Rehearsals for the freshman-sophomore play “Snow Angel” began almost immediately after the fall play “Great Expectations.”

“Snow Angel” is a story of a small group of teenagers on a snow day, who find a lost girl and attempt to help her find her way back home. Throughout the play, the main character, Eva meets each of the other characters and portrays each of them as they appear to others.

After the long process of auditions, the actors soon received their roles and began looking over the script.

The actors tended to show some mixed feelings about the show.

“It’s really abstract,” said freshman Eudora Olsen, who plays Frida.  ”We’ve done more show-tuney productions whereas this is more edgy; the audience has to think so it’s new to me,” freshman Eudora Olsen who plays Frida said.

Freshman Emma Riley, who plays the role of Eva, said she didn’t originally like the play.

“After blocking it and seeing how it looks, and how we act together, I think it’s going to be really good. And we have a good director to pull it off.”

This year’s director for the freshman-sophomore play is Adam Florese.

“I love the director,” Olsen said.  ”He’s such a chill guy.”

Florese tends to make the rehearsals fun for students. Not only that, but he has also helped to improve students’ acting abilities as well.

“The quality of the blocking is so much better,” Riley said. “Beforehand [in middle school productions] it told me just where to go. Now I feel like I’m improving my acting abilities as well.”

This director hasn’t only helped to give the actors better direction, but he has also helped them to develop a better understanding of their characters.

This was done by having each student bring in a song that best represented the character they would be playing, and then having them explain it to the group.

“The director helped us to get a better understanding of our characters,” Riley said. “It really helped because we know our characters better and we know how to interpret them and say their lines.”

Florese has a unique way of doing things when it comes to theatre. One of the rules for “Snow Angel” is that every character must wear one costume piece of their own. They must also lend a costume piece to another character as well.

The drama department puts on a show meant to be mainly cast with freshmen and sophomores because it gives them the opportunity to receive larger roles.  Even though this show is meant to be for mainly freshmen and sophomores, the upperclassmen tend to take part in it as well.

“In case they needed more people, we’ve always implemented upperclassmen into the underclassmen play because of the shortage of parts,” junior John Holland, who plays the character Crank, said.

Since upperclassmen are allowed to audition and because this year specifically all the auditions were done together, the freshmen were a little tense about them.  Riley explained that this was only her second time having callbacks and for her it was a little frightening.

“It was a little nerve-racking because you get experiences with other actors in callbacks and there’s more competition,” Riley said.

The actors have gone through the long drawn out process of auditions, and are in the process of surviving the hard work of rehearsals. They hope that they get a good crowd to come and see the play. Tickets are five dollars, and the show will take place on Nov. 20 and 21.