Inspire begins Edinburgh Festival Fringe rehearsals...

15 students and I began gathering in IC-21 (thanks Mr. Johnson for letting us use your room while the new theatre lab floor is installed in IC-23!) to rehearse our 2022 entry at the largest performing arts festival in the world - the Edinburgh Festival Fringe!

This is the first year that Fringe is back to pre-pandemic attendance and it's expected to be a fantastic year of comedy, dance, music, theatre, and variety shows. The Fringe celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. The founding principle at the heart of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – to be an open-access arts event that welcomes anyone with a story to tell and a venue to host them – still guides the work of the Society today.

Inspire students are honored to attend the Fringe for the 2nd time and look forward to helping celebrate the Fringe Society's founding principle of being welcoming and inclusive, a principle that is reflected at the very core of what it means to be a student at Inspire School of Arts and Sciences.

Our students wanted to create an updated adaptation of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. Told from mindscape of Victor Frankenstein - a wonderful student who believes completely that she is destined for greatness. Watch how her ability to command the heavens' great thunder, to mimic the earthquakes, and mock the invisible world with its own creations and shadows reeks havoc on her mind.

The script is written, devised, designed, performed, and produced by Inspire students. They've taken an inclusive and exciting approach to the characters. These classic characters were adapted to be truly representative of the many expressions and identities of our students. Additionally, the adaptation captures Shelly's aesthetic by telling the story from inside Victor's mind. The stage serves as the brain, the nerve center of this story, and all its characters a part of her psyche.

Check out some of our recent shots in rehearsal: