Whitehall Drama took THE CAVE CAT, written in 1976 by Ford Ainsworth, to state competitors on the Montana Thespian Festival on the University of Montana in Missoula over the weekend. WHS competed towards faculties from throughout the state, together with Hellgate High, Great Falls, Sentinel, Hardin, Big Sky, Capital High, CMR, Plains, Helena, Billings Senior, Gallatin, and Bozeman. This was the primary time in fifteen years that WHS Drama has competed at competition.
Eleven college students and two chaperones took within the competition, with over 25 workshops held along side the supplied pupil performs. Students had been capable of attend courses on every part from screenwriting and stage administration to creating costumes and cinematography. On Friday, February sixteenth the scholars loved the University of Montana’s manufacturing of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
WHS Drama was adjudicated by two judges instantly after their Saturday morning efficiency. While the group didn’t convey home any awards, the judges’ critique shall be put to make use of within the upcoming Whitehall performances of THE CAVE CAT on March eighth and ninth at 6 PM within the WHS Multi-Purpose room.
THE CAVE CAT is a timeless story with a little bit of a twist. The play’s theme is the wrestle of youth to surmount the established conventions of a society that divides all cats into three rigidly maintained classes.
At the outset, the idealistic young cat (junior Lele Martin) feels that she is a misfit since she doesn’t possess the traits of her respectable middle-class “lion” dad and mom (sophomore Addisyn Gray and home-schooler Landon Popalis.
As she struggles to ascertain her true id, nevertheless, she discovers that these traits are solely masquerade costume items which obscure the truth that all lions, her dad and mom included, are actually solely plain cats like herself. At the core is the determined wrestle of the individual to take care of integrity underneath the pressures of social conformity.
As the cave cat makes her solution to the reality, she encounters the Lion Chicks (eighth grader Lilly Schober and home-schooler Sydalee Jenkins), the Priest Cat (sophomore Jordan Mercer), the tigers Zelma (sophomore Coya Kelley), Zula (eighth grader Zoey Lyons, and Ziggy (freshman Jeannette Blazevich), and the Leopard Chick (freshman Allanah Leonti).
This one-act play is directed by WHS drama teacher Liz Pullman, with eighth grader Ierlyn Kelley serving as stage supervisor. Sawyer Osborne was unable to attend the competition as a result of an harm however shall be working the lights on the native productions.
While the play is brief and has a minimal set, this one-act packs a whole lot of punch with robust make-up, costumes, and touching material. Admission shall be $5 per person; donations to WHS Drama are accepted and appreciated.
