Rosebud student completes final project

Times Reporter

 

Cassia Schramm is a name that is well known to Rosebud Theatre goers, after she was cast in lead roles in ‘Oliver Twist’ and ‘The Secret Garden’ in 2010. Schramm has been a student at Rosebud School of the Arts for the past four years, originally hailing from Olds.  After she clears up a few things, Schramm’s time as a student of Rosebud will be done. One of her last projects before graduating will be producing a play or show of some kind.

“Because I am an acting student, part of that, for me, as well as producing, is acting in it. This is my show,” said Schramm.  

Schramm chose ‘You are here’, written by Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor, which was on the Rosebud stage from Jan. 29 to 31.

Schramm said a lot of other students and graduates of Rosebud will be involved in helping put the performance together. The play was about a woman, Alison, who comes into a dark room and starts talking about her life. As she talks, other characters, people from her life, come and take the audience on a journey of her life. 

“She relives her life and she sees it kind of with hindsight and with new eyes,” said Schramm. 

“There’s a lot of hard things that happened in her life and people that made bad choices and she made poor choices, but that’s also kind of the beauty of the play, is that it doesn’t shy away from those things.”

Schramm said it’s a bit brutally honest in some parts, but well written and funny at the same time. She found it easy to relate to the play, which was part of why she chose it. She said there were times the cast would repeat lines because of how well they apply to life. The main character, Alison, sees the opportunities she had in the past and of course she can’t change it, but it can help her in the future. Schramm said one patron came up and spoke to her in regards to how deep the story had hit, and that she had a lot to think about. 

“That’s what theatre should be, you should take it home and maybe be angry about it, and maybe be struggling with it and maybe even be nauseous about it. I think if it really hits you then it’s doing its job, I think,” said Schramm.  

She plans to stay in Rosebud as long as they continue to cast her. She said she does plan on spending a few years auditioning at other theatres. She also said she has just finished recording a CD.

“Hopefully between theatre and music I can keep myself busy,” said Schramm.