Vic Drama Society Interview

Adam Lam12min

Adam Lam

00:01

So to start some, oh, how's the? How is it fix Gemma society? Been this year? How have you adapted to COVID COVID-19? And what have some recent how it's been of activities.

Speaker 1

00:13

It's been an interesting year, I think we can agree. It's been a year of a lot of adaptation to new circumstances as they come. And it's been a really cool opportunity, I think, to explore new mediums and new kinds of theater that we wouldn't have ever done even. We're going to be putting out I think, next week, plug a device, or a device, audio show. And even the audio element set aside, vcds just doesn't do device theater, traditionally, there's no reason we couldn't, and I think in the future, they should. But that's been being forced to get a little bit creative, I think has actually been really cool for us in a lot of ways.

Speaker 2

00:56

I would completely agree with Gail on that. When we'd also looked into, we produced our first radio play as well. This past semester, technical dedication. And so yeah, we're looking at ways to be able to still produce theater remotely and online and creative ways.

Adam Lam

01:18

Amazing. Yeah. And, um, what was the title for the radio job? was it was it like a new script? So was it like, was it a retelling of a script?

Speaker 1

01:29

Yeah, it was a it was. So it was actually a student written script that had been proposed to us last year for a draw as a drama fest show to be produced traditionally in person for the OT drama fest. And I, in my old job at vcds, I had read that script. And when we were putting together the season, this year, I thought we should do a radio play, this would make a great radio play. And I reached out to the playwright and she did a lot of really great work with us to make essentially an adaptation of her own play, which was great. It's a zombie drama set in the Hart House theatre. Tech booth. It's a really, it's a, it's a fun show, and the sort of thing that feels very vcds, it feels like, you know, he's like,

Speaker 2

02:14

and the script really lend itself to the audio format, as well. And on top of that, we didn't mention this. Initially, we're also putting on a musical at the in the first week of April. And so that was all recorded remotely. And now we're and then we're compiling it together, online, as well.

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