COMA

COMA . . .

Coma was the end of term production performed at the Town Hall Hunstanton on Wednesday 14th March 2012 by the JGDATA MEGA Stars.

Starting back in January, the group had different plays to work on, both with very different themes.
The first script was about a solo mission to Mars, with the second script about an overzealous actress who was a theatre understudy.
From these two scripts, the students created additional dialogue, threaded together with a fantastic mime to music and light in the centre, based on Assassins being found and shot, returning as the walking dead to a police break in. The show came to a climatic ending with the realisation that the whole episode that had just been viewed had been in the mind of a coma victim.
Congratulations and well done to all the cast for this brilliantly crafted, very modern and completely mature presentation.

The story . . .

The first script about a solo mission to Mars was about a space pilot slowly going stir crazy. Through the scene the frustration builds as the pilot, fantastically played by Chloe, arguing with her co-pilot slowly discovers that she is in fact arguing with herself, which was cleverly performed by Vicky. This initial script was worked on and developed into three other pieces which joined, in the final show.
The second script was about an overzealous actress understudy expertly played by Alexis, who rigged accidents to happen to the actors of the show so they would have to take the night off and she would be in the limelight. The ever stressed theatre manager trying desperately to keep the piece and introduce the show was played by Jake to great effect. The scene built into the realisation that the theatre was actually closed and there was no audience to watch anyway.

Take a look at the students in action . . .

Photos taken by Kate Dunbar - with thanks.