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Props and Weirdness at Skit Night
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By Mariah Almeida
and Taishi Kohjima |
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| Harold Staff Reporters |
Famous
around the world - or at least around Satori Camp - Skit Night
was once again a huge success.
Skit Night is similar to the primetime show
Whose Line Is It Anyway? in which actors improvise their way
through skits. In the Satori version, nine groups of ten campers
each chose six props. Then, they had 35 minutes to come up with
a scenario involving the props - without using them as what
the props really were.
The first performance was the counselors’
science fiction skit. While Tyler Burnett and Nathan Collins,
as Captain Valiant and Trusty Robot, provided enthralling performances,
a young Madeline Edminster stole the show when she gave the
audience an impromptu verse of Little Bunny Foo Foo.
Skit topics varied widely, with spoofs on
such movies as Monty Python and The Holy Grail and Lord of the
Rings, as well as television shows like Fear Factor. One group
acted out a war between the Evil Empire and the forces of Oz.
Another group killed a hippie, only to make her a statue.
Cooper
Henderson’s skit about the Wyoming Coast Guard was not only
imaginative, but well done with a cast that included only two
veteran campers.
Originality points go to the cast of “Spandex
Troopers” and their Power Rangers-style defeats of some of Satori’s
deadly foes: food, dirty underwear, and the lack of a beat in
dance class.
The props were various random objects, each
special in its own way. A plastic hammer became a phone, a “magic
fluff ball” was bestowed on adventurers in one skit, a killer
bunny - a stuffed animal - attacked, and a candle was used an
aerosol can.
While most of Satori enjoyed skit night,
there was one complaint. Collin Deel, paying heed to the plea
of Satori’s leaders to maintain a nonviolent environment, counted
23 deaths during the night. One death was the unfortunate passing
of a turkey.
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Satori Harold
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