BLAHHHHH, WEE WOO, HMMM, AHH, OHHH, EHHHH. These are the sounds booming inside when walking through the big cream colored doors that lead into the theatre.

Walking down the ramped aisle you see kids lying on the scratched and scuffed stage floor on their backs, making all sorts noises.

Students move all around the stage in preparation for a the first theatre rehearsal for the upcoming play One Man Two Guvnors.

A few heads look up at the woosh of the door opening, but most just continue with their vocal warm ups. Everyone is dressed in loose, comfortable clothing so they can easily move around.

Onlookers sit in the front row of the house, in a blue, fuzzy upholstered seats. Besides all of the strange noises going on, lots of laughing and joking is going on backstage.

As soon as Leslie Coats, the director, walks in everyone forms a circle around her. She starts to explain what scenes they are going to practice that night, and then she starts to lead them around the semicircle stage showing them the blocking, where and when people and props are supposed to be, of the play.

After this, they start the first scene. It’s a little rough at first, Coats interrupts several times to make changes to the blocking or give acting advice. They practice one scene several times, re-doing the way they say their lines or practicing the blocking.

Every once in awhile Coats shout or scream “YES” or “THAT’S PERFECT”. Occasionally she’ll exclaim that she has a perfect idea for a certain scene, and she’ll then proceed to act out a movement or say a line. It all looks a bit like a mad scientist’s lab, with the scientist working on some crazy experiment.
Everyone seems to be working hard and having a blast at the same time.

“[Rehearsals] can be rough sometimes, but they are a lot of fun,” said Bea Pomatto, junior.