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Spotlight On!
Written By: Jenny King | Issue: 2015/04 - April
PAC Youth Theater has, over the years, not shied away from tough topics. This year’s play entitled, “Spotlight On: 2 One Act Plays” balances the seriousness of “The Game,” by Dennis E. Noble with the farcical comedy of “How to Capture and Keep a Husband,” by Conrad Seiler.
“The Game” starts out as a comedy but ends in deadly earnest. A scientist assigns each character an area of the stage where they are to play “a game.” This play asks: Why is there so much hate in the world? Why do countries and people fight? Why do different cultures not accept each other?
“How to Capture and Keep a Husband” deals with dating and marriage in the 1950s.
Miss Georgina Quackenbush, herself unmarried, appears on stage to lecture on How to Capture and Keep a Husband. Her talk is illustrated by actors who demonstrate her ideas in a number of amusing scenes.
How is it possible that youth actors will be able to cover such diametrically opposed one-acts? Dr. Ronnie Spilton knows what she’s doing. For the past eight years she has brought to her students an experience that has changed lives by teaching, through theater, confidence, acceptance and dedication. This year’s production includes Sayla Roman, Hayley Hawkins, Stella Wilson, Alex Leitch, Avery Wofford, Madison Schandolph and Jackson Leitch from Highlands School.
Blue Ridge Early College participants include Sarah Ballentine, Destiny Ferra-Martin, Katie Flynn and Polly Ballentine.
Homeschoolers Raina and River Trent have signed on, too. Every student who has auditioned will have an opportunity to perform, but backstage and tech hands are also students.
“Spotlight On: 2 One Act Plays” will be held at the Highlands PAC with performance dates April 23, 24 at 7:30 P.M. and Sunday, April 26 at 2:30 P.M. Tickets may be purchased by calling the PAC box office at (828) 526-9047.
This program is supported by grant money, donations and gifts managed by PAC, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. For more information on how you might help fund this work, contact Mary Adair Leslie, Executive Director of PAC, (828) 526-9047.
