"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

So next week is the opening of A Christmas Carol, the show we are putting on for Monarch High School’s fall play. We are doing it in steampunk style, which is basically an over-dramatization of an alternate future in which steam-powered machinery took over, and basically finer internal software never developed and everything is giant factory, brass and bronze gears and pipes, all over a Victorian England setting. I am in tech as well as an actor. I play Topper, Fred (Scrooge’s nephew)’s friend that accompanies him to his Christmas dinner party.  As for tech, I am in set tech, and we have been building the set diligently for the past couple of weeks. Doc (Gwendolyn Lukas-Doctor), our theater director, and Kelsey Kaisershot, the assistant director have endeavored to put on the show in one month. It’s a pretty tall order, and for the past week and a half, select few members of set tech (including myself) have been staying until at least 7:30 each night working. We are so close and yet so far from finishing. We will see.