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Magic in air, magic on stage

Posted in Drama, tagged , , , , on May 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Opening on a stage near you next week. (Poster by Sydney Wallace)

Four years later, the magic is coming to the stage.

After the pandemic threw a wrench into things, the Coupeville High School Theater Department has regrouped to revive its production of Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic.

The play, written by Matt Cox, hits the CHS stage May 9-11, with performances at 7:00 PM.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for students, and $5 for students with ASB.

Puffs is “a very familiar story about finding out you are a wizard and being swept away to a school of magic,” said CHS drama instructor Stefanie Ask.

“But our show isn’t about that character.

“Our show is about Hufflepuffs, or Puffs, and being the unassuming lovable underdog we all find ourselves to be at one time or another.”

Ask and her students were deep in the rehearsal process in March 2020, when Covid arrived to throw things asunder.

“When the world paused, so did our heartfelt little play,” she said.

“It was heartbreaking to realize that the show we thought we sat aside for a few weeks of shutdown was not going to come to fruition at all for that wonderful cast of humans.

“Together we mourned (on GoogleMeets) for the theater experience that we should have had together as Puffs.”

Cut to four years later and Ask and a new group have revived the play and are dedicating it to those who were part of the original cast and crew.

“An entirely new combination of wonderful humans assorted into a cast, and we are finally bringing our sweet, funny, little underdog story to the stage for an audience” she said.

“We hope they’ll be out there in the audience (or elsewhere on their own heroic adventures) hearing our “Third or Nothing!” cheer and feeling the bond they share with today’s cast.”

 

The crew:

Director – Stefanie Ask
Stage Manager – Danni Demers
Light Technicians – Oktober Frost, Reina Reed
Sound Technician – Hailee Wells
Costume Designer – Nevaeh Hertlein-Darby
Set/Prop Team – Peyton Caveness, Nick Shelly, Zac Tackett

 

Cast:

Jorja Auen
Gareth Bevill
Peyton Caveness
Brooke Crosby
River Dearmond
Emma Garcia
Miles Gerber
Marz Halstead
Elizabeth Lo
Pamela Morrell
Michael Robinett
Lina Shelly
Cedar Socha
George Spear
Sydney Wallace
Zak Weatherford
Doc Wertz

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Prairie powerhouse snags stage spotlight

Posted in Drama, tagged , , , , on March 6, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Avery Parker is ready for her closeup, Mr. De Mille. (Photo courtesy Corinn Parker)

The kid has mad skills.

Avery Parker, the prairie Rembrandt whose artwork kept Coupeville Sports afloat in the darkest hours of the pandemic, is back at it.

Already a stage veteran with multiple ballet shows to her credit, she’s now essaying the lead role in Coupeville Elementary’s production of Matilda.

The play, presented by the CES Drama Club, runs this Friday and Saturday, Mar. 8-9, with the curtain rising at 6:30 P.M.

Things go down in the high school’s Performing Arts Center, and admission is free.

Though you are more than welcome to make a donation or purchase a munchable or two from the bake sale.

Proceeds benefit Parker and her fellow thespians.

On a side note, if you’re smart, get an autograph now, then slap that baby under glass and wait for its value to skyrocket as Wolf Nation’s #1 diva takes over the world.

You can thank me later.

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CHS Theater Troupe plans a “Trap”

Posted in Drama, tagged , , , , on April 29, 2022| 1 Comment »

Coupeville High School senior Brian Casey joins the cast in the school’s first stage production in three years. (Photos courtesy Stefanie Ask)

They’re back.

The Coupeville High School Theater Troupe is performing for the first time in three years and will present the mystery play Trap May 5-7.

Written by Stephen Gregg, the production centers around an event where the audience at a high school play falls unconscious, with one exception.

Mixing “interviews with witnesses, loved ones, first responders, and the investigators pursuing the case” the story follows “an increasingly dangerous web as it becomes clear that this phenomenon might not be entirely in the past.”

The stage is set … for mystery.

Performances of the spring theater production go down in the high school’s Performing Arts Center, with each of the three nights kicking off at 7:30 PM.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for students, and $5 for students with an ASB.

 

Production Crew:

Stefanie Ask – Director
Milo Socha – Assistant Director
Gabriella Becktell – Lighting Tech
MacKenzie Phillips – Tech Booth Support
Kira Jorgenson – Soundboard Tech
Brooke Crosby – Costumer

 

Cast:

Cecilia Acevedo
Adrian Burrows
Katie Buskala
Brian Casey
Brooke Crosby
Lucy Crouch
Noelle Daigneault
Riverwind DeArmond
Hayley Fiedler
Elizabeth Lo
Katelin McCormick
Pamela Morrell
Abby Mulholland
M. Safford
Brenna Silveira
Birdie Sinclair
Milo Socha
Amanda Thomas

 

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Your bucks fuel their theater dreams

Posted in Drama, tagged , , , , on February 7, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Your donations can help fuel the theatrical work of Wolves like Jaschon Baumann (left) and Tiger Johnson. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The arts need your help.

The Coupeville High School Wolf Pac Theater Troupe is gearing up for a busy spring season, with production of a play and a trip to the Washington State Theater Festival.

But to get everything accomplished, Coupeville’s thespians could use a little financial help.

The troupe is running a fundraiser, with the goal of raising $3,000 to cover expenses.

The money would send CHS students to Ellensburg in March for the theater festival, while also covering construction and building costs for a production of Shakespeare in Hollywood.

“Our young actors and actresses, as well as technicians, have been working very hard to produce quality live theatre for our community,” said troupe director Stefanie Ask. “Any and all support is greatly appreciated.”

Written by Ken Ludwig, Shakespeare in Hollywood is set in 1934 and features two of the Bard’s most-famous characters, Oberon and Puck, who suddenly pop onto the set of a movie production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Caught up in the magic of the silver screen, the duo soon find themselves playing the roles they were born to play – themselves.

Donations are tax deductible, and you will receive a receipt for your gift.

To find out more and donate, pop over to:

https://www.snap-raise.com/fundraisers/coupeville-high-school-theater-2018-2

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Time to break a leg!!

Posted in Drama, tagged , , , , on October 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »

The Coupeville High School drama troupe presents its fall showcase Oct. 25-27.

It’s time to get dramatic.

The Coupeville High School drama troupe hits the stage the next three nights to present their fall showcase, a mix of short scenes, monologues and a student-written piece.

Performances are Oct. 25-27 in the school’s PAC, with curtain lifting at 6:30 PM each night. Cost is $6 or free to those with ASB cards.

Act One kicks off with Touched By An Alien, an “out of this world, wacky adventure,” with a “Star Trek feel.”

Featured actors are Lily Zustiak, Knight Arndt, Eric Webster, Chandell Schoonover and Ricky Rebischke-Smith.

After that comes a monologue from William Shakespeare’s Henry V, performed by Helen Sinclair, Sis Hopkins’ Audition: A Monologue, performed by Amanda Thomas, and DNA, a “serious monologue about falling asleep in class,” performed by Ricky Rebischke-Smith.

The first act closes with The Spy, a student-written piece by CHS seniors Tiger Johnson and Jaschon Baumann.

The plot is hush-hush, but the writers star alongside Jakobi Baumann.

When the curtain rises for act two, you’ll get No Cell Signal, a “relatable monologue about shoddy signal,” performed by Sinclair.

Then comes Arabian Nights, “a scene of a questionable interpreter, and far away destinations,” with Casey Rogers, Rose Dale, and Elaira Nicolle.

Stuck, “a sweet story of panic in an elevator and love,” comes to us from the duo of Tamika Nastali and Johnson, while Willie, the Angelic Child, a monologue performed by Marissa Williams, is told from the point of view of a “wacky stage-mom like mother, and her crazier child.”

Rounding out the evening is The Philadelphia, an “absurdist look at black holes, cheese steak, and Philadelphia,” with Sinclair and Arndt essaying the roles.

Keeping everything humming along will be stage manager extraordinaire Madison Rixe.

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