“Multiplex” was hilarious, witty, meaningful, well-directed, and pretty much everything that constitutes an exceptional play.

Performed Feb. 12-13 in the school theater, “Multiplex” was the Play Production class’s first performance of the year. The performance also included monologues, scenes and songs, some of which won awards at the recent Lenaea Festival in Folsom on Feb. 7-8.

Act I, which consisted of these award-winning monologues, scenes, and song, opened with Bryce Woodward singing “Corner of the Sky.” His whole performance was polished and blew everyone away by ending the song in a glass shattering falsetto.

Next up was senior Kaelin Delaney as Norma in “Plaza Suite,” which is about a lady distressed by the sight of her husband who had hung himself. Delaney pulled off the distressed wife part flawlessly and it’s worth noticing her pantomimes that would be the envy of even a French mime.

Following “Plaza Suite” was “Wonder of the World,” about two girls on a bus to Niagara Falls, portrayed by junior Christy Spence and junior Kate Grimmer. This scene was delightfully light-hearted and witty, with a much deeper reaming near the end.

Junior Jon Dadgari portrayed a character in “Biloxi Blues” who was hung by the feet off the ceiling for asking someone to flush the toilet. Dadgari performed this monologue with staggering passion, but parts of his monologue were difficult to hear and understand.

Senior Emily Crowder’s voice gave a very princess reminiscence in her performance of the song “Much More”.

In “Barefoot in the Park,” junior Taylor Karst and Woodward played a newlywed couple arguing and eventually deciding to get a divorce. Woodward’s acting in this scene was especially great.

Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better, senior Kimiya Shokri performed from “Steel Magnolias” a monologue about a mother who watched her son, Shelby, die. Shokri poured her heart out into this monologue and brought her character alive in the heart-breaking monologue. Shokri was truly spectacular in this performance.

Following this was “Don’t Tell Her” by senior Pierce Woodward, a piece he wrote that won a Respondent’s Choice Award at the festival. The storyline of his monologue wasn’t just any average story about a couple meeting. In “Don’t Tell Her,” a man and a woman meet after a party hungover and puking in the same toilet, instantly creating a bond.

Next was seniors Raz Mostaghimi and Alex Bru in an adorable scene, “Ferris Wheel,” which won gold at the festival. “Ferris Wheel” was about a woman who meets a man while riding a ferris wheel to conquer her fear of heights. The scene ended with a sweet kiss, when Bru said, “I thought maybe if I kissed you, you’d stop talking for a second,” and the possibility of the two meeting once again.

Spence pulled together Act I with an upbeat performance of the lively song “Pulled.”

Act II was the play, “Multiplex” written by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. The play, which earned the class bronze at the festival, started off with Pierce Woodward as Rodney and Bru as a movie theater chair, sitting together in a theater. Their immediate chemistry was astounding, or as astounding as chemistry between a person and an inanimate object could be.

Also in the theater was Mostaghimi as Karma, a young goth woman who has little to say in the beginning of the play.

Next filling in was Delaney and Bryce Woodward as the couple Kendra and Todd. Within the first ten minutes of the play, Kendra announced a surprise pregnancy, and Todd announced a surprise confession about his sexuality.

Crowder and Shokri as Madge and Claire came in next as two business women, Madge being cranky and grouchy, and Claire doing whatever she can to please Madge.

The last to enter were junior Tristan Tuohy and senior Vincent Egawa as D and J, two high school friends with a rocky friendship.

The play starts off with problems between characters and their friends, eventually migrating to problems between strangers, including smalls arguments between D and Madge over D and J spilling candy.

The arguments eventually escalated between Madge and Karma, who cannot control her angry tendencies and loud outbursts, including lines like, “Prepare for judgement, bitches!”

The chair and Rodney also had their own issues, including the chair walking Rodney through how to make friends. One of the chair’s golden pieces of advice being, “But first, tender fair Rodney, you must touch yourself.”

The play ended with a group hug around Rodney, who finally musters enough confidence to tell everyone in the theater that he needs a friend.

The play was impressively put together, and not only were the actors great when speaking, their background actions were equally as expressive, particularly Delaney’s angry stares at her boyfriend.

“Multiplex” was well worth the watch and wonderfully directed, produced, and performed.