Wellington Heights school puts on Our Town
MOUNT FOREST – The Wellington Heights Secondary School (WHSS) drama club and the arts department staged Thornton Wilder’s classic play, Our Town, on May 28 to 30 in the school cafetorium in Mount Forest.
Grade 12 student Declan Kuhlmann took on the role of student director, and nearly 40 other students and staff were involved in the production as cast, crew, or production members. The play was produced by WHSS drama teacher, Charlotte Ristich and head of arts Nichola McEwan.
Our Town presented the small town of Grover’s Corners in three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage” and “Death and Eternity.”
Narrated by stage manager Veda McEwan Hosken, and performed with minimal props and sets, the play depicted the simple daily lives of the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fell in love, married and eventually – in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre – died.
“Particularly effective in the WHSS adaptation was the scene where the deceased characters dressed in white to represent old tombstones, and a sombre cortege of townspeople proceeded through the cafetorium with black umbrellas concealing the coffin of the protagonist,” school officials state.
The students presented four productions to the public and also held a student matinee for nearly 200 students from Victoria Cross P.S. and Arthur P.S.
