Cast members of Friday NIght Fuego pose for a group photo during a recent rehearsal. The play was co-written by Gunnison High School students Anastasia Harvey and Kaysha Brunsting. Submitted photoThe Gunnison High School Drama Club presented an original play last week titled “Friday Night Fuego.” The play was written by a pair of GHS students, Anastasia Harvey and Kaysha Brunsting.
The show was presented Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The beginnings of the play go back to last spring, when Harvey began writing a play about the wild west. She eventually presented the play to the GHS Drama Club when school started, and the group decided to begin rehearsals and perform the play for its fall production. After rehearsing for about six weeks, Harvey and Brunsting decided to write a new play that would better accommodate the schedules of the students involved, and from there Friday Night Fuego was born.
Harvey summarized the plot, saying that “a gang of orphaned girls from the 1990s take a scientist and his time travel machine back to the 1970s. While there, they learn to dance, make new friendships and find out what a debt is really worth.”
Harvey and Brunsting wrote the play during their four-day fall break and rehearsal for the new play started Wednesday, Oct. 15. The Drama Club participants were all on board to make the production happen in just three weeks.
Drama Club and the student directors tried their best to work around student schedules so that students involved with sports, band and other activities could be included and participate.
Along with writing and directing the play, Harvey designed the costumes for both shows. 1890s costumes and props had been collected for the first wild west show, but students had no problem shifting to their new disco outfits, according to club coach and advisor Julia Wilson. Brunsting headed up making props for the show and other actors helped create the props and scenery.
The students were very pleased with how the shows went, especially considering the relatively short amount of time that they had to prepare for it, according to Wilson. She shares those duties with GHS English teacher, Amy Jo Geurink.
Meanwhile, Harvey will graduate early in December and will attend BYU-Idaho in January. Brunsting will be leaving Gunnison with her family as well in December.
Wilson said that it is hoped Harvey and Brunsting will write a sequel to Friday Night Fuego.
The cast
Cast members in the production included Harvey, Brunsting, Erin Reyes, Pracilla Goodnight, Julien Klingsmith, Saralyn Harvey, Kinley Dziekan, Emma Carr, Fynn Nelson, Mirabelle Boden, Seth Harvey, Caris Stoerkel, Jack Siegris, Charlie Willis and Jacob Martinez.
Lights were handled by Thomas McNamara.
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