A Series of One-Acts
Saturday, September 28, 2024
3, 4, and 5 p.m.
Join us for an event highlighting our 9th grade Advance Class, Junior Varsity and Varsity actors. This performance will be 3 uniquely different One-Act plays.
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Buy a ticket and enjoy all three shows or come for just one. Doors will open 15 minutes before each show begins. For the safety of our actors, we will not allow anyone into the theatre after a play has begun. Be sure to come early!
The Book of Everything
Saturday, September 28, 2024
3 p.m.
The 9th Grade Advanced Class presents The Book of Everything about Thomas who is nine and has started writing a book. His father says all important books are about God. Even so, Thomas writes down all the interesting things he sees that other people seem to ignore: tropical fish in the canal, a deluge of frogs, the Son of God popping in for a chat... He also writes down his greatest determination: When I grow up, I'm going to be happy. Featuring Jesus, the angels, the Bottombiter, the startling Mrs Van Amersfoort and a beautiful girl with a leather leg, this is a totally magical story about a child learning to act when faced with fear and wrong.
The Yellow Boat
Saturday, September 28, 2024
4 p.m.
Junior Varsity actors present The Yellow boat, a dramatization based on the true story of David and Sonja Saar's son, Benjamin, who was born with congenital hemophilia and died in 1987 at the age of 8 of AIDS-related complications.A Scandinavian folksong tells of three little boats: "One was blue, one was red and one was yellow as the sun. They sailed far out to sea. The blue one returned to the harbor. The red one sailed home, too. But the yellow boat sailed up to the sun." Benjamin always concluded his bedtime ritual by saying, "Mom, you can be the red boat or the blue boat, but I am the yellow boat."
The Insanity of Mary Girard
Saturday, September 28, 2024
5 p.m.
Varsity actors present The Insanity of Mary Girard, the real-life story of a Philadelphia woman who spent the last 25 years of her life in a mental institution. In 1790, Mary Girard is committed to an asylum. After she became pregnant by another man, her husband had her declared legally insane. Now, she sits in a chair as the "furies" dance around and impersonate people from her past.
