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General News: H.S. Drama Club Presents Life's Lessons
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| Rich Aufiero directs |
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| The group ensemble |
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| The group sings |
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| ...and dances |
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| Storytellers on the block |
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| The itsy-bitsy spider finds strength |
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| Beethoven inspires a life |
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| The mother of the bride plans the perfect wedding |
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| The young couple finds happiness anyway |
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| A Christmas story |
November 08, 2007
Is there wisdom to be found in the mundane aspects of life? Can we find a life lesson in the problems we face everyday? The writer Robert Fulgham excelled at picking small truths out of practical experiences and presenting them to the public. His books have sold millions of copies, read by people who find common meaning despite living in 93 different countries around the world.
Theatre-goers this weekend will have a chance to find their own meaning when Fulgham’s stories are brought to the stage by 35 talented actors from the Cornwall High School Drama Club in “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.”
Drama Club director Rich Auferio selected this play to mark his 10th season as director/advisor to the student actors because he wanted a production that would include a large ensemble cast, rather than a handful of performers.
Aufiero writes in the program that the production is a storytelling piece that is intended to be performed with simplicity, honesty and humor.
The stage set is simple – a handful of giant children’s blocks with fly-away screens hung in the background to project a series of words and images. The actors’ costumes are designed to highlight the performers universality, each wearing jeans and turtlenecks with few defining characteristics.
The show begins with a large ensemble number by “kindergartners” and is followed by a series of powerful vignettes that touch on a variety of human experiences from childhood to old age.
For Auferio, these lessons are part of drama itself and he included some inspiring thoughts from the New York State Theatre in Education Association in the program. NYSTEA notes that theatre touches on most of the academic subjects in school and that it is taught “so one will be human, so one will recognize beauty, so one will be sensitive, so one will be closer to an infinite beyond this world, so one will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good, in short, more life.”
Come see for yourself on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 9, 10, and 11, when “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” will be staged at Cornwall Central High School.
Click here for dates and times.
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