Monday, January 28, 2013
Drama club’s Winter Play will be staged Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 7-9.
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Monday, January 28
For Lemont High School’s Winter Play, the script will be Shakespearean, faces will be masked, identities will be mistaken -- and the comedy will be slapstick and family friendly. The school’s Drama Club will present its version of “The Comedy of Errors” nightly Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 7 through 9. Performances will begin in the school’s Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. each evening. Tickets, which may be purchased at the door, cost $10 for adults and $7 for children, senior citizens and students with a valid school ID. “The Comedy of Errors,” one of William Shakespeare’s earliest plays, has its slapstick humor rooted in mistaken identity. The play chronicles the story of two sets of identical twins who were accidentally separated …
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Lemont High School students will take the stage Feb. 11-12 to perform the Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
The Lemont High School Drama Club will travel back to "old Lemont" this weekend in their production of the Pulitzer-Prize winning play Our Town. Written by Thornton Wilder, Our Town portrays life in an ordinary New Hampshire town , illustrating the daily routines and personal relationships of an early-20th century American family. In the Lemont High School version, which runs Feb. 11-12 at the school's Performing Arts Center, all references to the “town” are specific to Lemont. For more on the play, click here.
The Lemont High School Drama Club's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Our Town" will run Feb. 11-12 at the school's Performing Arts Center.
When Lemont High School students hit the stage this weekend in Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town, audience members will recognize a number of historical references to their own hometown. Set in the early 20th century, Our Town portrays life in an ordinary New Hampshire town, illustrating the daily routines and personal relationships of an American family. In the Lemont High School Drama Club’s version, which runs Feb. 11-12 at the school's Performing Arts Center, all references to the “town” are specific to Lemont. "We left the original script intact, but changed all of Thornton Wilder's specific references to his (New Hampshire) town to include geographical and historical aspects of Lemont," said director Sharon …
