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2008 VHSL National District Theatre Champions:
Power Play
directed by Crystal Douglas

2007-2008 One-Act Festival:
January 31, February 1, and February 2
7:00PM
Students $5 Adults $7
Festival Ticket: Students $12 Adults $15
Festival Tickets allows you to attend all three nights of the One Act Festival

Featuring THIRTEEN shows directed by seniors in IB Theater

THURSDAY, January 31 7PM

Show:
Check Please: Take 2

By Jonathan Rand

Synopsis:
A Romantic Comedy that follows two teenagers, freshly broken up with each other, who are convinced to get back in the dating game. Each has numerous and hilarious blind dates with some pretty unusual people. In the end, after their disastrous and unsuccessful dates, they realize that what they were looking for is right in front of them.

Director:
Ginny Collins

Stage Manager:
Meredith Fletcher

Cast List:

Girl-Devyani Shenoy
Guy-Kyle Lynn
Kim-Adrianna Monteagudo
Hank-Trey Douglas
Donna-KT Fanelli
Lyle-Arthur Farmer
Julia-Katie Rowe
Dewey-Jack O'Donnell
Jackie-Hannah Hartig
Alex-Alison McLean
Cleo-Marisa Seitz
Paul-Justin Ahdoot
Waiter-Elise Glad

Show: Fourteen

By: Alice Gerstenberg

Synopsis:

Fourteen written by Alice Gerstenberg is a comedy about a fancy dinner party. Mrs. Pringle is trying to arrange a sophisticated dinner party between her, her daughter, Elaine, and fourteen of her acquaintences. But, when some of the guests start to phone and say that they cannot come, Mrs. Pringle starts to get a little frantic and tires to find perfect substitutes to fill the empty seats before all the guests arrive. She has a lot of trouble fitting exactly fourteen people at the table without uninviting some, or removing places at the table. The one act is funny and will be a good one to watch.

Director:
Cati Shott

Stage Manager:Jenny Jewell

Cast List:

Mrs. Pringle: Stacy Devers
Elaine: Kim Ness
Dunham: Paul Budge

Show:
Power Play

By Lindsay Price

Congratulations to the cast & crew of Power Play for winning 1st place at the VHSL National District Theatre Festival.

Synopsis:

A gunshot is heard. Which of the five characters did it and why?

Was it the Goth girl? The football star? The super-intelligent geek?

High school violence is a hot media topic, but it is too often simplistically portrayed by putting teens into tidy categories and pointing at the outsider.

Power Play explores the realities and the stereotypes of high school violence - not just the brutal shock of the school shooting, but also verbal harassment and bullying. Violence is about power. So is high school.

Director:
Crystal Douglas

Stage Manager:
Brian Langley

Crew:
Briggite Contreras
Will Glad

Cast List:

Bitter: Marisa Seitz-- Selected for the VHSL ALL STAR One Act Cast
Belly: Teddy Kavros-- Won Best Actor for the National District One Act Festival
Brawn: Blair Hicks-- Selected for the VHSL ALL STAR One Act Cast
Beauty: KT Fanelli-- Selected for the VHSL ALL STAR One Act Cast
Beaker: Emily Wolfteich-- Selected for the VHSL ALL STAR One Act Cast

Show:
One Hundred Lies

By: Alan Haehnel

Synopsis:

In this poignant comedy, teenager Liz Nostrand presents her life as a competition, complete with scoreboard and time clock. The goal of the game: To dramatize, in only 30 minutes, 100 significant lies told by and to Liz.

By the final buzzer, though, we see that the most crucial lies in Liz's life are those she has told herself.

One Hundred Lies brings us in laughing and sends us out thinking

Director:
Christina Bonner

Stage Manager:
Justin Ahdoot

Cast List:

Liz- Kristina Ness
Mom- Hannah Hartig
Dad-Eric G/Bill
Uncle Stew/Peter- Brian Langley
Cousin Dale/Colin- James Belt
Aunt/Sue- Shani Watson
Grandmother/Mary- Katherine Lambertson
Robin/Mindy- Crystal Douglas
Jeremy- Eduardo Abello
Preacher/Friend/Josh- Robert Boyd
Teacher/Stacey- Ally Ouellette
Marge/Ann- Mahelete Tsegahun
Coach/Donna- Charlotte Bates
Mrs.Blodgett/Hannah- Katherine Seidl
Grandfather/Gary- Nick Kwatnoski

FRIDAY, February 1 7PM

Show:

Almost Heaven

By: Stephanie Youngman

Synopsis:

If you thought the SATs were bad, wait until you get to "almost heaven." This is step two, the written portion, of the test to gain entrance proverbial paradise. Former fig-leaf wearer Adam is no stranger to this unearthly waiting room. In fact, it's his seven-hundredth visit and this time he's truly being tested. This time by Greg, an inquisitive podiatrist (foot doctor), and the wisecracking St. Peter. Will Adam finally be granted access through the pearly white gates or is he doomed to roam the earth with yet another new identity?

Director:
Elise Glad

Stage Manager:
Hannah Reynolds

Cast List:

The Almighty Boss- Laura Muth
Adam- Justin Ahdoot
St. Peter- Eduardo Abello
Angel- Ginny Collins
Eve- Stacey Sulko

Dead People:
Alec Bose
Jonathon Holmes
William Glad
Danielle Clark
Hannah Barnheart
Heather Langham
Julie Hirschhorn
Sarah Turner

Show:

Final Dress Rehearsal

by: Jack Frakes

Synopsis:
This is a satire of an amateur theatrical group puttin on a production of Cinderella and all the things which go wrong at the final dress rehersal. The distraught director struggles to pull everything together, as a stubborn "Cinderella" and headstrong "authoress" decide that the show will go their way. The whole rehersal ends in complete chaos, but a curtain callis practiced anyway.

Director:Hannah Hartig

Stage Manager:Shelby Moran

Cast List:
Director: Blair Hicks
Stage Manager: Crystal Douglas
Prompter: Alex Riehle
Utility girl: Shelby Moran
Stagehands: Rachel Huggins and Shani Watson
Stepmother: Adrianna Monteagudo
Step-sister (elder): Maria Wallace
Younger stepsister: Hannah Reynolds
Cinderella: Skyy Spinner
Fairy Godmother: Hope Wentzel
Authoress: Erin Foreman

Show:
Jack vs. Jill

by: Dustin Robert Blakeman

Synopsis:
Jack and Jill meet for the first time after that fateful day on the hill…in a courtroom. Jack – the scar on his crown forever serving as a reminder of his tumble-must defend himself against Jill’s accusations of malicious hill-pushing.

Director:
Stacey Sulko

Stage Manager:
Asia Joyner

Cast List:

Jack: James Belt
Jill: Emily Wolfteich
Prosecution: Robert Boyd
Defense: Justin Ahdoot
Judge: Teddy Kavros
Bailiff: Royce Steed
Mother Goose: Amanda Wessell
Frank Noodlemeyer: Ryan Sheldon
Mysterious Man: Arthur Farmer
Two Men: Greg Loustious and Will Glad
Woman in a Nice Dress: Sarah McCollough

Court case attendees:
Females
Alia Haroon
Elise Glad
Hazel Ruiz
Rachel Huggins
Sohee Park
Viana Azizi

Males
Will Glad
Alec Bose
Brian Langley
Jack O’Donnell
Moises Navarette
Paul Budge

Show:
Brook Across the Sea

by Alan Haehnel

Synopsis:
When Brook's vacation cruise ship goes down in high seas, she awakens in a strange land inhabited by people so obsessed with rushing and working and earning that they've forgotten the reason for their frantic pace. Under the tutelage of the Stranger, the one person who refuses to join the race, Brook finally escapes. This Seuss-esque, rhyming large-cast one-act satirizes the American drive for the almighty More -- more speed, more money, more possessions, more prestige -- and challenges us to examine how we live our lives.

Director:
Ally Foreman

Stage Managers:

Brianna Sonnefeld and Stacy Devers

Cast List:

BROOK: Isabella Ness
PRISONER: Matt Krause
FATHER: Ben Gerke
MOTHER: Kara Ness
DAUGHTER: Mallory Gerndt
SHINTZLE: Emily DiSalvo
BOSS: Jasmine McCormick
COP: Jess Sheldon

TRAFFIC ANNOUNCER: Leanda Hinegardner
MIRANDA: Juliette Cross
ARIEL: Maureen Iredell
STARBUCK: Samuel Glad
SANTIAGO : Harrison Riehle
ANDRINA: Annalisa Sheldahl
ATTINA: Jena Lockard
AQUATTA: Robin Maline
VIRVA: Haley Winter
ARISTA: Sara Schoen
ALCYONE: Katie Forsythe

Passengers:
CORAL: Sierra Smith
BETHANY : Jennifer Gonzales

Crew:
CAPTAIN SMITH: Harrison Riehle
FIRST OFFICER MURDOCH: Samuel Glad

SATURDAY, February 2 7PM

Show:
The Brothers Grimm Specatulathon
by: Don Zolidis

Synopsis:
Two narrators attempt to recreate all 209 of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm in a wild, fast-paced extravaganza. To make it more difficult, they attempt to combine them into one gigantic fable using Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and many more.

Director:
Amanda Wessell

Stage Manager:Kim Ness

Cast List:

Narrator 1.......Brianna Sonnefeld
Narrator 2.......James Belt
Actor..............Jack O'Donnell
Girl.................Britany Coleman
Rapunzel........Maria Wallace
Cinderella.......Stacy Devers
Snow White.....Jenny Jewell
Gretal..............Alex Riehle
Devil #2...........Eduardo Abello
Witch..............Hazel Ruiz
Crazy Compilation of Characters......Arthur Farmer

Show:
Hard Candy

by Jonathan Rand

Synopsis:
Job applicants at Banff Enterprises will do anything to claw their way up the corporate ladder. In a fast-paced series of hilarious interviews, the new recruits try every trick in the book -- from bribery, nepotism, and the Old Boy Network to blackmail, seduction, and mind control, to get the job.

Director:
Shani Watson

Stage Manager:
Silvia Hernandez

Cast List:

Adam- Blair Hicks
Bob- Ryan Sheldon
Cindy- Emily Fischer
Dave - Justin Ahdoot
Emily - Emily Wolfteich
Fred - Eduardo Abello
Gail- Tina Bonner
Harry - Blair Hicks
Ira - Justin Ahdoot
Jill - Kim Ness
Linda - KT Fanelli

Show:
The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet

by Peter Bloedel

Synopsis:
A whimsical reinvention of Shakespeare’s tragic love story, complete with rhymed couplets, creative wordplay, and fantastical machines – similar to something Dr. Seuss might have come up with had he ever had his way with the script.

Director:

Alison McLean

Stage Manager:
Maria Wallace

Cast List:

NARRATOR #1: Britaney Coleman
NARRATOR #2: Devyani Shenoy
PROLOGUE: Katherine Lambertson
SAMPSON: Moises Navarette
GREGORY: Erin Foreman
ABRAM: Kethleyne Beauvais
BALTHASAR: Arthur Farmer
LORD CAPITULATE: Trey Douglas
LADY CAPITULATE: Skyy Spinner
LORD MONOTONE: Royce Steed
LADY MONOTONE: Ally Oullette
PRINCE: Justin Ahdoot
ROMEO: James Belt
BENVOLIO: Arthur Farmer
PARIS: Justin Ahdoot
SERVANT: Laura McCollough
JULIET: Hope Wentzel
NURSE: Hannah Hartig
MERCUTIO: Blair Hicks
TYBALT: Kyle Lynn
MONK LARRY: Royce Steed

Show:
Desire, Desire, Desire

by Christopher Durang

Synopsis:
An uproarious parody of Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire. The story follows Blanche, who feels trapped and alone living with her brutish and unruly brother-in-law Stanley and awaiting the return of her sister, Stella who has been gone for six years to fetch Blanche a lemon Coke. However, it appears her luck is changing when a young census taker comes to the door and gets a whole lot more than he bargained for. Meanwhile Maggie, their dyslexic neighbor keeps entering the wrong apartment on a quest to have a child with her husband, who is known only as Big Daddy. This hilarious and satiric farce offers laughs and absurdism to spare as the entire cast is overtaken with desire, desire, desire!

Director:
Christina Manzo

Stage Manager:
Kit DiSalvo

Cast List:

Blanche- Ally Foreman
Stanley- Blair Hicks
The Young Man- Teddy Kavros
Cora- Hope Wentzel
Big Daddy- Eric Gerard
Maggie- Alex Riehle
Maggie 2- Sky Spinner
Stella- Kelsey Cunning

Show:
Lysistrata

by Aristophanes

Synopsis:
Lysistrata, a woman of Athens, has tired of the constant warfare between various Greek city-states, and so resolves to solve the conflict. She calls together women of each city and persuades them to join her in her efforts. They agree, some more enthusiastically than others, to withhold affection from the husbands until peace is achieved. What follows is a battle of the sexes like no other.

Director:
Laura Muth

Stage Manager:
Emily Fischer

Cast List:

Lysistrata: Crystal Douglas
Kleonike: Kim Ness
Myrrhine: Devyani Shenoy
Lampito: Erin Foreman
Woman: Christina Hanks
Commissioner of Public Safety: Paul Budge
Kinesias: Eduardo Abello
Herald: Ryan Sheldon
Spartan: Arthur Farmer