Rahway High School Presents “Puffs”
If you long for more books and movies about wizarding worlds, wait no further. Rahway High School’s fall drama production, Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic, will provide many recognizable characters and a ton of nostalgia for audience members of all ages.
Director and new RHS theatre teacher Zachary Love says, “Puffs was the ideal choice for RHS this fall. “Every single student plays a variety of roles, many of them such familiar characters, and they’ve been doing such detailed work at each rehearsal to bring them all to life in such different and distinct ways. And on top of that, they had about 3 fewer weeks of rehearsal than any other school!” In addition to the students on stage, Love has taken on two student assistants, Marcelino Torres and Abigail Reese, who, according to Love, “have risen to the task of directing, stage managing, and realistically learning what it takes to produce a full show.”
Puffs marks the beginning of a new chapter in RHS theatre. “Jumping into the Rahway Arts community as the director of Puffs! has been an absolute rollercoaster ride of emotion,” says Love. “Having come in about 2 weeks into the school year, the biggest challenge for sure has been just utilizing time and also still getting to know the students at the same exact time.”
For Love, the choice to produce Puffs was personal as well. “‘The boy who lived’ was such a huge introduction to my own theatrical journey and is such a big part of who I am as a person,” he says. “My wife was actually the one who suggested it because it was such a concrete way for the students to get to know me, and we’re having an amazing time.”
As for the audience experience, Love says, “This is gonna be an absolute riot, and people are not going to want to miss it!”
Performances of Puffs will take place on Thursday-Saturday, November 17-19, at 7:30pm at Rahway High School Performing Arts Center, 1012 Madison Ave. in Rahway. To purchase tickets, visit rwhs.booktix.com.
