Continuing tonight and Saturday, the theatre department is performing “Radium Girls” for their mainstage play. Senior Julianna Forsha plays Grace Friar, one of the factory workers that works with the radium. The process for the play starts with the different actors auditioning.

“The audition is just a monologue,” Forsha said. “The week before, every couple of hours, I read through it once and then eventually by the time the audition comes around I have it memorized.”

Forsha started rehearsals in early January. She said rehearsals began with blocking and as time went on, they started running the show.

“This show was one where we moved really quickly,” Forsha said. “Typically, if you are doing a musical or a different play you have to spend a lot of time blocking things and you have to spend a lot of time doing musical numbers and things like that, but this show, we were running it — doing the show — all the way through the third or fourth week, which is kind of unheard of.”

Along with playing a character on stage, she said she has also fostered relationships with the rest of the cast.

“The rest of the cast is great,” Forsha said. “A lot of them I haven’t really worked with before because it’s a lot of underclassmen and they’re all doing a fantastic job and they are all nice people. It has been really fun to work with them.”

Forsha has been a part of fifteen shows during her time in high school. She said she is excited to be a part of her last show in her senior year.

“Don’t let the fear of rejection and fear of something maybe going wrong stop you,” Forsha said. “I promise even if it doesn’t work out all the time, the times it does are worth the time you put into the audition and the rehearsal process.”