The Picador Volume 9, Issue 2
A PUBLICATION BY HOLDERNESS STUDENTS FOR THE HOLDERNESS SCHOOL COMMUNITY
October 11, 2013
Notes from Behind the Scenes of Heaven Can Wait she found backstage; she also sometimes puts images on the curtain. I am the one who plays music, or puts up projections, or gets to call down to the wizards behind the curtain when the actors need to be herded onstage. We all have completely different jobs, but our trio has to be in sync at all times.
By Leah Scaralia ’15 As someone who has attended every single rehearsal for Heaven Can Wait since the cast list was released, I have the right to say, without a hint of sarcasm, that the company has come a long way. We have printed countless copies of the script, most of which are probably floating in the breeze backstage like tumbleweeds. The print from these pages has been ingrained into the actors’ heads, so there is no further need for them. Nevertheless, each script attempts to offer some sort of explanation as to how Charles Harker becomes Charlie Day in a matter of seconds, and how both
of them become Jason Nunez by the end of the play. I won’t delve any deeper into that mystery; you'll figure it out.. I promise. Three of us techies have our
Ms. Devine and I have also briefed a small militia of composed students who keep things running smoothly behind the curtain. I would grant them each three marshmallows if I could.
own post up in what I like to call Hagerman Heights. There’s Liesl Magnus, who sheds a little light on the play. We as a team have been able Grace Lawrence is the one to overcome many challenges who pokes me during re(Continued on page 2) hearsal with a slalom gate that
From The Bull to The Picador Since 1942 school a paper that will contain news about the school, not On October 14th, 1942, when so old that it has been long a German submarine sank the forgotten, but rather so recent ferry SS Caribou off Newthat it will be fresh on the foundland, it was three nights minds of all who read it.” This after the United States’ victory bi-weekly publication was run at the battle of Cape Esperby students, and a subscription ance, and ten months before to it cost $1.50 annually. the US Congress declared war upon Japan and Germany. It Creeley emphasized the imwas also the day on which the portance of the school's parfirst student-run publication at ticipation: “Without contributions from the whole school, Holderness was published. The Bull cannot function propRobert Creeley ’43, who later erly…Everything which is in life wrote poetry and auhanded in will receive a thorthored more than sixty books, ough going-over by the board was the first editor of The Bull, of editors, and, if not accepted, and he wrote on the first isreasons will be given for this sue’s front page: “We are fordecision.” Students were entunate to be able to give the By Zihan Guo '14
couraged to submit drawings, paintings, articles, poems, sports reports, and almost anything that was related to school life. The Bull was a channel that allowed students’ voices to be heard. It also caused dissension and debate. In the second issue of The Bull, Creeley wrote that students were tired of having so many potato dishes so many days in a row. The school's chef was distressed and threatened to quit. The scarcity of chefs during the war was so great that The Bull was in serious trouble. The chef was quitting his job, and the school (Continued on page 2)
Inside This Issue: Page 3: What Did We
Look Like Four Years Ago? Parents’ Weekend 2009. Page 7: Thank you,
Parents! Page 8: Introducing
Holderness School’s Dress Code Tumblr Page 11: Overheards:
Get Ready to Laugh! Page 12: Getting to
Know This Year’s New Editors.