Clue entertains audience and actors alike via improvisation

By Aadeetri Pandey
     After many snow days and illnesses the Upper School production of Clue was finally performed Feb. 22 in front of a lively audience of students, faculty and parents. 
     While some students had some preconceived notions of the winter play mainly because they are normally Shakespearean plays or other classic works, they were pleasantly surprised to be wrong. 
     “Looking back on the past plays, they were, I mean, they were okay. So I was expecting this play to be just okay. But after watching it I thought it was one of the best plays that we've ever done, “ Maria Summer ‘29. “I liked how the actors really portrayed their characters in a really good way. They were really expressive.” 
     The actors really made this performance of Clue super special and humorous by adding their own unique flare to the characters they played. One of the performers, Mia Esposito ‘28, who played Mrs. Peacock, a crooked senator's wife, was especially electric during the performance. She and the other actors were constantly ad libbing and switching up small things every practice, so come time of the performance, it remained fresh. 
     “We ad libbed through the whole thing. We ad libbed every rehearsal, every run through was different. And I think that like having a cast, you can go having a cast where you can, like, build off the energy of one another,” Esposito said. “It is really fun, and it's really great, and I really appreciate that Miss Jones has let us cultivate that environment.”
     A moment the audience found particularly humorous was completely improvised, but it worked really well because it addresses Mr. Green’s previous admission of homosexuality. 
     “The closing line that I came up with at intermission, I talked to Carter Reel ‘28, who played Mr. Green. I was like, hey, Carter, when you say that you're gonna go home and sleep with your wife, I'm gonna be pretty surprised that you're not gay,” Esposito said “And he was like, ‘that's great.’”  

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