Swink School Fall Melodrama Review: Curses, Foiled Again and Again and Again or The Time-Loop of Filthy Mudd

Description: Drama Program Director Bonnie Grossen, right, explains the younger-self concept from the play to the young audience on Monday afternoon. Don't Miss this Show: Nov. 23 at 6:30 p.m. full dinner and dessert, $15; Nov. 24 at 2 p.m. dessert only, $10. For reservations, call 719 469-3124.

Swink School Melodrama Review: Curses, Foiled Again and Again and Again or The Time-Loop of Filthy Mudd

Photo Gallery by Bette McFarren

Austin Patton as Dudley Do-Gooder and Cristian Barnhart as Dastardly Dan in Fall Swink School Play.

Adalynn Hart as Sweet Susanna and Jennifer Gardner as Luscious Lucinda in Swink School Play, showing this weekend at Swink School.

Rylie Goodwin as Cactus and Tiffanie LeMaster as Mother in Swink School melodrama playing this weekend at Swnk School.

Audrey Leitner as Young Susanna and Mason Smith as Eugeeneer in the Swink School Fall Melodrama.

Blake Smith and Gannon Hart as Dastardly Assistants in the Swink Fall play backstage before the performance for students on Monday afternoon.

During the presentation for students members of the audience got to come onstage with student actors in the Swink School Multi-Purpose Room on Monday afternoon.

Review by Bette McFarren

The drama department at Swink School, under the direction of Bonnie Grossen, is showing the Fall play, a melodrama making fun of melodramas this weekend at the Swink School auditorium.

The Fall play is an annual highlight of the Swink Drama Department. This year it features a melodrama burlesquing melodramas and encouraging the audience to boo and hiss throughout the performance as directed by cue cards plainly displayed onstage.

The entire Swink School population got their sneak preview on Monday afternoon after classes much to the delight of the audience several students were taken onstage with the performers to see what it is like to be an actor.

In the play, “Curses Foiled Again and Again and Again,” several of the cast got to play more than one part, adding to the fun.

This is a melodrama poking fun at the melodrama Genre. The dastardly villain is portrayed by Cristian Barnhart, who has the booming wicked laugh of villainry down pat. Adalynn Hart is Sweet Suzanna, our delicate heroine who is threatened not only to be cut in half, but also with marriage to Dastardly Dan.

Austin Patton as Dudley Do-Gooder and Adalynn Hart as Sweet Susanna stand by as dancing engineers Mason Smith and Grant Pickering give audience cues that it’s time to Boo and Hiss in the Swink School Play rehersal on Monday.

Rylie Goodwin, the cactus, gives us some insight for what it is like to be onstage during an entire scene with only the job of holding his/her arms in the suitable cactus position. The cactus speaks out in an entertaining scene for the bit part players, getting their turn at speaking out against the trials of small parts.

Backstage at the Swink School melodrama, playing this weekend at Swink School Auditorium.

Showtimes: Nov. 22 and 23, 6:30 p.m. (full dinner and dessert, $15; Nov. 24 at 2 p.m.. dessert only, $10. For reservations, call 719 469-3124.

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Photo Gallery by Bette McFarren

Austin Patton as Dudley Do-Gooder and Cristian Barnhart as Dastardly Dan in Fall Swink School Play.

Audrey Leitner as Young Susanna and Mason Smith as Engeneer in Swink School Melodrama.

Rylie Goodwin as Cactus and Tiffanie LeMaster as Mother in Swink School melodrama playing this weekend at Swnk School.

The cactus speaks out in an entertaining scene for the bit part players, getting their turn at speaking out against the trials of small parts.

During school presentation, members of audience got to come onstage with players at Swink School on Monday afternoon.

Austin Patton as Dudley Do-Gooder and Adalynn Hart as Sweet Susanna stand by as dancing engineers Mason Smith and Grant Pickering give audience cues that it’s time to Boo and Hiss in the Swink School Play rehersal on Monday.

Blake Smith and Gannon Hart as Dastardly Assistants in the Swink Fall play backstage before the performance for students on Monday afternoon.

Adalynn Hart as Sweet Susanna and Jennifer Gardner as Luscious Lucinda in Swink School Play, showing this weekend at Swink School.

Backstage at the Swink School melodrama, playing this weekend at Swink School Auditorium.