Fringe Festival !

This year For the Fringe Festival, Ms Nichols and Ms. Lavender (two IB english Teachers at ISK) decided to participate in the Fringe Festival (organized by IB drama students only). They decided to create a short 5minutes feminist play about 5 paintings and Margaret Atwood's famous poem "Manet's Olympia" that we have studied in class for the oral commentaries. They asked 5 of their students to be part of their play, myself included: Ibtissam Benbaha, Olivia Fomete, Cora Lavender and Noella Kabaluapa.
My painting was Mona Lisa, I was supposed to show the audience that Mona lisa isn't a boring unhappy and miserable person, I had to show that she is happy and enthusiastic and doesn't like people's reactions when they see her and they are disappointed. Ibtissam was Olympia (in Manet's painting and Atwood's poem), olivia was the girl with the pearl earrings, cora was Marilyn monroe and Noella was Picass'o dora. At first I wasnt too excited about this Fringe festival seeing as February is a very busy month for full IB seniors, but I soon realized that I loved being part of their play. This play was honestly so much fun, rehearsals were very funny, we got to bond with each other and the more we practiced the better it got and the final performances were really really good despite some mistakes that we made that were still really funny.
In addition to that we got to watch the other IB drama students' perfomances and plays which was also great. I had never been part of any play or acting performance ever and this was the first time I acted in front of people and it went really well, I was really nervous at the beginning but the more we practiced the better it got and the better we all performed.