This spring Berkshire Theater is doing Don’t You Forget About Me, a play taking popular 80's movies and bringing them to the stage. We’re using scenes from The Breakfast Club, Say Anything, Mystic Pizza, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, all different stories but connect to each other in similar themes about relationships and parents and being a teenager. So far we’ve been working in a rotation system, with different groups switching off in different work spaces from the theatre to the film lab and the green room. At “show and tell” we come together and share what we have been working on with the cast.
You might be wondering how do we bring different scenes from films and put it on a stage as a play? One of the ways we’re doing this is by using platforms. Each film has its own section off the stage and the middle space is left open for all groups to use. We’ve also been playing around with overlap in different spaces, for instance, in a Ferris Bueller scene the characters eat out at the Mystic Pizza place. Doing scenes from films also challenges us to deliver to the audience in a way that the characters feel real. A lot of time has been dedicated to character work in order to get the feel for who the characters are. With all the different experimenting and rehearsals, these first few weeks have flown by!
What the cast and crew are saying…
“We’re having a lot of fun putting the pieces of the puzzle together.”
–Katie Soper
“It’s a really cool concept; one play with four different story lines.”
-Lucia Liencres
“I was skeptical at first for how we could make scenes from films into a play, but to my surprise it’s been working out better than I imagined and in an awesome way.”
-Andrea Cass
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