Coming to a realization that you must seize the day and not sweat the small stuff is the basis of the new school play, “Yolo,” showcased by the Davidson School senior drama club this past week.

“Yolo” is a collective play written by the club who also stage and star in the production. They performed the play before a packed house in the Davidson School gym last Tuesday night for dinner theatre before bringing it on the road to Drama Festival in Unity April 19 and 20.

Jasmine Smith, stage manager with the senior drama club, said the group started the process of writing the play last October, beginning with character development before moving on to the plot and setting.

“It was a lot harder than we ever imagined,” Jasmine said, noting they received a lot of help from their director Arlene Low throughout the process. “It started with The Big Bang Theory as basically our skeleton and then we added to each of those characters to make the casting of the people who were playing them have their personality show.

“We had Matthias (McCreary), so we took his character and we thought ‘how could we make Matthias turn into this character and give him mannerisms that Matthias would have on stage.'”

Matthias, who plays Lance in “Yolo,” said modelling the characters after themselves made it a “little easier to act” their parts on stage. He said the most difficult part about writing their own play was trying to “fit in” all the ideas they wanted to express.

Brad Brazeau, who plays the character Stanley, said the club was strictly writing the play for the first two months of production. He said they started to put it together on stage in January, which also gave them a chance to fill in any blanks in the script that they came across during rehearsals.

“It was something that not many of us have tried before,” Brad said, “so it was definitely a fun experience.”

To read more please see the April 29 print edition of The Davidson Leader.