A very fantastic Theatre children show I attended at Prescott South Middle School in Cookeville, TN. The name of the show is “Into the woods” , directed by Mckenzie Gentry, Ashley Danielle Francis, and Ethan Copeland. It was most likely very familiar with stores i been hearing in my childhood. So even if I didn’t really get the idea of some scenes, it wasn’t hard to figure out what is going on based on my past knowledge. It took me almost one hour watching it all, which really made my day.
As I said earlier, the show was so familiar to me. Since my childhood I knew about the Witch that locked up the young long hair girl for long years, and that boy with his lovely cow, and another boy who been helping out his mom to have back her child as the witch commanded. Also the story of that cute girl who was going to visit her grandmother and provide food to her when the wolf came and end up eating her and the grandmother until a guy came and get them out by his knife! the famous story of Cinderella also was there, that poor and pathetic young girl that was prohibited to do lot of things and treated like a made while other girls (her cousins) were having fun and enjoying their life. Until the prince fall in love with her and find her after hard long searching by her famous “shoe” .
I loved the show so much. I loved it, because of the great way of connecting many stories in one. I loved it, because of the actors way of communication by singing the most of the play. I loved it, because of seeing those children on their “spring age” acting and singing in a very high level of acting. I was really impressed of how the kids made as perfect as it was. I like the way of telling the story, for a women was telling this tales to the kids setting around her on the side of the stage.
But as we all know, nothing is completely perfect in this life, as well as this show. Every thing was awesome in the show but one single thing that I personally didn’t like and strongly criticize is making that little girl (7-8 years old) acting like a cow and walking all the time on her knees , i personally find it unfair to her especially while the boy who was acting the wolf was standing normally. So why not the cow girl didn’t walk normally as the wolf boy did?
In conclusion, I find the show very entertaining and interesting. The actors were very trusted on their selfs and were living the characters. The sounds, lightings, and costumes were just perfect and amazing. I loved it and because of it, I loved Theatre more.