Standing in the spotlight, script in hand, many play veterans and newbies put their acting skills to the test while trying out for the first play of the year, The Little Prince.

“I feel like it’ll be really fun to do [the play], I really like putting on shows,” senior John Trecha said. “I just want to be part of the experience. I’m expecting it [performance] to be a lot of fun, I’m expecting it of course to be a lot of hard work but I feel like the overall product will end up paying off a lot.”

With anticipation for the upcoming play, the actors are beginning to learn the story of the prince.

“I love the story and the journey of an adult man who used to be a young boy who had that innocence, creativity and adventure of a young boy that has kind of lost that in his adulthood. By meeting the little prince, it brings him back again to the essence of the person that he used to be and how he can find that again,” Director Lori Thompson said. “At the same time, how the story of The Little Prince takes us through what it is to have a life, how we live it, all the good and bad things that come to it and how sometimes we get caught up in the materialistic of things instead of the beauty of it.”

To much of her surprise, junior Joie Raymond got the part as prince. After research, it is common for a female to play that part.

“I was surprised. I had researched the play and I knew that a lot of the times a girl does play the little prince, just because he’s a little British boy and it’s easier for a female to play that, because usually high school boys can’t really play a little boy,” Raymond said. “I think it’ll be interesting because the little prince has so many relationships with different characters. I’m excited to see how outside of that my relationship develops with those characters, like the real people that play them.”

As the entire cast is working hard to make the performance one to remember, be sure to see it when it comes to the Ruby Zima Auditorium, Nov. 17 through Nov. 19.