The Mouse That Roared

The play we did was "The Mouse That Roared" taken from the book written by Leonard Wibberley. It's a comedy set in the Cold War era. This tiny country, Grand Fenwick, decides to declare war on the United States in order to avoid bankruptcy. Because, as history shows, when a country loses a war with with US, they always spend a great deal of money on rehabilitating that country. So they send a simple-minded backwoodsman, Tully Bascom, with just a few men carrying longbows to invade the US. Then the unexpected happens, instead of all dying or getting captured, they win! It's really a funny story.

The lead girl, Duchess Gloriana XII, was split between 3 actresses just because of the sheer amount of lines and the time we had to learn them. I played the first one, which meant I had to memorize 70 lines in 5 days. It was crazy. But fun.

(below) Tully and his soldiers capturing General Snippet and the Q-Bomb.

I don't know how we pulled it off, but we did. Everything went really smoothly, no one messed up too badly, no one tripped on their dresses or fell down stairs. It was a miracle! Especially since the dress rehearsal was sketchyyy... I was really glad my part was early on so that I could just relax in the second act.

Me with our awesome director April, she really was amazing!

Will, Will (there were way too many people with the same name), Katelyn, and me at the ice cream social after the play.

And that about sums it up! It was a crazy, stressful, fun, stretching, awesome time. I'm definitely glad I went.