I am sure, as many as have good beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.
And with those words, spoken for the last time on Saturday night, we ended the run of As You Like It.Our last show, performed to a packed house of teachers, friends, parents, and members of the Easthampton community, was as lively as opening night. The wear and tear of two weeks of performance and late tech nights was nowhere to be seen.
We gathered yesterday for strike- the tradition of breaking down the set, returning the theatre to neutral and preparing it for the next performance. While strike is always bittersweet, last night offered the cast and crew the important opportunity to be together again and say goodbye to the production.
Destiny Nwafor ’17 and Noah Jackson’ 15 work on preserving the flower arch used in the production.Josh Holmberg ’18 and Henning Fischel ’17 take apart what was once the rock wall.Leeanna Albanese ’16, Josh Holmberg ’18, Evan Cavanaugh ’15, and Calvin Ticknor-Swanson ’16 take a break from their hard work to ham it up.Tina Zhang ’15 looks cheerful as she takes on the painstaking task of removing all the vines from the platforms.Technical Director Charles Raffetto, Eason Law ’17 and Francois Kaeppelin’17 pump the water out of the pond.In case you wondered how no one slipped onstage during the show- we bought out the Pioneer Valley’s supply of grip tape.Our best review came in from a seven-year old who said the play was “better than Disney World.” Soon this showed up on the whiteboard backstage.The Williston stage stands bare- ready for what comes next.
