Glenn Theater closed their production of Pride and Prejudice on Saturday, Sept. 28 after four well received shows.

Due to the large size of the advance theater class, directors wanted to double cast the female roles to ensure everyone got the opportunity to star in a leading role. Performers were greeted by a full house on opening night.

“It was really, really scary, but it was really fun,” junior Calliegh Bowers said. “Just the feeling of everyone giggling at you or everyone realizing the comedic moments or in the serious moments of the crowd, like ‘No way!’ or those like ‘No!!’ twist moments. But the first impression was definitely like, ‘Wow, this is actually really happening.’” 

While the large audience was nerve racking for some, for others, such as junior Reilly Favacho, the crowd merely pushed them to put forth their best performance.

“They fueled our fire and helped us to realize that it’s okay to go big or go home,” Favacho said. “And that’s a really significant part of being an actor is if you are too afraid to be big or go outside of yourself, then you’re never gonna be able to show other people art because art isn’t about hiding inside yourself. It’s about showing everybody who you are.”

This was a  historic performance for Glenn Theater as it was their first time to do a show in the round (a form of performance in which audience members are seated on all sides of the performance).

“I think this show especially showcases the versatility of Glenn’s theater department because none of us have ever done something like this before,” senior Eva Crane said. “The directors are always trying to push us to do something different.”

The audience set up was not the only challenge presented to this cast, they also had to consider the time period of their show.

“They also had personalities back then,” Crane said. “I really had to remind myself of that and add characterization to her [Lizzy Bennett] in ways. Like, she doesn’t have to be perfect. No one in that show is poised or elegant at all times at all. So that was really fun, like, giving her the personality that I knew she had and bringing parts of myself into her and taking things that I do now as a young girl and applying them to how I would have to express those things in like, the Regency era. So that was really hard, but it was very cool.”