The students taking part in this year's fall play, “The Miracle Worker,” walked into their auditions. They are focusing on losing their sight and hearing and truly becoming their characters.

    “The Miracle Worker,” comes from the original book “The Story of My Life” which is the autobiography of Helen Keller. In this play the audience get to see the tale of Keller who due, to a violent birth, was blind and deaf.

    “I read over the summer and pick material that it interesting but challenging. I try to sometimes tie it into school, to be similar by what students may be reading in English,” said Burgandy Zikowitz, Drama teacher.

    The play is about the life of Helen Keller, who is being played by Sawyer Stone and how she is taught to communicate by teacher Annie Sullivan, who is being played by Victoria Duncan. It is this year's fall play and is scheduled to premiere in the auditorium on November 19-21; the production is being directed by Zikowitz.

    “I read over the summer and pick material that it interesting but challenging. I try to sometimes tie it into school, to be similar by what students may be reading in English,” said Zikowitz.

    With the play already picked, students geared up for auditions.

    “We usually split up into groups of six and we a do a scene from the play. It's cool because it's more like a group audition, which takes a lot of the stress off. Plus that any who isn't directly involved with the play isn't allowed in the auditorium during our auditions,” said Victoria Duncan, sophomore.

    After auditions students have to wait a few days before they receive call-backs and then proceed with the final audition. This process is to insure that the roles are given to the students who are best fit for the part.

    “The audition process takes about one week. Two days for auditions, call-backs on Thursday, and final auditions on Friday,” said Zikowitz.

    But during this week students feel nervous because of their auditions.

    “I always get butterflies in my stomach after my auditions even if I did my best,” said Tiffany Clark, sophomore.

    After students finish with their final auditions the butterflies in their stomachs increase rapidly. Mostly students complain about what they did wrong and not right.

    “After when we’re all together, we talk about what went wrong. We usually talk about what went wrong more than what when right,” said Duncan.

    Now that the auditions are done with and students know what parts they are going to play, they now study their lines to perfection with the help of Zikowitz and their fellow students.