One Act PlayDescription:One-Act Play is a performance of a 35 minute straight play (no music). Students act in, along with create scenery and costumes, in a show that then travels to various invitational play festivals with other high schools. It also competes in the MSHSL One Act Play competitions. At the subsection and section performances the best shows are selected to move on to the next round of competition. Subsections are held in late Jan/ early Feb. At all levels students have the opportunity to be critiqued from judges to improve their performance.
Advisor/Coach Contact Information: Stacy Mittag. To contact Stacy, click here.
Registration Information: Performers are selected through auditions in Acting II. Technicians can sign up in early December.
Schedules: After school rehearsals occur from the end of January through the end of competition in February.
Photos: Coming soon!
History:
St. Croix Prep’s entry into last year’s Minnesota
State High School League One-Act Contest was “The Insanity of Mary
Girard” by Lanie Roberts.
The play is based on the true story of one of the richest and most powerful men in the 18th
century America and his much younger wife. “The Insanity of Mary
Girard” provides a chilling glimpse into a time when husbands held
absolute control and power over their wives, an abusive medieval system
of treating the mentally ill, and a time where wealth and power could
be abused in terrifying and almost unimaginable ways.
This innovative and highly dramatic portrayal of
a perfectly sane woman cast into a mental institution for the rest of
her life will leave the audience speechless and spellbound as they
descend with Mary into the nightmarish world of insanity. |
