PERFORMING ARTS 14
Pieces of Our World Alone, Together All School Play How do you make Theater, an art form that relies so strongly on connection and community, when we are living at home and seeing each other often trapped in tiny video boxes, as if the world were French Mimes given voice (except when the Mute button is annoyingly engaged!). In June and July, as the Pandemic raged, Black Lives Matter and other calls for racial justice took to the streets; killer hornets flooded the news and we were unsure how school might open and we might make theater happen, the thought occurred that documenting those crazed months, through the creative lens of our students, might be the way to go forward. The idea was to create an original piece that would capture the voices of our community in this time: how we’ve changed over the last 10 months and how we’ve found hope, grieved, confronted challenges, found humor and what dreams we have for the future. And perhaps that these hopes, thoughts and aspirations would resonate with others in the world beyond our small region. Be well, stay safe, and when things seem overwhelming, Listen with the Ear of your Heart, to those around you. We will all get through this together. John Sugden, Director (excerpt from play program)
