How do the characters in a story pass the time when they aren't being used?

How do WE make sense of the world when so much of the structure and security of our lives is gone?

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet, while away their time flipping coins, playing verbal tennis, and pondering the meaning of their very existence. They are visited by a troupe of travelling actors and eventually find themselves in Denmark at the castle, Elsinore, where the story of Hamlet unfolds around them. You are invited to experience the CMHS Drama virtual spin on the award-winning comedy by Tom Stoppard. Virtual backgrounds (and sometimes lack thereof) help us to understand when characters are in the void of ZOOM, in various rooms and hallways in the castle Elsinore, on a boat, or even becoming aware of themselves as mere characters (actors?) in a play that will be performed over and over again.

Are Ros and Guil merely characters in the story of Hamlet? Or are they the roles taken on in a production of the play Hamlet? Or are they both?     Or neither? Expand your thinking into the meta-nature of this play that borrows heavily from Theatre of The Absurd and recognize where it resonates in your own life in our "new normal".

*This play will be presented as a pre-recorded live broadcast. Scenes were filmed on ZOOM over the course of several weeks and                        edited together by the CMHS Video Production students.

Cheyenne Mtn. HS Drama has a long history of excellent Theatre Education & Productions. Students may take class in: Drama, Advanced Acting (entry through audition only), Theatrical Makeup, Improvisation, and Technical Theatre. Students in classes produce A NIGHT OF ONE ACTS in February for which Drama & Advanced Acting students perform and direct and Technical Theatre students design, build/create, and run crew.

All students may audition for school productions. A Fall Musical is produced every-other year in November and a Fall Play is produced on the "off" years of the musical. Often the Fall Musical is performed in the Lloyd Shaw Auditorium, which seats over 700 audience members. Fall Plays are performed in our intimate Black Box Theatre which, depending on the configuration of the set, seats between 100 - 135 audience members.          A Spring Play is performed in April in our Black Box Theatre. Drama students are encouraged to collaborate with Fine Art and Video Production students for such things as publicity (poster/program/merch design elements) and for aspects of the show that could benefit from video elements.

CMHS Drama Club hosts a Coffee House/Open Mic Night in January in the Black Box. All students are welcome to perform.  The Improvisation class performs Improv Night in the Black Box and develops the show as they see fit with short form, long-form, and sketch comedy.

Advanced Acting students perform in a Thespian Showcase in December before attending the Colorado State Thespian Convention. They write, direct, perform, and produce an end-of-the-year show in the style of The Neo-Futurists'  TOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND.