She Kills Monsters on Stage at SHS this Weekend

The Scarsdale Drama Club will present a student-directed play, "She Kills Monsters," on Friday January 24 and Saturday January 25 at 7:30 pm in the SHS auditorium. Written by Qui Nguyen the play is a comedy set in the fantasy world of a game of Dungeons and Dragons. The script addresses serious issues such as bullying and crushes in an entertaining and adventurous drama.

The show is directed by seniors Bianca Rogoff and Brianna Orrico, with assistance from sophomore Victoria Di Salvo. We spoke to Rogoff about the play, the nasty weather that closed school this week and the challenges of presenting a fantasy world within a play. Here is what she said: "This is my first experience directing and I'm loving it. It's truly phenomenal watching words on paper transform into a visual and artistic representation that the director conceptualized. It's definitely a lot of work but it's absolutely worth it. Today we had our final tech rehearsal and it was unbelievable watching the lighting, acting, and sound come together. It truly feels like a show."

She continued, "I think that the biggest challenge about putting on a show about gaming is the ability for the audience born in such a technological time to grasp the concept of what Dungeons and Dragons is. It's hard for someone who's so used to an automatic game on a screen to conceptualize what an interactive role-playing game would be like."

Will the winter storm hamper the cast? Rogoff said, "The winter storm did not actually effect the show greatly at all. We missed our second day of tech rehearsal but we made it up today and will have two dress rehearsals tomorrow instead of one. In fact, I think that we will be more than ready for this coming weekend. Steve Bogardus and the whole tech team have been more than helpful when it came to scheduling and understanding how long certain things will take. It's been phenomenal workings with them."

Castmembers include:

• Agnes: Jenna Evans
• Tilly: Megan Reynolds
• Vera: Rebecca Primoff
• Chuck: Sam Kaplan
• Orcus: Josh Ben-Ami
• Miles/Narrator: Chris D'Silva
• Lilith/Narrator: Katie Kearns
• Kaliope/Narrator: Nick Cioffi
• Evil Tina: Kimmy Rothberg
• Evil Gabbi: Alexa Winowsky
• Farrah: Caroline Donat
• Steve: Cameron Hawkins

The performances will take place at 7:30 pm on January 24th and 25th in the high school auditorium. Student and seniors can see the show for $10 and adult tickets are $20. Reserve seats here: