Heartwarming…Thrilling…Suspenseful…
BY: LILLY BURRUS
Staff Writer
Lights, camera, action! Meramec’s theater department has put the finishing touches on their first quarter play titled “Dead Man’s Cell Phone.”
Actor Brendan Bute talked about his role and what the play entails.
“‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’ is a play about a dead guy in a cafe and this woman, Gene, finds him lying there dead with a constantly ringing cell phone and so she takes his cell phone and she goes on this crazy adventure with it,” Bute said.
With this being Bute’s second year in the theater program, he has sharpened his skills and was able to play a bigger role in this production.
“My role in the play is Dwight, and he’s the love interest in the show,” Bute said.
Lots of work goes into each production, with the season starting before the school year even begins.
“Last year, when we were done with all our shows, we had a banquet and they announced all the shows we were doing for this season and the people directing them,” Bute said.
Once the play is announced, the rest of the process moves in small steps and pieces to put everything together.
“The director for this one, Michelle Rebollo, makes choices of people who she wants, and then contacts our supervisor, Rachel, and says, ‘hey these are the people that we want.’ Then Rachel contacts them asking if they want the role and they either say yes or no,” Bute said.
With all the work that goes into a production, there must be a lot of communication between the members.
Of the community, Bute said: “I like how welcoming it is, the theater community is open to accepting people. It doesn’t really push people away, if you know what you are doing and you have the skills, people don’t really care who you are. They kind of just let you in and do what you need to do.”
