38 | Spring 2021
Cache Theatre Company’s Production of Matilda Set to Go On EMILY BUCKLEY
editor in chief
Last January, two local middle school-aged girls were double cast and gearing up to take turns performing the demanding lead role in Cache Theatre Company’s production of Matilda. Two weeks before the show’s opening, the COVID-19 pandemic hit Cache Valley and caused all large public gatherings to come to a screeching halt. The show was postponed indefinitely. Although disappointed, the girls, Ella Kelstrom, 11, a 6th-grade student at Thomas Edison South and Tessa Maughan, 13, a 7th-grade student at Spring Creek Middle School, and the rest of the cast, continued practicing individually in hopes that the show would eventually go on.
Ella Kelstrom (left) and Tessa Maughan (right) split the role of the title character in Cache Theatre Company's production of Matilda.
