Cast and Crew Announcement at Final Assembly

For the parents and family of our Cast and Crew for the 2017 Senior Production, the students will be officially presented to the College at our final assembly for 2016 on Friday 9 December. This will be a wonderful opportunity to recognise their achievement of being selected as part of the production and this exciting next phase of the Performing Arts development at Holy Cross College. All parents are welcome to attend.

An Unspeakable Cast and Crew

INTRODUCING THE CAST AND CREW FOR HOLY CROSS COLLEGE'S 2017 SENIOR SCHOOL PRODUCTION OF 'AN UNSPEAKABLE TRIUMPH OF SUPREME BRILLIANCE'

Front Centre: Jamie Evans (Dave)
Front: Jeighten Finch (Stage Hand), Anthony Menegola (Sound Designer), Gaby Van Der Linde (Hair and Makeup Designer), Calvin Thiel (Bob), Chloe Ryan (Tilly), John Botha (The Intern) and Laila Davies (Audrey).
Middle: Abbey'Lee Quantock (Loren), Zoe Paluszak (Svetlana Gustarfson/Student Assistant Director), Brianna Armstrong (Delilah), Lloyd Matias (Samson), Lexi Pether (Front of House), Chloe Andrews (Front of House) and Chardonnay Mitchell (Leticia Mordecai-Walker)
Back: Aimee Sorensen (Front of House), Breannah Rigoli (Saboteur), Jasmin Horsten (Saboteur), Jodie Murphy (Stage Manager), Maddison Sultana (Hair and Makeup Designer), Isobella McPherson (Front of House) and Alex Smilovitis (Assistant Stage Manager)
Absent: Daniel Docker (Media and Promotion Manager), Austen Staples (Assistant Stage Manager), Maria Bravo (Costume Manager), Tristan Hall (Stage Hand), Aran Burke (Lighting Designer) and Michelle Karuga (Costume Assistant)

Challenges Ahead

The exciting part of a Senior School Production is that we can lay down challenges that we haven't done before. We are very excited to have acquired the services of Julia Moody, who is Head of Vocal Studies in Acting at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Julia will be running three workshops with the cast on mastering the distinctive Minnesotan accent, which is where Unspeakable Triumph is set. Accents which are not native are tricky to master and our cast will be able to challenge themselves to nail these accents as part of their colourful characters. See if you can master it!

Sneak Peek of Unspeakable Triumph Talent

If you would like a sneak peek of some of the amazing talent of the cast of An Unspeakable Triumph of Supreme Brilliance, then be sure to come along and see them perform in Ellenbrook Theatre Company's Production of Cinderella this December! Lloyd Matias, Chardonnay Mitchell, John Botha and Breannah Rigoli will be part of the Cast and Mr Chris McRae has directed the show and Mr Guy Jackson will be involved behind the scenes. Former students Giordarna Rigoli (2014) and Max Hughes (2016) are also part of the show. Come along for what is set to be a magical experience with a great HCC representation!

UNSPEAKABLE TRIUMPH OF SUPREME BRILLIANCE CAST AND CREW ANNOUNCEMENT

We are delighted to officially announce the Cast and Crew for the 2017 Senior School Production of 'An Unspeakable Triumph of Supreme Brilliance'. We had a lot of talent this year and are very excited with the team we have assembled for next year's show! We look forward to presenting the College's first Senior Production to the Holy Cross community next year!

CAST

SAMSON: The Flamboyant Director	IMMANUEL MATIAS
DAVE: The Surprisingly Normal Playwright	JAMES EVANS
AUDREY: The 7th Grade English Teacher	LAILA DAVIES
TILLY: Loves doing theatre. The epitome of Minnesota nice.	CHLOE RYAN
DELILAH: The grand dame of North Central Minnesota Theatre	BRIANNA ARMSTRONG
LOREN: The Stage Manager	ABBEY’LEE QUANTOCK
BOB: The overweight, non stereotypical male lead.	CALVIN THIEL
SVETLANA GUSTARFSON: The Auteur, Artistic Director of the Red Barn Players.	ZOPHIA PALUSZAK
LETITIA MORDERCAI-WALKER: The wife of the third richest man in the world.	CHARDONNAY MITCHELL
THE RED BARN SABOTEURS: The cunning members of the Red Barn Players, out to sabotage Moss River	BREANNAH RIGOLI JASMIN HORSTEN
THE INTERN: The inept, bumbling, theatre loving Moss River intern.	JOHN BOTHA

CREW

STUDENT ASSISTANT DIRECTOR	ZOPHIA PALUSZAK
STAGE MANAGER	JODIE MURPHY
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS	AUSTEN STAPLES ALEX SMILOVITIS
STAGE HANDS	JEIGHTEN FINCH TRISTAN HALL
COSTUME MANAGER	MARIA BRAVO-ECHEVARRIA
COSTUME ASSISTANT	MICHELLE KARUGA
HAIR AND MAKEUP DESIGNERS	GABRIELLA ROSE VAN DER LINDE MADDISON SULTANA
MEDIA AND PROMOTION MANAGER	DANIEL DOCKER
LIGHTING DESIGNER	ARAN BURKE
SOUND DESIGNER	ANTHONY MENEGOLA
FRONT OF HOUSE MANAGERS	AIMEE SORENSEN LEXI PETHER ISOBELLA MCPHERSON CHLOE ANDREWS

Cast and Crew In Progress

Auditions and interviews for the 2017 Senior School Production of 'An Unspeakable Triumph of Supreme Brilliance' were a great success with a large number of Year 10, 11 and 12 students expressing interest in the production. We will now begin the process of confirming the cast and crew with production and leadership staff and students will be notified very soon of the outcome. The full cast and crew will be officially announced at the end of term assembly in Week 9.

An Unspeakable Triumph of Supreme Brilliance Teaser

#Production Hashtag#

Introducing the official hashtag which will be used to help promote Holy Cross College's 2017 Senior School Production. All media and promotion will feature:

#UnspeakableTriumphOfHCC

Cast Auditions and Crew Interviews

An Unspeakable Triumph of Supreme Brilliance will be Holy Cross College's seventh production, following the huge success of The Happiest Days of Your Life this year. It will be the College's first Senior School Production with students in Years 10-12 making up the whole cast and crew.

The journey to #UnspeakableTriumph17 begins this week with Crew interviews for the following management roles: Stage Manager, Assistant Stage Manager, Sound, Lighting, Hair and Makeup, Media and Promotion, Front of House and Student Assistant Director.

Next week will see cast auditions taking place with over 50 students signed up for auditions and interviews across two weeks.

We look forward to this process and can't wait to see the talent HCC's Senior School has to offer!

About the Playwright and Accent Coach

DON ZOLIDIS
(Writer of 'An Unspeakable Triumph of Supreme Brilliance')

Don Zolidis is an American playwright, screenwriter and secondary school teacher currently residing in Texas. He writes dramas and comedies but is more known for the latter. As of July 2015, 78 of Don's plays had been published and performed over 7500 times in 47 countries.

Professionally, his work has appeared at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Phoenix Theatre, The Bloomington Playwrights Project, Dallas HUB Theatre, the Purple Rose Theatre, The Victory Theatre Center, Mirror Stage Ensemble, Expanded Arts NYC, Tinfish Theatre, Studio 360, and many other places. 

(Information courtesy of www.donzolidis.com)

JULIA MOODY

(Head of Vocal Studies- Acting at Western Australian Academy 

of Performing Arts)

Julia Moody has a Bachelor of Arts from Curtin University (Perth), a Graduate Diploma in Voice Studies from NIDA (Sydney), is a fully accredited Associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, and did her actor training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the United Kingdom. Julia has performed as an actor in Theatre, Film, TV, and Radio with companies right across Australia. She has worked as a Voice trainer and Consultant in the professional media with SBS TV and Radio since 1994, and with various other companies such as Channel 10,Open Channel, Public Radio News, 5UV and 6PR. She has run specially designed voice training sessions for professional speakers in all domains: the corporate arena; education; Theatre and Film; medical professionals and many others.

Julia has lectured in Voice at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Drama, the University of Ballarat Academy of Performing Arts, and is currently Head of Voice in the Acting Department of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University.

(Information courtesy of www.waapa.ecu.edu.au)

Holy Cross Producing the Australian Premiere of 'Unspeakable Triumph'

It is with great excitement that we reveal that Holy Cross College's 2017 Senior School Production of 'An Unspeakable Triumph of Supreme Brilliance' will be the very first time the show has been produced outside the United States and will technically be the Australian premiere of the show which was published by playwright Don Zolidis in 2014. Below is a list of previous productions.

Senior School Production 2017

We are very excited to announce that 2017 will see a new era for Holy Cross College Productions with the first of our Senior School Productions being staged. This will be the first year of a new system which will see Senior School Productions in odd years and Whole School Productions in even years.

Next year's production will be the madcap comedy 'An Unspeakable Triumph of Supreme Brilliance' by Don Zolidis and will be performed by students in Years 10, 11 and 12.

"The Moss River Community Players are pretty okay settling for theatrical mediocrity, until one day they receive a stunning offer: an insanely wealthy woman is offering a ten million dollar prize for the best community theatre show in North Central Minnesota. The catch? They only have two days to put it together! All heck breaks loose as the cast tries their best to present An Unspeakable Triumph of Supreme Brilliance, but with one actor deathly afraid of the stage, another trying to dominate the show, and a set about to collapse, will the riches slip out of their hands before curtain call?"

We are very fortunate to have secured the services of Julia Moody, Head of Vocal Studies in Acting at WAAPA to come in and run accent workshops to assist our cast in developing the challenging Minnesotan accent.

This is set to be an exciting and contemporary production which will have a more mature feel but still appeal to all ages.

Mr Chris McRae
Drama Teacher

HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE PRODUCTION WRAPS FOR 2016

The 2016 College Production of ‘The Happiest Days of Your Life’ wrapped on Saturday night with a sensational final show concluding what was a highly successful performance week. The four show run began on Thursday with a matinee for residents from Aegis Aged Care Ellenbrook (The Pines and Hermitage) along with students and staff from Swan Valley Anglican Community School. Our special guests enjoyed a wonderful morning tea prepared by Mrs Lewis and were very grateful to be invited to the show. SVACS Drama Teacher Meredith Corr gave a glowing review, saying “the enjoyment of each role was obvious onstage and each student brough their own quirks and personalities to the characters. Well done on a very slick production”. The cast and crew followed up their razor sharp matinee with their first evening show which was a huge success.

Two more evening shows followed on Friday and Saturday evenings to sellout audiences and the show was described by various audience members as being “hilarious”, “the best production Holy Cross has ever done” and Vice Principal Peter Collins stated “I have never heard an audience laugh so much at a school production”. The evening shows had an amazing energy and the cast were lifted by the audience’s engagement with the quick witted script. The performance run ended with an outstanding performance on the Saturday evening.

Huge congratulations must go to our talented cast: Max Hughes, James Evans, Calvin Thiel, Brianna Armstrong, Chardonnay Mitchell, Zoe Paluszak, Chloe Ryan, Josh Gethin, Lloyd Matias, Angela Gethin, John Paul Botha, Ben Sorensen and Beth Robinson.

Big thanks also go to our dedicated student crew: Jack Hammon, Kayla Castrianni, Casey Van Der Merwe, Kayla Collins, Rachel Joubert, Aran Burke, Alex Smilovitis and Will Evans.

As always, the production wouldn’t be possible without the dedication of College staff. A massive thank you the core team of Mr Chris McRae, Miss Jackie Collender, Miss Edel Maher and Mrs Emma Robinson for their amazing dedication to the show this year. 

The support staff team has also been instrumental this year and thanks must go to the following people for their hard work throughout the process: Mr Matt Smyth (Set), Mrs Colleen Azzopardi (Costume/Make Up/Hair), Mrs Jacqui Sanders (Budget/Front of House), Mrs Sarah Brown (Catering), Mrs Carolyn Jess (Marketing), Mr Chris Gooch (Media).

We were also lucky this year to have several external volunteers. So thanks must go to Mrs Rebecca McRae, Mr Ryan Lenard and Miss Laura Evans. 

Thanks to staff who gave up their time to supervise either at rehearsals or on performance nights: Mrs Anna Amatulli, Mrs Diane Oleynik, Mr Liam Benton, Mrs Toni Strong, Mrs Dorota Fretwell, Miss Sara O’Neill, Mrs Margaret MacMahon, Miss Kelly Bond, Mrs Carla Pastorelli and Miss Emma Pritchard. 

The production culture at Holy Cross College is as strong as ever and with some exciting new facilities on the horizon, we are set to expand even further in 2017. Well done to all involved in ‘The Happiest Days of Your Life’ in 2016. Until next year…..homo in omnibus!!

Mr Chris McRae (Production Coordinator and Drama Teacher)

Happiest Days of Your Life Opens To Rousing Reception

The 2016 College Production of 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' took to the stage for the first time on Thursday for two big performances.

Students went into hair and make up at 10am in preparation for the opening matinee. Energy was high and the anticipation of performance week was evident.

Miss Jackie Collender with Year 10 student Chardonnay Mitchell (Miss Gossage)

Miss Edel Maher with Year 10 student Brianna Armstrong (Miss Whitchurch)

Holy Cross welcomed residents from Aegis Aged Care facilities The Pines and Hermitage along with staff and students from Swan Valley Anglican Community School for the opening show. The residents enjoyed a wonderful morning tea, prepared by our amazing Cafe Coordinator Mrs Lewis.

The Happiest Days Set

College Principal Ms Mandy Connor with residents from Aegis Aged Care

The performance standard was particularly high, with students breathing life into the hilarious characters of Hilary Hall and St Swithin's Schools. The feedback from the audience was very positive and both residents and students enjoyed the performance thoroughly.

Several hours later, Opening Night was upon us and after a superb dinner (again, thanks to Mrs Lewis), students were back in hair and make up and preparations began for the first evening performance. The audience on Thursday night received the show particularly well with some audience feedback including: "Absolutely hilarious" and "The best and funniest play Holy Cross has done". Students left on Thursday night with the adrenaline of a truly wonderful performance running through them.

Miss Gossage (Chardonnay Mitchell) strips for games behind the oblivious Billings (Calvin Thiel)  

Tassell (James Evans), Pond (Max Hughes) and Billings (Calvin Thiel) attempt to hatch a plan to keep the parents in the dark. 

Mrs Peck (Chloe Ryan) and Rev Peck (Josh Gethin) arrive at Hilary Hall to pay a visit to their daughter Julia. 

Mrs Sowter (Angela Gethin) and Mr Sowter (Immanuel Matias) are not impressed with the 'feminine influences' at Hilary Hall. 

Pond (Max Hughes), Miss Whitchurch (Brianna Armstrong), Miss Harper (Zophia Palusazk), Tassell (James Evans) and Miss Gossage (Chardonnay Mitchell) hope for good news from the Ministry. 

Friday evening saw a packed house for the third show and what an audience it was! Jokes flew thick and fast and the cast fed off the energy of the audience. College Vice Principal Peter Collins was quoted as saying "I have never heard an audience laugh so much" at a school production. The students were on a major high after the Friday show as were the staff.

Barbara Cahoun (Bethany Robinson) is all smiles for Miss Harper (Zophia Paluszak)

Hillary Hall and St Swithin's will now welcome the Meadowvale Academy for Backwards Boys and Forward Girls. 

Pond (Max Hughes) introduces Tassell (James Evans) to the unimpressed Miss Whitchurch (Brianna Armstrong)

Hopcroft Minor (Ben Sorensen) attempts to strike a deal with Rainbow (John Paul Botha)

Students are now gearing up for their final performance of Happiest Days, which will be presented to a full house on Saturday night. Special guests will include members of the College Senior Leadership team and adjudicators from the Drama Production category of the Catholic Performing Arts Festival. The students are set to go out with a bang and wrap up what has been an amazing eight month process which has included many laughs and resulted in some fantastic friendships. It will be a bittersweet night for our six Year 12 students who will see the curtain fall on their final Holy Cross College Production and their Secondary School Drama journey.

2016 Year 12's Kayla Collins (Make Up Manager), Casey Van Der Merwe (Artistic Manager), Rachel Joubert (Sound Manager), Jack Hammon (Stage Manager), Kayla Castrianni (Props Manager) and Max Hughes (Pond) with Mr Chris McRae (Production Coordinator and Drama Teacher)

Production Week Arrives!!

It's that time of year again and production week has rolled around. We are now only two days out from our first performance of 'The Happiest Days of Your Life', Holy Cross College's sixth College Production!

Sunday saw the the bump-in of the stage, final set pieces, lighting and sound equipment, which was expertly handled once again by our tech extraordinaire Ryan Lenard, from Getting Technical. Students were straight into hair and make up in preparation for our first full tech/dress run at 10:30. Overall, it was absolutely fantastic to see the whole show come together for the first time in what was a long but very rewarding day.

We now turn our attention to performance week as we gear up for four shows across Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Logistical details for the shows are as follows

Matinee Performance: Thursday 16 June
Doors Open 11:45am
Performance Starts: 12:00pm
Interval Approx 1:00pm
Show Concludes Approx 2:15pm

Evening Performances: Thursday 16, Friday 17 and Saturday 18 June
Doors Open: 6:15pm
Performance Starts: 6:30pm
Interval Approx 7:45pm
Show Concludes Approx 8:45pm

Saturday Evening is now SOLD OUT with Friday evening close to full capacity as well. There are still plenty of seats remaining for Thursday evening which will be a Student Special night with all student tickets being $7.

We look forward to what is set to be a very busy but exciting week ahead and look forward to presenting the show to the Holy Cross College Community!

Mr Chris McRae
Production Coordinator and Co-Director

18 Days and Counting!

The Happiest Days of Your Life is just 18 days away from it's first performance and opening night! Here is what you need to know about this year's production

- Doors open for the matinee at 11:45am for a 12:00pm start and 6:15pm for a 6:30pm start for the evening shows.

- Programs will be available for a gold coin donation at the door.

- HCC Hospitality students will be running the intervals in the College Cafe and refreshments will be available for sale.

- Tickets are still available and can either be purchased online at www.trybooking.com/183142 or with cash on Wednesday mornings in College Admin.

- Entry will be through Victoria Square 1 and the performance will take place in the Victoria Square Da Vinci Space.

- Students will be available for photos at the conclusion of each show. Photos taken by our photography students will be available upon request from Week 9.

FUN FACTS

- Five of this year's Year 12's were involved in the College's inaugural production of Alice in Wonderland in 2011: Jack Hammon (White Rabbit), Max Hughes (Chef), Rachel Joubert (Che-Sha-Puss), Casey Van Der Merwe (Dormouse) and Kayla Collins (Poster Design)

- The name of the production is only mentioned once in the whole play

- Only two cast members (Beth Robinson and JP Botha) are participating in their very first Holy Cross College Production.

- The school colours were inspired by the maroon and gold of Gryffindor House from Harry Potter and the Blue and Silver from St Trinian's.

- From auditions to performance, the whole process has run for eight months.

- James Evans is playing an adult character for the first time in his fourth production.

- Zophia Paluszak and James Evans played siblings in 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe' and now are each other's potential love interests in this year's production.

3 WEEKS TO GO

The Happiest Days of Your Life will hit the stage at Holy Cross College Ellenbrook in just under 3 weeks with opening night on Thursday 16 June.

TICKETS
Tickets are still available from www.trybooking.com/183142 and can be purchased online. There will be cash sales each Wednesday morning leading up to the show in the College Admin. Seats remaining are as follows:

Thursday 16 June 12:00pm: 33

Thursday Evening: 57

Friday Evening: 35

Saturday: 22

PRODUCTION WEEK SCHEDULE

Thursday Matinee: Doors open at 11:45am for 12:00pm show

Thursday, Friday and Saturday Evenings: Doors open at 6:15pm for 6:30pm show

- Cast members will be available for meet and greet and photographs at the conclusion of each show. - Photos taken by school photographers will be available upon request from Week 9 onwards.

- Saturday night will also include presentations at the conclusion of the show

INTERVALS AND PROGRAMS

Refreshments will be available for purchase from the College Cafe at the interval for each show. Proceeds will go back into the Performing Arts budget and will assist with the development of the 2017 Production. Keepsake programs will also be available in the main foyer before each show for a gold coin donation. 

ELLENBROOK ADVOCATE

The production has been featured in this week's Ellenbrook Advocate and can also be viewed online. Please see the post below for details. 

We are looking forward to what should be another fantastic production and are very proud of what our HCC Drama students have achieved once again this year!

See you at the show!

The Production Team

Ellenbrook Advocate- Wednesday 25 May

Happiest Days Hits The News

The lead cast of this year's production of 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' is featured in this week's Ellenbrook Advocate Newspaper. Max Hughes, Jamie Evans, Brianna Armstrong, Chardonnay Mitchell and Zoe Paluszak met with the Advocate photographer and Holy Cross marketing coordinator Mrs Carolyn Jess several weeks ago to put the feature together and the result is great to see. The article can be viewed online at the link below and will feature in the edition published on Wednesday 25 May.

http://www.communitynews.com.au/the-advocate/news/holy-cross-college-students-putting-on-production-of-the-happiest-days-of-your-life/

Set First Look

The set for 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' is coming together nicely and will be completed this week. Using only half the usual area of Victoria Square, this set has been designed to give the play and intimate feel and helps make chaotic scenes even more chaotic! The set has been built by Mr Matt Smyth with painting and designs by Year 12 student Casey Van Der Merwe. We are thrilled with how it has worked out and it is our simplest yet most effective set to date.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Get ready to laugh, cry and cringe as HCC Presents the comedic farce 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' in just over 4 weeks time! Tickets are on sale NOW and can be purchased by logging onto www.trybooking.com/183142 or by scanning the QR code on the poster below. Ticket prices are as follows:

ADULT $12
STUDENT/CONCESSION: $10
CHILD: $7
CHILD UNDER 5: FREE

Due to the high demand already shown for tickets, we may be adding some extra seats to the Saturday evening but this will be subject to space and will be confirmed in the next week. We look forward to presenting what is shaping up to be a truly hilarious performance and welcoming you to the sixth annual HCC Production!

The Production Team

Happiest Days Happenings Week 3 Autumn Term

With five weeks to go, the cast and crew of the 2016 College Production 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' are beginning the feel the excitement and anticipation of performance week. The first few weeks back has seen some exciting developments.

SET 
Mr Matt Smyth has worked tirelessly to complete the panels which will act as our backdrop this year and they look fantastic. Our Artistic Coordinator, Year 12 student Casey Van Der Merwe is now hard at work with a band of helpers, painting these panels to turn them into the staff common room of Hilary Hall.

PROPS AND COSTUMES
All cast members now have their costumes and a huge thanks for Miss Jackie Collender and Miss Edel Maher for their work in sourcing these and to Mrs Colleen Azzopardi for working on alterations. The last of the small props are now coming together and are making the whole set up look quite realistic which is very exciting.

ELLENBROOK ADVOCATE
As in previous years, the Ellenbrook Advocate will be running a feature on the production. Their photographer and reporter will be visiting HCC this week and the feature will run next Wednesday 18 May.

TICKETS
Tickets for the show will go on sale next Monday at 9am. Please see the post below for all the details.

PERFORMANCES
Happiest Days will be performed across four shows. We will be joined by the residents of Aegis Ellenbrook and some students from Swan Valley Anglican Community School for the Thursday matinee on th 16 June at 12:00pm. The remainder of the seats will be open to the community. We will then present three evening performances on Thursday 16, Friday 17 and Saturday 18 June at 6:30pm.

Each performance will include a 20minute interval, during which refreshments will be available in the College Cafe with proceeds going back into HCC Drama and Production.

Students will be available at the conclusion of each show for photo opportunities.

We look forward to what the next five weeks will bring!!

The Production Team 

2016 Production Ticket Sales

The 2016 Holy Cross College Production is only 6 weeks away from hitting the stage and tickets will be going on sale for the four performances at 9am on Monday 16 May. Tickets can be purchased in several ways:

1. By going to www.trybooking.com/183142 and booking online

2. By scanning the QR code on the poster below or the ones on display around the college with your smartphone or tablet.

3. Limited tickets will be available for cash sales only at the door on the night (subject to availability)

TICKET PRICES
Adults - $12.00
Students/Concessions: $10.00
Children: $7.00
Under 5's: Free

Refreshments will also be available for purchase in the College Cafe during the interval. 

Due to the staging of this year's show, there will be 50 seats available for the Thursday matinee performance and 80 seats available for the evening shows so make sure you book early to avoid disappointment. 

We are looking forward to presenting 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' to the College community very soon!

The Production Team

HAPPIEST DAYS GOES ON CAMP!

On Friday 29 April, the cast for the 2016 Holy Cross College Production of ‘The Happiest Days of Your Life’ departed for Swanleigh for our first ever production camp. The camp was designed as a weekend of intensive rehearsals, workshops, character building and teamwork activities. We were also lucky to have two guest artists, Krisha and Quaid visit on the Saturday to assist our students with characterisation and stage technique. Across the weekend, the students worked particularly hard, developing their character relationships and pushing themselves to memorise some tricky lines of dialogue. Rehearsals were broken up by some entertaining conversations at meal times, a movie night on the Friday and a quiz night on the Saturday. As we enter the final stretch before show week in Week 8, the Production Camp was a fantastic and fun learning experience which gave cast, crew and staff to really band together and work as a team. A huge thanks to the core team of Miss Jackie Collender, Miss Edel Maher and Miss Emma Robinson for their amazing work over the weekend. We now can’t wait to present ‘The Happiest Days of Your Life' to the College community next month.

Mr Chris McRae

Production Coordinator and Co-Director

Happiest Days Happenings- Week 6 Summer Term

REHEARSALS
The rehearsal process is in full swing now with blocking now complete for the whole of Act 1 and the majority of Act 2. The planning process will continue for Act 3 over the next few weeks before our first full act run through's at Week 9's weekend rehearsal. The cast are well and truly finding their characters and the expression is really starting to come together. Relationships are building between this tight knit group and rehearsals so far have been great fun. We hope for this to continue as the weeks go on.



BEHIND THE SCENES WEEK 6

Featuring Ben Sorensen (Year 8) who plays Hopcroft Minor, a mischievous student of Hilary Hall

PRODUCTION CAMP

A new addition to this year's process will be our very first Production Camp. The cast and crew will be spending a weekend at Swanleigh Residential College in Middle Swan. This will give us the chance to do some intensive workshopping as we approach performance week and should be a fantastic and fun learning experience for all involved. We are also looking forward to welcoming guest speaker and actor Quaid Kirchner from Perth's 'The Actor's Hub' who will be providing our cast with some tips for performing and stagecraft.

TICKETS AND PERFORMANCE DATES

Ticket sales will commence mid next term and more details will be released closer to the time. The Performance dates are as follows. Please be aware that there will only be 50 seats available for the Thursday matinee and 80 for each evening performance to fit in with the 'intimate' style of this year's show.
THURSDAY 16 JUNE 12:00PM MATINEE (50 SEATS ONLY)
THURSDAY 16 JUNE 6:30PM EVENING PERFORMANCE
FRIDAY 17 JUNE 6:30PM EVENING PERFORMANCE
SATURDAY 18 JUNE 6:30PM EVENING PERFORMANCE

Mr Chris McRae
Production Director

Happiest Days Happenings

The process for bringing the 2016 College Production of 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' is well under way with rehearsals occurring twice a week. The cast are already beginning to learn lines and are working on both the challenging text and their delivery of the highly comedic material. Props and Costumes are being sourced and our Senior Students are doing a fantastic job in these early stages as part of their lead crew roles.

OFFICIAL PRODUCTION POSTER
Below is a work in progress version of what is going to be the official poster artwork design for the production. The poster has been designed by Year 10 student Darrell Chiu.

CAST DEVELOPMENTS

Due to student movements, we are delighted to welcome two students to the production cast for 2016. Chloe Ryan (Year 10) will be stepping into the role of Mrs Peck and John Paul Botha (Year 9) will be doubling the role of Rainbow with current cast member Adam Boyd (Year 9).

BEHIND THE SCENES

This year, the behind the scenes footage will be done from a cast/crew perspective. Each week (starting next week), you will be given an insight into all things 'Happiest Days' and be able to enjoy an interview with a different cast and crew member each week. Stay tuned to this blog!

TICKETS

Tickets for the three public performances (Thursday 16, Friday 17 and Saturday 18 June) will go on sale next term. Tickets will sell fast so make sure you get in early once tickets are on sale!

STAFFING

I would like to express a huge thank you to core staff members Miss Jackie Collender and Miss Edel Maher for their hard work on the show so far. Their commitment and enthusiasm has been wonderful and much appreciated.

Mr Chris McRae
Production Director