Gleaning Facebook: One-Acts and Spooky Tales

 

Lots of fun yesterday and today. Yesterday I served again as a judge for high school one-act plays. I always enjoy it. We saw five plays, two were very well done. The winning cast featured a wonderful embodiment of a role by a teenaged actor. Wow. The play was "Running Upstream". The role was a teenager dealing with the condescension, pity, embarrassment, and paradoxical extremes of visibility and invisibility that a person with handicaps endures. The kid's brilliant mind and very typical teenage concerns are complicated and cloaked by the twisted body and barely coherent speech caused by cerebral palsy. I haven't been able to put the performance out of mind since yesterday afternoon. Bravo Jake West and North Cobb Christian School one-act cast and theater dept.

Bravo also to second place Bremen High School for another in a long line of excellent performances. You were just up against an extraordinary performance this year.

Today I spent the morning telling spooky stories to our students as they made a rotation though a special craft class, a special "snack" time, and my storytelling time. I told three traditional tales: "Tailypo", "Wiley and the Hairy Man", and "Jack and the Haunted House". And yes, I managed to sneak a number of Georgia Performance Standards unnoticed into the story-brew. (moon phases, light & color, adaptations, and more) Hehehe. Great fun.

Comments:

Tersi Bendiberg: I know the children you were with, today, loved it!

Ruth Baird Shaw: Great title "Running Upstream" for those with physical handicaps.