Middle School Drama Team: The Show Must Go On!
In a world where being socially distant is the new normal, it can make activities such as putting on plays, a little more challenging. But that is not discouraging Middle School Drama teacher Jenni Brown from finding a way for the show to go on.
Brown started off the year by shifting her typical lessons to focus more on small group skits, improv, and socially distant games.
“I still wanted to have a performance,” Brown said, “so the plan is to have a night for each grade where they will perform to an audience of their families.”
The sixth grade is doing Red Writing Hood, a one-act play telling the story of Red Riding Hood who changed the script to make her fairy tale friends happy, but instead, everything goes wrong! Thankfully, the FBI (Fairytale Believers Incorporated) comes in to help save the day.
“Half of the students will narrate the lines,” said Brown, “and the other half will act out the play wearing paper mache heads that they made in art class.”
7th and 8th graders will be performing monologues, where only one person will be on the stage at a time.
The Middle School Drama performances will take place on March 24, 25, and 26 and will be open only to the performers' families.
