This weekend will be the fourth time Wangaratta Players has tried to host its performance of Catholic School Girls, after COVID-19 caused multiple postponements.
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Director Gillian Leonard said Casey Kurtti's script about the development of four girls in the 1960's catholic school system was first due to be performed in May last year.
"We had to pull the plug pretty early, it was pretty obvious what was going on," she said.
"We only got about three weeks into rehearsals and I also had to recast it because I only kept one of my original cast members."
Leonard said the club had attempted to launch the performance in June, then again in August this year without success.
"So now we're keeping everything crossed that we'll be able to keep everything open up fully, because we've already got a couple of really good lots of booking," she said.
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Actor Lyndal Perry said the extra time did have an upside - it gave her more opportunity to develop her character.
"I spent a number of sessions sort of just reading through the book and going what is this actually about? where is it actually going?," she said.
"And time that you wouldn't normally have or things that you piece together in the last little bit, we've had a bit more time to get that across.
"It's been a massive journey for all of us in the sense that it's been on again off again for quite some time.
"We've been able to really enhance it and make it such a wonderful show to be a part of and I'm really keen for people to see it, so it's very exciting for me to know that we're finally there."
Leonard said the all-women cast and characters were great for female actors to develop their craft.
"The leads used to always be males and the women used to subsidiary roles," she said.
"But this one is an ensemble piece, in other words they really have to work as a group as a team, because they're on stage for probably about 90 per cent of the time, all four of them.
"It's just that it's all women and they're showing their acting abilities as children and through to adults and they've got no props really, they've got to mime.
"It's great character development and it's just that you don't very often get a play with all women in it, so it's quite unique... I did it myself many years ago, and I just loved it and I wanted to give the girls an opportunity to go at it because it's a great piece."
Perry said she'd enjoyed the rehearsals with only women.
"This just seemed like a really good opportunity to stretch my acting wings because I haven't had many big roles or lead roles in acting before," she said.
"I've only just started to break into that area of playing characters who actually have a lot of substance and substantial work to them and this just seemed like the perfect opportunity to get into that and branch out."
The play will run from Friday November 26 to Saturday December 4 at the Wangaratta Players Inc. The Stage Door, 4D Evans Street, Wangaratta.
To book go here.
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