her ninth CHS production.
“It’s like a family,” Ferris
said of the CHS theater pro-
gram. “We’re all super close.
I know I can trust any of the
people [in our group].”
The cast consists of Riley
Collins, who will narrate the
prologue, Ella Orosz as Alice;
Sam Temple as Borogove 1;
Ayden Taylor as Borogove 2;
Meghan Ruthven as Borogove
3; Sydney Dochstader as the
White Bishop; Caydence
Reed and Greta Betz as the
White Pawns; Del
Kosiorowski as the White
Rabbit; Suzannah Green as
Rose; Raven Medina as theWhite Queen; Hunter Myers
as the Spotted Rabbit; Sydney
Dochstader, Sophia Bartuch,
Sophia Anderson, Suzannah
Green, Sude Unal and Riley
Collins as the Mome Raths;
Taryn Briones as the Brown
Rabbit; Caleb Thome as
Gerald; David Tyler as the
Black Rabbit; Amelie Schotte
as the Guard; Kara DeVault as
Passenger 1; Greta Betz as
Passenger 2; Elizabeth Hilton
as Passenger 3; Johanna
Sproul as Passenger 4;
Caydence Reed as Passenger
5; Lauren Kosiorowski as
Tweedle Dee; Emery Rewa as
Tweedle Dum; Megan Russell
as the Cheshire Cat; Sude
Unal as Humpty Dumpty;
Claudia Rissley as the Red
Rabbit; Emilee Ferris as the
Red Queen; Chloe Reese as
Servant 1; Sophia Anderson
as Servant 2; Sophia Bartuch
as Servant 3; Olivia Bartuch
as the Fish; Sophia Anderson
as the Red King; Landen
Pecha-Gnat as the Mad Hatter;
Harlei Mansfield as the March
Hare; Sophia Bartuch as the
Mutton; and Sydney
Dochstader as Pudding.
The crew consists of stage
manager Ryan Linton; assis-
tant stage managers Suzie
Bryant and Alexandra
VanDrunen; light board
operator Anna Munson;
sound board operator Olivia
Bartuch; stage crew and shop
team members Kayli Price,
Erin Peckham, Addison
Russell, Lily VanDeraa,
Vincent Mauriello and Elliot
Anderson; and lighting
designers Annabelle Munson
and Vincent Mauriello.
Tickets for the show are
$6 online or $7 at the door.
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School students are excited
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Performances will be at 7
p.m. Friday and Saturday in
the high school auditorium.
Tickets are $5 for students
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and crew of nearly 30 stu-
dents who have been work-
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their performances.
“Our Town” is a 1938
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story of a fictional American
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