Students get theatrical experience

By Tribal News

For Puyallup Tribal News
Published on: June 12, 2008

At 11a.m. May 13, 33 students and six teachers loaded up a bus and left for Ashland, Oregon for the Third Annual Chief Leschi Oregon, Shakespeare Fes-tival Field Trip.

Students attended three plays, three prologues to the plays, three theater workshops, a backstage tour and a campus tour of Southern Oregon University (SOU).

Included in this year’s play selection was the world premiere of “Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter,” a contemporary play about an Iraq War veteran and her difficulties returning home to her family; “The Clay Cart,” a 2,000-year-old play about the complexities of love and social class; and a disco interpretation of Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

All of the plays were excellent but “Midsummer Night’s Dream” with a giant mirror ball and an all-cast disco-dance review ending was definitely the standout of the shows.

For some students, this trip provided their first experience seeing a live play. In the theater workshops students learned about performance, stage combat, and stage make-up. The group stayed in SOU dorms and ate in the college cafeteria.

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