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Upper School Spring Play Puts a Twist on a Classic Legend

By Hannah Garcia May 22, 2024
A person with pale makeup and disheveled hair points forward with a smile, standing behind another seated person dressed in period costume with a somber expression. Other similarly dressed individuals are blurred in the background.

It may not be spooky season yet but the Lindberg-Serries Theater was a veritable haunted house in the Upper School’s production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. This classic Upstate New York legend was reimagined by director Ross MacDonald and students Hannah Brodsky ’25 and Amhad Khalid ’26 as an interactive experience for the audience. 

The 65-minute immersive play follows Ichabod Crane (Gordon Miller ’27), a small-town school teacher with a penchant for ghost stories as he tries to court the most eligible bachelorette in the town, Katrina Van Tressel (Sandy Narayan ’27). Meanwhile, romantic rival Brom Van Brunt (Alec Bailey ’26) schemes to eliminate the competition by playing into local superstitions and chasing Crane through the forest (played by the audience) as the Headless Horseman.

Eventually, after dueling proposals by Crane and Van Brunt, Katrina chooses the latter. Devastated, Crane rides through the forest and is never seen again. Legend has it that the Headless Horseman dragged him away since the town never found the body of the schoolteacher. 

BB&N will take the show on the road to the Fringe Festival in Scotland over the summer, participating in one of the largest performance arts festivals in the world. Thank you to directors and designers Ross MacDonald, Adam Howarth, and Louise Brown for their work reimagining a classic tale. 

Four actors in period costumes perform a scene on stage. One actor gestures expressively in the foreground, while three others interact in the background. .
A person dressed in historical attire, holding a mandolin, performs on stage. Seated audience members and musical instruments can be seen in the background.
Three individuals are watching shadow puppets of a house and a tree being projected onto a screen in a dark room.
A person with long, curly hair, wearing a beige costume and stage makeup, sits on the floor with legs apart and arms folded in front, performing in a theater setting with chairs in the background.
A person in historical attire holds a lantern on stage, illuminated by stage lights, with an audience in the background.
Actors in historical costumes perform in front of a seated audience. One actor holds a lantern and another appears to kneel. The setting is dimly lit, creating an atmosphere of mystery.
A young man in period costume reads a paper in a dimly lit room with other similarly dressed individuals and onlookers in the background.
A person in colonial-era costume with a white wig and face makeup performs under stage lighting.
A person with curly hair, dressed in 18th-century style attire and a hat, is illuminated by stage lights while performing.
Two actors on stage, with one wearing a historical dress and bonnet, and the other in period costume. They appear to be engaged in dialogue.
A group of people, including a smiling girl in the foreground, are holding wooden shapes above their heads in a dimly lit setting.
Two people in costume, one holding a decorative lantern with a candle, providing light. The scene appears to be part of a theatrical performance with other people in background.
A person holds a lantern and leans forward on a dim stage, while two others raise wooden tree branches in the background.
A group of people in a dimly lit room, one person holds wooden objects up while another, wearing glasses and curly hair, seems to be making a gesture. Chairs and some seated individuals are in the background.
A person dressed in 18th-century style costume with a white wig and pale makeup is illuminated under stage lighting, with people in the dim background.
A person with pale makeup and disheveled hair points forward with a smile, standing behind another seated person dressed in period costume with a somber expression. Other similarly dressed individuals are blurred in the background.
Three actors in historical costumes perform on a stage. Two of them, a woman and a young boy, face each other, while another stands between them, looking on. An audience member is visible in the background.
Two people in period costumes engage in a conversation. One wears a large, floral hat and has curly, light-colored hair.
Four people in vintage costumes stand on stage with a blue backdrop. Two shadows are visible on the backdrop. One person sits on the floor, and another kneels while two interact in the foreground.
Three people dressed in 18th-century period clothing are engaged in conversation. One person wears a pink dress and hat, another a beige gown, and the third a brown outfit with a white wig.
Two people dressed in historical costumes on stage, one is lying down while the other kneels over them with a concerned expression.
Person with long, gray, messy hair and light-colored clothing stands on a stage with a finger raised to their lips, suggesting silence. Seated audience members observe attentively in the background.
A person with long, light-colored hair stands facing another person who is sitting and smiling. Several people are seated and observing in the background.
Person with long, curly, silver hair stands against a blue-lit background, dressed in a neutral-colored outfit.
Person lying on the ground with eyes closed, holding a dagger in one hand, under blue and purple lighting.
A person in period costume stands with arms outstretched, looking upward under blue and pink stage lighting.
Person in period costume, illuminated by stage lights, gazes intently at their hand. Audience members in the background watch attentively.

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