The Volcano School of Arts and Sciences Middle School presents its Theater Night Spring 2016 on Thursday. Each class will perform a one-act play featuring a comic theme. ADVERTISING The Volcano School of Arts and Sciences Middle School presents its
The Volcano School of Arts and Sciences Middle School presents its Theater Night Spring 2016 on Thursday. Each class will perform a one-act play featuring a comic theme.
Sixth grade gives us “Poultry in Motion” by Patrick Rainville Dorn. The fractured fable scrambles the stories of Chicken Little, who believes the sky is falling, and the Little Red Hen, who tries to get her feather-brained friends to stop loafing around and bake some bread. Meanwhile, Foxy Loxy is lurking nearby Young MacDonald’s Free-Range Poultry Farm, hoping to snatch some chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys for an afternoon buffet.
Seventh grade takes on the humorous murder mystery, “No Body to Murder” by Edith Weiss. Bad news — in the form of severe thunderstorms and an escaped convict — threatens the guests at the Come On Inn of Nova Scotia. By the end of the day, gung-ho aerobics instructor Billie Body is mysteriously murdered during a power outage. Was it the cook’s lemonade that poisoned her, or did someone else have a hand in Body’s death? Inspector Black, on the scene in search of the escaped convict, has his job cut out for him. Suspicions rage — from Garth the gardener (who weeds with an ax) to an inept doctor on holiday from malpractice suits to a hairdresser who constantly changes her appearance — everyone has a hidden motive to want Billie Body dead.
In the final performance, the eighth grade will perform “After Hours” by Kevin Stone. All is quiet on the storefront as the owner of a small clothes shop locks up for the night. Little does she know that when the lights go out, activity in her store really picks up. Two lively mannequins, LuAnn and Patty, have been waiting all day for a chance to loosen up. When they discover fellow mannequin Danny in a mistakenly delivered crate, the night really gets interesting! He not only gets out of his box, he thinks outside the box when a pair of bungling burglars breaks in.
The show starts at 6 p.m. at the Kilauea Military Camp theater. Admission is free; donations will be accepted.
