By Brady Bateman

Carlton students get creative learning experience designing Cinderella set

Oct 31, 2018 | 5:00 PM

Students involved with the drama program at Prince Albert’s Carlton Comprehensive Public High School were put to work in September designing a set for their upcoming pantomime performance of Cinderella.

David Zulkoskey, the drama teacher at Carlton, instructed the students to create set pieces based off of their own whimsical interpretation of the Cinderella story. The students were separated into groups to tackle certain areas of the set design, and given creative freedom to complete the set as they envisioned.

“In a lot of ways I’m a mentor because I have the experience, but that being said I don’t have all the answers, and that’s what makes this a very innovative program, because these students are the leaders of tomorrow,” Zulkoskey said. “Basically the project slowly got bigger and bigger and bigger. I got to see the creativity rise in these students … it’s a wonderful moment when you see students inspiring other students and in turn their teacher.”

The students involved in the drama program were split into groups that included a team in charge of manufacturing set pieces, which included a moveable pumpkin wagon, a team in charge of painting and artistic design and students fabricating three-dimensional houses.

According to several of the students, including Grade 12 student William Straf, they believed they invested roughly 40 to 50 hours into the manufacturing of the pieces, and all are now excited to see their hard work enjoyed by the public.

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“This has really been a passion project, because we all got to choose what we wanted to work on, and I think when you get to choose what you want to work on it makes it better,” Straf said. “It’s been a long process, but it’s definitely paid off I would say.”

The performance will include two lead actors, Grade 11 students Sierra Parker and Heidi Lundell, both of which will be playing the part of Cinderella throughout the show.

“Cinderella is a very hard worker and very caring, she’s a dreamer I would say,” Parker said. “It’s fun to get to play a character like that, it’s kind of out of reality because you can’t always have those high hopes that she has.”

Lundell added Cinderella can be looked at as a role model for younger women as she is often oppressed by those around her but chooses to defy expectations and seek her own happiness.

The show will be held at the E.A Rawlinson Centre Nov. 18 at 2 p.m., with tickets priced at $15. The set will be used in several travelling performances throughout November as it was designed to be entirely moveable by the students.

brady.bateman@jpbg.ca

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