It was about 5am when we all woke up and wandered out of bed down our hall ways and stumbled into our showers. at about 5:50am I loaded up the car and drove it to our Director of Environmental Affairs, Jared Hanson's house, and switched out my car for his van. After loading the tables, Tarpaulin, and Poster we set off to pick up Nicolas Tonkin and Chris Lorenz. We arrived to find them almost ready and we got into the van and were preparing to set out. We ended up having to wait about five minutes while Chris found his khaki pants.

_{Nicolas Tonkin}

After we were all situated in the van we were "Oscar Mike" and set off towards the street fair. It was 6:30 now and we realized after rechecking our paper that set up was not at 7:00 but at 7:30 and now had an hour  to burn. We also realized we had forgotten chairs, and since no one wanted to stand all day, we deiced it was only logical to go get chairs. Back across Mira Mesa we drove and finally arrived at my house. We loaded  up chairs and set off to Jared's house again to get  clip boards that we needed then back to Chris Lorenz's house to retrieve our hand outs we had forgotten. Most of us had been up until 2am that morning putting the finishing touches on the website and had gotten no more than three hours of sleep and could hardly think.

We set off for Camino Ruiz, the location of the street fair. At 7:15 we pulled up to the ROTC check point and were allowed to pass into the fair. We parked the van in the middle of the street and unloaded the vehicle.  After we set up, we walked back to the van to move it off the street only to find the battery had died, as we had been warned it might. We tried opening the hood of the van to take a look but we could not find  the latch to open the hood. We searched high and low of well over ten minutes. Finlay it was found that it was a small metal cord near the break. The hood was popped and it was deiced we should move the van  into the parking lot. We had some students help push the van and parked it in the lot. Before we jumped the model 1902, we decided what we really need to do was eat.

We all ran over to grab a hamburger and scarfed those down. Chris Liang drove home to get his jumper cables and before no time the two were hooked up. We jumped them no problem and the van was alive again. We then made our way back to our booth to set up the remaining things and get the table cloths on. We made a few runs over to the dollar tree to pick up last minute items, but for the most part things went smooth after that. It was a very successful day we handed out well over 500 flyers for 'Laughing Wild' and our Pepsi Refresh Grant. From all of the members of PCTC we thank you for coming out and supporting us at the street fair.

_{Christopher Liang}

It seems like only yesterday when we were sitting at that taco shop brainstorming ideas for what would become Pacific Coast Theatre Company. Gathered around the table we discussed what we wanted to see and do with our group of techies. We all agreed having a strong base in the technical realm of theatre would give us an advantage, we already knew the back workings of how to run a show: directing, choreography, lights, sound, set design, house crew, marketing. Not to mention it would save us a lot of time and money not having to find and pay people to do the tech work.

It was true having a core staff of people that knew all of the technical know how was a great help to our infant company. For our first production to save money we decided to go with Shakespeare, all of his plays have no royalty fees which can be a burden to a young company. However, we wanted to try something different. We had not heard of anyone in the Mira Mesa area presenting a reduced version of Shakespeare's works. We decided, quite hastily upon a date for our show to go up. The date was picked and we got some copies of Hamlet, Othello, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth.

Our CWO, Gustavo Garcia and I started reading these like crazy and deciding what we could cut out. The original plan was to name the show '50 Minutes of Shakespeare' and have the show run about 50 minutes. The problem was as we started to rewrite these great classics, they got harder to shorten and we were no where near having them reduced into a 50 minutes. We rushed to finish the script two days before our auditions we had scheduled. We finished them, I believe at 2am that morning.

With scripts in hand we went down to rehearsals. We waited inside nervously wondering if any of the people walking down the street were here for auditions, in fact we wondered if anyone would show up for the auditions. We sat waiting and finally people started to come into the office. We ended up getting an amazing assortment of people including a man on vacation from Texas who was in San Diego long enough to be in the show.

We had amazing cast... and doll that were great to work with. They were funny and hard working. That doll, buster, however would never open his mouth and I believe was missing an arm or leg. We had some problems during rehearsals, from people saying the cursed word Macbeth out of context on stage, and a fire alarm going off at 10pm at our dress rehearsal, but we overcame every problem. None of it would have been possible with out the help of Daniel Kriely, Art Spurlock, Mira Mesa High School admins, and our amazing cast and crew. It was defiantly a good flagship production that sent the company going in the right  direction

It was an amazing experience and one that, for the most part I remember fondly.

_{Front row: Scott Butler and Buster
Back row: Megan, Gustavo Garcia Jared Hanson}