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9th Grade Performance: Comedy Takes Center Stage

The Foote School Performing Arts Department has announced two one-act plays for  this year's ninth-grade theater production, which will be performed December 13 and 14 in the Sandine Theater. 

Each year Foote’s ninth-graders stage their own full-length play, with every student participating as performers, behind the scenes — running lights, working the soundboard, co-directing — or a combination of the two. They chose this year’s one-act plays — The Actor’s Nightmare, by Christopher Durang, and Check Please by Jonathan Rand — for their comic qualities.

The Actor's Nightmare involves an accountant named George Spelvin, who is mistaken for an actor's understudy and forced to perform in a play, not knowing any of the lines or stage directions.

Check Please, one of the most popular one-act plays performed by high school drama programs nationwide, looks at the difficulties involved in blind dates. According to Rand’s own write-up: “Dating can be hard. Especially when your date happens to be a raging kleptomaniac, or your grandmother's bridge partner, or a mime. Check Please follows a series of blind dinner dates that couldn't get any worse -- until they do.”

Performances are December 13, 7:00 p.m., and December 14, 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.