Fright Night Recap
As the spooky season comes to an end and the holiday season starts to sleigh through, let’s take a recap on one of the scariest plays of them all: “Fright Night.” This was the second play of the 2024-2025 school year that the Moeller Theatre program performed with their newest director, Mr. Girard. This play was perfect for the spooky season as it was performed the day before and on Halloween night. Along with the play performing on Halloween night, students were encouraged to wear Halloween costumes to make Halloween night more festive and spookier.
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As you read more, the Crusader interviewed Nathan Otten (shown in the picture above), who was an actor in the play as a storyteller. “Fright Night” had three spooky stories being told in the first act. These stories weren’t acted out; rather, they were table-read stories, meaning the actors read straight to the audience like a bedtime story. The first story was a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, the second story was about a guy stranded on a deserted island who had to commit cannibalism according to his diary, and finally, the third story, which Nathan read to the audience, was about a father who wants to get back at his wife because he was unhappy with their relationship.
Now, in the second act, there was actual acting, and the Moeller Theatre program acted out the “Halloween” movie. If you remember “Page to Stage,” the first play of the 2024-2025 school year, it was like “Fright Night” with the aspect of table-read stories and not acting them out. Although Nathan was in the play, he thought the play was a bit too long with telling all the stories and then acting out the “Halloween” movie. He said, “Everyone can agree that it was long; all the cast members and Mr. Girard mentioned it. I think it’s due to the fact that Mr. Girard is new and this being a new style. I think overall there is definitely improvement that could be done, but I don’t think it was anybody’s fault. We haven’t done something like ‘Fright Night’ before, and there could be some kinks to work out.”
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