Just last month, the Malden High School Play Production had another successful performance with their recent fall showcase, “Once on This Island”, which centers on a young girl that falls in love with a wealthy boy from a completely different culture.
Senior Sherley Maximin was one of the advisors from the Haitian Club that took part in the making of the play. She explained that her role was “essentially to help [bring] a caribbean soul to the show.” Maximin and the other leaders took part in choosing the costumes, critiquing, and giving advice on their performances, “ sharing some historical facts” for them to incorporate them in the show.
During last year, club advisor Paul Degenkolb set up a meeting “between the members and the Play Production team” about the idea and it attracted many of them from the start. She went on to add that they “eventually had an internal meeting and discussed the type of commitment that [ these types of projects]” would bring. She also found it interesting how everyone was on board with this idea considering how difficult it would be to combat it.
Although Maximin was not certain about the challenges the cast had to encountered, however she realized “from a human perspective that any great realization brings pitfalls that have to be overcome” because great shows like these didn’t have easy steps to get to the final product.
From that start, Maximin always thought that the play would of been a success “because people from the Play Pro are [artists by heart]”.
