Proctor High School Drama Club Talks Upcoming Production: ‘The Canterville Ghost’
PROCTOR, Minn. — Every day after school the Proctor High School Drama Club meets to practice their skills and rehearse their upcoming production.
With a group of young students, the Drama Club have created their own family.
“It is a family, it’s nice to come here and just relax and to have fun and just kind of forget about all the problems in the world, because you’re so in the world that you’re making on stage,” said 10th grader Cadence Madison. 
“I can be dragging all day long and when I come into rehearsal, by the end of rehearsal they have given me so much energy that it has changed my entire day. They are very important to me and the program because they give their all, they do everything they need to do to make it come along,” said Lois O’Leary, Drama Club Director and Advisor.
“I really like it and enjoy it because I do know that there are not a ton of schools that offer a drama activity,” said 9th grader Audrey Zavodink.
Many of the drama club members had little to none experience before joining, and now many of them are taking on large roles on and off stage.
“I noticed a lot last year that my friends were really into drama, and that kind of got me thinking that maybe I could try out and see how it works, so this year I decided to give it a shot and so far I’m really liking it,” said 10th grader Tridian Butler.
“My favorite thing is being on stage, it’s that feeling when after the curtain closes and everybody’s clapping, and you feel so good about yourself, like you get that warm feeling in your chest and you’re like, yeah, I did pretty good,” said 11th grader Regan Paszak.
This year the Drama Club is putting on both a play and a musical, and right now they are preparing to take the stage in “The Canterville Ghost.”
A comedy adapted from a story by Oscar Wilde, about a family that moves into a house, that has an unexpected visitor.
“It does get kind of nerve racking, thinking about everybody staring at directly at me, but I like the character so much, I think it’s worth it,” said 10th grade Bryce Boeselager.
It’s not only the young actors that take on big roles. The club also has technicians who run the lights and sound.
“Everything you see that’s lit up it the show is contributed to me, and like Parker said, we work hand and hand with the sound and light cues, because in this show we have thunder, he will play the thunder sound, I’ll do the lights, it’s cool, it’s fun,” said 9th grader Tanner Hargroves.
“It’s all about team work,” said 9th grader Parker McDougall.
Members of the Drama Club encourage kids who may be interesting in drama, to get involved at a young age.
“Reach out as soon as you can, because for our school, the middle schoolers every Tuesday up until the last couple of weeks of a performance we’re doing, they have middle school drama and if I knew about that when I was in middle school then I would have loved to do it,” said 10th grader Jayden Wallin.
“Come out to Proctor High School on December 1 and 2 at 7 o’clock, and on Sunday, December 3, at 2 o’clock and see whether or not the ghost Sir Simon gets forgiven,” said O’Leary.
