OV puts on double-header plays this weekend
OTSELIC – This weekend the students of the Otselic Valley Middle and High Schools will be putting on two short animal-themed morality tales on the multi-purpose room stage, “The Ice Wolf” and “Animal Farm.”
Starting at 8 p.m. on Friday and then again at the same time Saturday, the seventh and eighth grade acting troupe will perform the first play, “The Ice Wolf” by Joanna Halpert Kraus.
Following their performance, the audience will be given a 20-minute intermission and a chance to purchase snacks and refreshments at the school’s concession stand, courtesy of the senior class.
The next show, by Ian Woolridge, is a stage adaptation of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”
It will be performed by the high school acting troupe that includes talents from all the high school grade levels.
High School English teacher Mike Foor-Pessin has been directing kids at Otselic Valley for the last 29 years and this year he’s allowed a student director and lead Daniel Larkin to step in and aid the high school production.
Tickets will be $3 for students, $4 for senior citizens and $5 for adults.
The Ice Wolf
In a time before Christianity touched the continent, the Inuits culture was rein over by the native people’s belief in their god Sedna who lives beneath the sea sending nature’s bounties as a sign of good faith.
In this time a special child named Anatou is born in one of the Inuate villages. Born with blond hair and blue eyes she stands apart from the rest of the darker haired and darker eyed members of the small community. Seeing the girl’s birth as a bad omen, the members of the village begin to believe her differences will attract anger from the god Sedna. Eventually the community rejects her in the middle of a harsh famine and she is cast out into the wilderness alone and abandoned. She seeks out the forest, into which no Inuit ever travels and begs the Wood God to turn her into a wolf. He agrees, but makes Anatou promise never to leave the woods or disturb the Inuit village. She must be a good wolf.
“This is a story a lot of kids can relate to – it’s one of rejection, prejudice, tolerance and eventually acceptance and forgiveness,” said Foor-Pessin.
Animal Farm
The farm yard animals rise up against their slave-driving human owners and institute a new order run by the animals themselves. A new government is founded by some of the smartest of the animals, the pigs named Old Major, Napolean and Snow Ball. After leading the animal revolution, the three quickly dissolve into following their own paths of control and ideology in a tale of propaganda and manipulation.
As the story continues to move forward, the woes of the barnyard animals grow and the self-serving exploits of the pigs become even more daring until they surpass even the original human oppressors.
Starting at 8 p.m. on Friday and then again at the same time Saturday, the seventh and eighth grade acting troupe will perform the first play, “The Ice Wolf” by Joanna Halpert Kraus.
Following their performance, the audience will be given a 20-minute intermission and a chance to purchase snacks and refreshments at the school’s concession stand, courtesy of the senior class.
The next show, by Ian Woolridge, is a stage adaptation of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”
It will be performed by the high school acting troupe that includes talents from all the high school grade levels.
High School English teacher Mike Foor-Pessin has been directing kids at Otselic Valley for the last 29 years and this year he’s allowed a student director and lead Daniel Larkin to step in and aid the high school production.
Tickets will be $3 for students, $4 for senior citizens and $5 for adults.
The Ice Wolf
In a time before Christianity touched the continent, the Inuits culture was rein over by the native people’s belief in their god Sedna who lives beneath the sea sending nature’s bounties as a sign of good faith.
In this time a special child named Anatou is born in one of the Inuate villages. Born with blond hair and blue eyes she stands apart from the rest of the darker haired and darker eyed members of the small community. Seeing the girl’s birth as a bad omen, the members of the village begin to believe her differences will attract anger from the god Sedna. Eventually the community rejects her in the middle of a harsh famine and she is cast out into the wilderness alone and abandoned. She seeks out the forest, into which no Inuit ever travels and begs the Wood God to turn her into a wolf. He agrees, but makes Anatou promise never to leave the woods or disturb the Inuit village. She must be a good wolf.
“This is a story a lot of kids can relate to – it’s one of rejection, prejudice, tolerance and eventually acceptance and forgiveness,” said Foor-Pessin.
Animal Farm
The farm yard animals rise up against their slave-driving human owners and institute a new order run by the animals themselves. A new government is founded by some of the smartest of the animals, the pigs named Old Major, Napolean and Snow Ball. After leading the animal revolution, the three quickly dissolve into following their own paths of control and ideology in a tale of propaganda and manipulation.
As the story continues to move forward, the woes of the barnyard animals grow and the self-serving exploits of the pigs become even more daring until they surpass even the original human oppressors.
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