Megan Oakes, also a talented Wolf volleyball player, applies makeup before a performance. (Amanda Rice photos)
CHS theater guru Peg Tennant.
If you read the name of this blog it says Coupeville Sports.
That’s right.
It doesn’t say Coupeville SportsDramaScienceWoodWorkingToiletRepair. It says Sports.
Which hasn’t stopped anyone from trying to push me towards the path of bettering myself by occasionally covering other things in town. And, as they point out, there are two words in the name of the blog, and one of those is Coupeville.
So, from time to time, I have dropped in some other things, especially those related to the middle and high school. So, that’s why, ONCE IN AWHILE, you get Science Olympiad, Pep Band or Andy Walker winning prestigious awards for his stage monologues.
Just don’t get used to it.
Now, the use of photos every time a car runs into a building in Oak Harbor (an almost weekly occurrence)? That just amuses me, and gets a lot of freakin’ page views each time.
But anyways, we now head off to the world of stage acting, whose people are nothing if not determined.
A bit obsessed, actually, but in a good way, they are relentless in their desire for me to mention that CHS has two more performances of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” this weekend.
Show times are 7 PM Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11 in the Performing Arts Center at the high school.
It’s a work by a fairly unknown writer, from what I understand. A Billy Shakespeare. May have played some football, I’m told. Was fond of saying “To tackle or not to tackle? That is the question.”
Normally mild-mannered CHS English teacher Barbara Ballard went all Roger Ebert on everyone after seeing the play.
Her reaction: “Incredible production. The whole town of Coupeville should see it. Most lively and articulate and FUN production I’ve seen on this stage yet!! What a cast!! What a crew!! What a play!! What a director!!!!!”
So, there you go. 13 exclamation points from a teacher who thinks I go a bit overboard when I use two of them.
And now a roll call of the students who have worked together, under the tutelage of Peg Tennant and Amanda Rice, to make Ballard lose her freakin’ mind:
Desirae Bradley
Bella Cedillo
Sebastian Davis
Nik Harkins
Amanda Hoesman-Foley
Joye Jackson
Alex Johnson
Dani Johnson
Julia Jones
Miranda Kortuem
Megan Oakes
Emily Reid
Katie Reid
Maureen Rice
McKenzie Rice
Rebecca Robinson
Julianne Sem
Josh Steinagel
Andy Walker
Sebastian Wurzrainer
K T Wynn
Sam Wynn
Well done, one and all.
For whether it is in the sporting world, or any of the many other diverse worlds which make up a town like Coupeville, we can all aspire to the words of Muhammad Ali.
“Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.”
So, if we bend the name of the blog a bit from time to time to cheer on any among us who is reaching for their dream, so be it.
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