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Was.

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Last fall the Milford High School Theater
Workshop entertained audiences with the

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zany and vibrant Alice in Wonderland this
year the theater workshop decided to take

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on

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a completely different genre and subject
matter in playwright Allen who knows what

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I want to say but never will it's her more
difficult to find the play every year in

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the musical you know it's hard to find
places that have really big casts especially

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since you know we want everyone to be
involved in everyone to hopefully have like

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a moment to shine so that's an awesome
thing about this play is that there are

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actually seventy six like numbered speaking
roles along with this very big narrator

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role so my new reaction is like big cast
awesome and the fact that it does tackle

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all these difficult topics and that it's
based on interviews with real teenagers I

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thought was great actually because it is
something that hit hits close to home for

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the cast and it's something that I think
the audience will relate to as well and it

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is and I switch to do something that's
more modern contemporary even though it's

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been fun to do classics the last
few years but it just seemed like

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a nice switch and

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a good fit with the students we have this
year student director Matty me Horace was

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the first to discover the play and
she instantly felt it would be

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a good fit for her cast and an important
message to deliver to the school community

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I actually found this play last year at
the end of every year we do some research

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independently as leadership and find shows
that we like and I had found it online

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and brought it up to the group just on the
website that they sell it on like play

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scripts dot com and I saw it and I had
read another play by. Same Author

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a while ago that was really good but didn't
fit our cast very well but this one I

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saw and I immediately was drawn towards it
because it has all these topics that we

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don't really get to talk about

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a whole lot and there are things that are
really important to me and things that

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are important to I know other people in
the cast and other people in our school

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community and so I immediately jumped at
the idea of being able to present those

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things on stage because theater is such

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a cool opportunity to use our voice in our
community and in our school after years

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of working on stage as an actor this is
Mattie's first opportunity to assume the

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role of director so it's definitely an
adventure because I've done the other since

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I was like eight years old but
I've always been a part of

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a cast part of an ensemble and so it's
different to be on the other side of things

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kind of seeing it from like the other
perspective and having to figure out how to

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run rehearsals and who do I need to do
what when and being in charge of things as

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opposed to being in things but it's also
really cool because having that experience

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of knowing what it's like to be an actor
I can help them and kind of give them

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instruction and like what to do with
their character and help develop those

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characters from the outside our director
Mattie she's been really great she's been

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doing these woman activities at the beginning
of rehearsal which we usually do to

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try to help people get to know each other
but instead of just being regular fun or

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silly improv games you try to keep it
rooted in discussing some of the issues of

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the show getting the kids to start thinking
about their characters and how they can

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relate to them even if
they are you know speaking

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a monologue with believes that they don't
necessarily agree with which is true

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because this show covers

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a lot of things so it is an
exercise in you know in almost

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a more method sort of acting in which you're
trying to get in touch with your inner

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emotions to connect to the character in

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a way that doing something like this is
very different than say last year with

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Alice in Wonderland you know tapping into
your inner Mad Hatter or queen of hearts

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a little different then
doing a monologue as

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a character who's someone your age who's
really struggling with an eating disorder

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or. Or an abusive home or some of the other
serious tops and even some of the less

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serious topics that are covered
as well it's been an it has been

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a different process but the kids
of really embraced it with such

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a unique show has come unique challenges
for Mattie enter cast as they attempt to

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bring the many characters of what I
want to say but never will to life in

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a normal plot driven show every character
kind of has this long chance to develop

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their character so their character might
feel one way and one scene in another way

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or another scene and it's really clear to
see those motivations change throughout

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the show however in this play everyone has
like this much space to do all of that

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work and so if they have five minutes to
talk on stage or one minute to talk on

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stage they have a lot
of development to do in

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a very short period of time
so what I've been focusing on

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a lot as the director is letting those
characters shine through in the small

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moments they have by talking to the actors
about how their characters feel what are

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those motivations and how can we make that
character feel real and authentic even

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in a short period of time audience
members should be prepared for

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a lot of serious subject matter to be
addressed in this year's fall play but the

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cast and crew stress that there are some
lighthearted moments mixed in as well

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there's definitely moments of levity I would
say overall the the monologues tend to

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be

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a bit more in the serious side with there
certainly are moments of comic relief or

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ones that are you know of less serious than
some of the others because we do delve

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into some pretty heavy topics but overall
it's fairly well balanced throughout as

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well you're not going to spend the whole
time feeling like you need your tissues

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you know so the show what I want to say
but never will November sixth Friday Nov

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sixteenth and Saturday Nov seventeenth at
seven pm and Tuesday Nov eighteenth at

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two pm and tickets will be available at
the door on there also available for sale

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online through the Milford website
this year. So we're hoping to get

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a really big crowd and we do want to let
everyone know that we would say the show

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is rated P.G. Thirteen though there's

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a little you know with the with the. Matter
not really language wise but just for

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parents to be aware while it may not be

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a show with colorful costumes and big
production numbers what I want to say but

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never will is packed with poignant
storytelling that the cast and crew hope will

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provide audience members with

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a newfound understanding of the complexities
of teenage life I'm really hoping that

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they take the message to heart and really
see it as like this is the issues like

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these are issues that the people in
our school are dealing with it's

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a lot of things some of them are really
really hard things to be dealing with and

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nobody knows that they're happening because
we just don't talk about it and so I'm

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hoping that the audience is
able to see that and if it's

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a monologue towards parents and the way
the parents act I'm hoping the parents in

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the audience will be able to see that and
say like wow the things I'm doing is

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hurting my child or if it's

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a friend maybe they'll look at their friends
differently and be able to treat them

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differently and so for people in the
audience to be able to take that perspective

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and apply it to their lives and how they
treat others the title is what I want to

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say but never will and the premise was
the playwright did ask that question of

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numbers of teenagers and you know these
are the statements and thoughts and

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feelings that emerge so it might be good
for anyone seeing the show no matter what

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you think about like what are the things I
wish I could say and why aren't I saying

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them and for everyone to realize that
you know that saying as the saying goes

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everyone is going through

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a struggle even if you don't
see it so I really think it's

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a way for people to kind of think about
what their own might be and how to relate

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to other people in their lives who might
also be afraid to admit something about

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