Irish Insights: BMCHS drama students present play that ‘Goes Wrong’

After practicing since the beginning of the semester, the drama department recently held its production of “The Play That Goes Wrong.” 

“It’s the Play that Goes Wrong, which is kind of like a play within a play, and so each person is almost like a double character,” junior Finley Cataldi said.

In the production, Cataldi plays a member of the stage crew. Her role requires that she “fix” the set pieces when things go awry.

“It's like sets fall apart and people forget their lines, and the stage crew has to run on stage, and all that stuff,” Cataldi said. “It's exciting. It's thrilling.”

This year’s choice to put on “The Play That Goes Wrong” meant a shift from the department’s norm.

“It kind of flips plays on its head,” Cataldi said.

For Cataldi, the play meant more.

“It’s just fun to be able to hang out with all my friends in it, and I was really debating not doing the play, and I almost dropped out of it, but I stuck with it and I’m really enjoying it,” Cataldi said.

Bajaj lectures on plastic surgery
Science teacher Trevor Swink’s anatomy classes hosted Dr. Anu Bajaj who presented a lecture Feb. 12 on the requirements for medical school and how to become a doctor.

As a plastic surgeon, Bajaj is well known for her work in reconstruction after breast cancer.

“She writes for the National Board of Plastic Surgery,” Swink said. “She’s on the board for world plastic surgery. She goes to conferences all the time.”

Bajaj also spoke to the Women in Science Club while at the school.

“She’s really big on women in science,” Swink said.

Bajaj showed the classes some of her procedures and discussed the history of plastic surgery.

Wrestling headed to state
Both McGuinness wrestling teams have advanced to the state tournament and looking to make their marks.

For the Irish girls, it’s an accomplishment, but one with room for more, much more.

“We could break our record of only four people qualifying for the state tournament,” said coach Marty Monigold.

Predicting many of his wrestlers to advance, Monigold hopes to beat the 2014 record, building off a successful season thus far. In particular, he predicts that sophomore Nora Thompson will finish strong, hopefully taking her place on the state podium. So far, Thompson remains undefeated in her weight class.

“At the state tournament there are a lot of young girls, so I could very easily see her being on the podium, meaning in the top four at state,” Monigold said.

“Her advantage is that she’s at the lowest weight class that high school has, so there's not a lot of seniors that weigh 100 pounds.”

Monigold said the boys team is predicted to have seven or eight qualifiers, though the competition may be tough.

“Just because the boys bracket has more kids, it might be a little harder and they’re just going to have to do well,” Monigold said.

The teams are set to compete Feb. 26-28 at the Oklahoma City Fairgrounds.