A performance of “The Children’s Story” by James Clavell, directed by Leland Meade-Miller will showcase the talents of PaliHi seniors Sam Korobkin, Skyler Kirkpatrick, Finn Snyder, Maya Jenson, Kiera Needham, Amelie Marie Butler, Chloe Lynch, Lucie Hodgson, Anoushka Evdokimov-Hoeren, Bailey Kirshner and Remy Beland among additional senior performances beginning May 1 at 7 p.m.
Photo: Samantha Collins
In a final hoorah for more than 60 seniors in Palisades High’s theater program, the senior show “Assumptions” will premier on Thursday, May 1 at 7 p.m with additional performances on Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3 in Mercer Hall. Tickets are $10 for students, $15 for general admission and $20 for VIP seating.
“Assumptions” is a night of theater composed of three short stories that have been adapted into one-act plays, all senior directed and adapted. The show opens with “The Lottery,” an adaptation of the Shirley Jackson short story about a farming town in the Midwest in the 1950s performing their annual Lottery, a quaint town tradition with sinister undertones.
We go next to an elementary school classroom in the mid-1970s to see “The Children’s Story,” adapted from a short story by James Clavell.
It is the day after the United States has just been conquered and a new teacher is being brought in to educate, or reeducate, the children.
A performance of “The Children’s Story” by James Clavell, directed by Leland Meade-Miller will showcase the talents of PaliHi seniors Sam Korobkin, Skyler Kirkpatrick, Finn Snyder, Maya Jenson, Kiera Needham, Amelie Marie Butler, Chloe Lynch, Lucie Hodgson, Anoushka Evdokimov-Hoeren, Bailey Kirshner and Remy Beland among additional senior performances beginning May 1 at 7 p.m. Photo: Samantha Collins
We travel from the not-so-distant past to the far future with “All Summer in a Day,” adapted from the short story by Ray Bradbury. We enter a human colony on Venus, where a class of students is eagerly awaiting the arrival of the sun, which can only be seen through the rain every seven years.
However, as only one child—a new arrival from Earth—has ever seen the sun, some students do not have faith that it will come
“I am so impressed with the seniors intelligence, creativity and work ethic,” said drama teacher Nancy Fracchiolla. “This is a unique and demanding piece of must-see theatre.”
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