Lights, Camera, Action!

 Through November 15-17, the theater team at Anderson High School presented their play The Grimm Brothers Spectaculathon. The play presented a series of fairy tales in their original written form by the Grimm brothers, but spiked with a modern twist. 

Wilheim and Jacob Grimm were brothers who worked as collectors and resellers of fairy tale stories around the 1700s-1800s. Most people know their fairy tales from childhood movies creating their own adaptations of the fictional stories. 

Death, modern teenage issues, and relationship problems were just some of the themes covered in the show. 

One actress who participated in the show was junior Chloe Hinton, she played Snow White and Tiana.

“The plot of the play is multiple fairy tales in one, making it all collectively funny. There’s a lot of 4th-wall breaking and audience interaction in the show,” explained Hinton. 

She described her character Snow White as “an emancipated princess” and Princess [Tiana] as “a girl who strives for hot looking men and wouldn’t want to kiss a frog, unless he’s hot”.  

Fairy tales are one of the most commonly used bases for scripts in theater plays. But the AHS theater team wanted to present something more complex and comedic with these popular stories.

It was clear the sole purpose of the show was to entertain the audience with laughter. There was There was even acting from within the audience, creating a more comical experience. 

For visual effects, the room was filled with a series of flashing lights and creative sets of a house made of candy and even a Rapunzel’s tower. These flashing lights had actually become the cause of a seizure, which took place within the first 5 minutes of the show. 

Though unfortunate accidents delayed the show, it served as a stellar success among audiences.