On Jan. 16, Park Theater’s production of Kodachrome opened. The play features the use of photography to create scenes, representing the many different lives amplified throughout the play.
Senior Karen Dworsky said set design and costumes bring character to the play. According to her, while the show is short it’s well done.
“The set is simple yet has a lot of character and brings a lot to the show. It’s just three individual scenes that turn into different things depending on where we are, but it is well done and the costumes are amazing.”
Artistic director Jodi Schifsky said her favorite part of the play is difficult to choose because there are so many interesting moments. She said lighting holds a large role in the play.
“It’s hard to pick a favorite moment because that’s like picking your favorite child. There’s some compelling moments in the play that tug at your heart a little bit,” Schifsky said. “We’re doing some cool things with lighting to create these photographs within the play. I love all of those, but maybe the final moment with our photographer is the scene that touches me most.”
Sophomore Asha Ferran-Sapatnekar said her most challenging scene was one involving a phone call. She said it demands a lot of emotion.
“The hardest scene is the phone call scene because I have to express a lot of emotion,” Ferran-Sapatnekar said. “It’s just a very hard scene to get right immediately.”
Dworsky said this play is different from other plays that she has worked on because of the amount of time she had to prepare and each person only has a little part.
“I feel like we got prepared a lot earlier for this one because it is so short and each person has such a small part except for the narrator,” Dworsky said. “However, it was a lot easier to just put it all together versus other plays, where it’s a lot more of a group effort.”
Ferran-Sapatnekar said there were a few things that went wrong but now they’re back on track and getting ready for the play.
“There were a few mishaps with learning lines and within the group, but we all got along,” Ferran-Sapatneker said. “Now we’re doing well getting ready for our play.”
According to Schifsky, this play is special because a narrator creates images throughout the play. She said it has been hard to make these moments happen because they haven’t done this before.
“It’s definitely different from our other acts because there’s a narrator who narrates throughout and takes these pictures. We are not only creating (images) on stage but then some of them show up on the screen too,” Schifsky said. “So that is an added challenge to be concise but also to create these moments and that’s something that we haven’t done in the past.”