On Friday 13th March, PLC hosted the 17th annual Carlton Cup \u2013 a theatresports competition between Newington and PLC that\u2019s notorious for never letting a team win twice. The winner has consistently alternated between PLC and Newington, but last year, we broke the cycle and won twice in a row. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year, we won for the third time in a row \u2013 which is the first time it\u2019s been done in the competition\u2019s history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each school brought 5 teams and a combined total of fifty competitors, making the night a show to remember. The show ran in three sets, each with different theatresports games. Beginning with a one-minute section, players got up on stage improvised scenes entirely on the spot with no communication, a location and five seconds to plan. Some highlights included a thrilling mime in an escape room from the team \u201cBest Extras\u201d, featuring Newington\u2019s MVP of the night, Nam Nguyen, and an \u2018I Love You\u2019 from \u201cBest Pirate Impression\u201d, where a character has to say \u201cI love you\u201d to something within a minute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kicking it off with a bang, we moved onto the round of two-minute games, the extra time a much-needed help to create a good scene. This was immediately evident in the only perfectly scored scene of the night again from \u201cBest Pirate Impression\u201d \u2013 an \u2018Entrances and Exits\u2019, where exactly two people have to be onstage at all times. Their scene at an amusement park had everything from moving heads quitting to a missing attraction to inducting a visitor into getting locked into a lifelong job as a head in the funhouse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The top two teams from each school made it to the final three-minute round: only the best to cup off the show. Both Newington teams chose to improvise a \u2018Time Warp\u2019, where the announcer can change the time of the scene anytime to anywhere. They both performed incredibly, pulling ahead of PLC\u2019s \u2018Broadway Musical\u2019 scenes (performing a new Broadway musical with only a title) by just a few points, securing the victory that Newington has been awaiting for nearly two decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From flying cars to a victory against all the odds, the Carlton Cup this year was certainly a night to remember, and the trophy will hopefully remain in our cabinet for years to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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