Over the past year, quarantine hasn’t given most of us anything other than crippling anxiety disorders and fresh material to terrorize our English teachers with in personal essays. However, something that quarantine couldn’t take from us no matter how hard it tried was high school theatre. At E.O. Smith,  the drama club had had more ups and downs than a rickety Six Flags Roller Coaster, but through the perseverance of its wonderful directors and advisors – Mrs. Abercrombie, Ms. Abbott, and Mr. Welden, it survived one of the most dramatic years we’ve ever had (see what I did there?). The drama club has spent several months working on a production of The Great Gatsby, and in the spring we got to see it fully completed and played on a screen at the Mansfield Drive-In. Adapting live theatre for a pandemic was no easy task – so E.O. Smith brought Gatsby to the big screen. Through the use of greenscreen, film, and careful editing, the show was still able to go on. For actors, it was a practice in portraying a character’s emotion through masks, and for the tech and crew, it was a practice in editing and producing the film. Despite all this, the entire club had a really unique experience working on the show, and we all had a lot of fun with each other!