Opening Night For Almost, Maine Play Summary

Opening night for Almost, Maine was Friday, November 18th at the Thomas H. Debolt Auditorium. Almost, Maine was written by an American actor named John Cariani. Friday night’s production was directed by Jonathan Gruich, our High School Theatre teacher, with the help of Ben Kemmerly, assistant director, Levana Ngo, lighting director, and Trinity Sullivan who was the stage manager. This play takes place on a nice, cold Friday night in the town of Almost, Maine. All throughout the play you see people that know each other for the longest time fall in love or start to have feelings of the other person. Each scene will have you awing or gasping from the actions that you just saw. Almost, Maine will make you want more, all of the scenes have a powerful
For instance, Gayle and Lendall, Phil and Marci, and lastly Pete and Ginette. For they were probably the major characters because they all had problems in their relationship. The rest of the characters, like Rhonda and Dave, or Randy and Chad, I would consider to be minor characters because we only see a blossoming of their relationship. The role of Rhonda was probably the best out the entire because Wendy Nguyen did an amazing job play this role. She fit in with her character very well. It was as if Rhonda was one of Wendy’s alter egos because she made the role of Rhonda come to life. Now after watching this production of Almost, Maine I would not picture someone else as Rhonda. The actors mostly used a comedic style to the show, I think they tried really hard to be make the show funny. The actors did make it funny, but in my opinion some of them were trying too hard instead of just going with the flow while on the stage. They did respond to each other as if they were in actual relationship and dealing with those problems. Especially in the scene with Gayle and Lendall. She is trying to get all of her love back, but when she sees how much love she has given to him she does not believe it. When he told her that that was all the love she really gave him, he sounded kind of hurt that she did not believe him. The Gayle and Lendall reacted to each other in the scene was
Every little thing went together, every little design had a purpose and went together. There was nothing that did not fit, all the items on stage had a meaning. The blue and green lights for the Northern Lights stood out to me the most because I, personally have always wanted to go see the Northern Lights. I think the Northern Lights was the element that tied everything together because when you are looking at something you have never seen before, like the Northern Lights, I feel like if you are or would be in a state of disbelief. Friday night was the first time an actual audience saw this version of Almost, Maine. The way this proscenium stage was set fit well with the set design. To me it sort of enhanced the story because I kind of close to the stage I could clearly see the actors reactions. The design of the set was clearly during winter on a snowy Friday night in Maine. The set design was appropriate to story, which helped me visualize what the actual town would like look at