The New England Youth Theater, in collaboration with Westminster's Compass
School, presents:
Compass School Ten Minute Play Festival
A selection of short plays written by ninth and tenth grade Humanities
students at Compass School as a class assignment will soon be coming to
life on the NEYT stage. The plays were written as part of a trimester
focused on creative expression in which each student was challenged to
create interesting characters and believable dialogue--all within ten
pages.
A dozen of the plays written in the class were submitted to a committee of
actors and directors at NEYT, who then chose their six favorites. The
plays, which run the gamut from the farcical to the hauntingly sad, will
be directed and performed by New England Youth Theater faculty and
students.
Compass School's curriculum is built around public exhibition of student
work and these students were uniquely motivated by a desire to see their
plays performed. In addition to the NEYT show, the entire Compass
Humanities class will display their artwork and perform their poems and
plays on May 1st at the Latchis 4 Gallery in Brattleboro for Gallery Walk.
The single performance of the Compass Play Festival is presented on
Thursday, April 16 at 7:00pm.