Use this link to check for upcoming shows occurring at all Virginia Beach schools - you can use these for your quarterly showviewings!
|
|
Use this schedule to see when the other schools in the area are performing. If you're trying to figure out which high school to attend, this is a great resource!
|
2016-2017 Season Performances
Spring Theatre I Plays
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - Black Box Theater, Old Donation School (4633 Honeygrove Road)
The Distracted Scholar's Guide to Literature and Drama by Peter Bloedel
Bell 2 Class (contains 8th graders from both teams)
Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at 6:00pm
Short attention span? This play offers to teach the audience everything they'd ever need to know about the major movements and works in Western literature and drama. Well...kind of. The audience is given a comic "fast-forward" tour of authors, playwrights, and poets including the likes of Sophocles, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen. Major movements in literary and dramatic history, like the Enlightenment and Romanticism, are taught as the actors portray a hilarious "mash-up" between Frankenstein and Pride and Prejudice, as well as other unlikely pairings and synopses. The play is replete with ghosts, villains, and common plot devices, and burns through the other major periods in literary history culminating in a fast-paced handling of movies and "The Great Summer Blockbuster!" A lesson in literature and drama was never so fun!
The Perils of Modern Education by Matthew Webster
Bell 6 Class (contains 6th grade Marlins and Rays)
Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at 7:00pm
The Perils of Modern Education are many! From standardized theatre tests that call for an exact number of steps in a scene, to trying to eat green in the cafeteria, to dealing with caffeine withdrawal, to giving Shakespeare advice on his college application essay. That’s right. Shakespeare. Spoiler alert, Willy is not college material.
Teenage Nightmare by Laura Toffenetti
Bell 3 Class (contains 7th grade Foxes and Bears)
Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at 8:00pm
Touching on the trials and tribulations of being a teen, this one-act satire brings teen life center stage in the form of a live news magazine. Loaded with teen-friendly sketches such as “Shopping With Mom,” “Babysitting a Child Named Moose,” and “Trying to Ask a Girl on a Date,” it also includes a flashy street interview titled, “Dumb Things Parents, Teachers, and Kids Say” in addition to four short scenes between parents and teens on “What Happened in School Today.” Find the latest in teen fashion, poetry, and of course, advice columns on makeup and shaving from Babs and Philipe, your favorite editors. Besides the babysitting horror stories and red-hot dating files, the play includes two commercials: “Zitaway: A Unique Blend of Vitamins B1-27” and “Parents in a Box: All of the Comforts of Home.” A quick reality check and it continues with “Chores That Bore,” a comical stand-off between parents and teens on cleaning their rooms and taking out the trash.
Bell 2 Class (contains 8th graders from both teams)
Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at 6:00pm
Short attention span? This play offers to teach the audience everything they'd ever need to know about the major movements and works in Western literature and drama. Well...kind of. The audience is given a comic "fast-forward" tour of authors, playwrights, and poets including the likes of Sophocles, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen. Major movements in literary and dramatic history, like the Enlightenment and Romanticism, are taught as the actors portray a hilarious "mash-up" between Frankenstein and Pride and Prejudice, as well as other unlikely pairings and synopses. The play is replete with ghosts, villains, and common plot devices, and burns through the other major periods in literary history culminating in a fast-paced handling of movies and "The Great Summer Blockbuster!" A lesson in literature and drama was never so fun!
The Perils of Modern Education by Matthew Webster
Bell 6 Class (contains 6th grade Marlins and Rays)
Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at 7:00pm
The Perils of Modern Education are many! From standardized theatre tests that call for an exact number of steps in a scene, to trying to eat green in the cafeteria, to dealing with caffeine withdrawal, to giving Shakespeare advice on his college application essay. That’s right. Shakespeare. Spoiler alert, Willy is not college material.
Teenage Nightmare by Laura Toffenetti
Bell 3 Class (contains 7th grade Foxes and Bears)
Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at 8:00pm
Touching on the trials and tribulations of being a teen, this one-act satire brings teen life center stage in the form of a live news magazine. Loaded with teen-friendly sketches such as “Shopping With Mom,” “Babysitting a Child Named Moose,” and “Trying to Ask a Girl on a Date,” it also includes a flashy street interview titled, “Dumb Things Parents, Teachers, and Kids Say” in addition to four short scenes between parents and teens on “What Happened in School Today.” Find the latest in teen fashion, poetry, and of course, advice columns on makeup and shaving from Babs and Philipe, your favorite editors. Besides the babysitting horror stories and red-hot dating files, the play includes two commercials: “Zitaway: A Unique Blend of Vitamins B1-27” and “Parents in a Box: All of the Comforts of Home.” A quick reality check and it continues with “Chores That Bore,” a comical stand-off between parents and teens on cleaning their rooms and taking out the trash.
Theatre II Play
Wednesday, January 25, 2017, at 7:00pm
All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play by Werner Trieschmann
Bell 2 Class (contains 8th graders from both teams)
Based on several disastrous theatrical experiences, "Bad Play" peels back a tattered curtain to examine the process of putting on a show that is less than good. A stuffy narrator (what bad play is complete without a stuffy narrator?) guides the audience through the whole sorry process. We go from the audition—where the director is more worried about roast beef than paying attention to the warm-up exercise, and the neurotic cast pretends to be bacon—to rehearsals—where a passive-aggressive stage manager gives everyone grief. There's also a special meeting of the Small Part Support Group and a production of Romeo and Juliet set in a Starbucks with costumes of potato sacks and bowler hats. This bad play within a play won't win any awards, but "All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play" will keep audiences in stitches.
Bell 2 Class (contains 8th graders from both teams)
Based on several disastrous theatrical experiences, "Bad Play" peels back a tattered curtain to examine the process of putting on a show that is less than good. A stuffy narrator (what bad play is complete without a stuffy narrator?) guides the audience through the whole sorry process. We go from the audition—where the director is more worried about roast beef than paying attention to the warm-up exercise, and the neurotic cast pretends to be bacon—to rehearsals—where a passive-aggressive stage manager gives everyone grief. There's also a special meeting of the Small Part Support Group and a production of Romeo and Juliet set in a Starbucks with costumes of potato sacks and bowler hats. This bad play within a play won't win any awards, but "All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play" will keep audiences in stitches.
Fall Theatre I Plays
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
The Women of Troy by Euripides, adapted by David Grote
Bell 5 Class (contains 8th graders from both teams and four 7th grade Bay Lynxes)
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, at 6:00pm
The powerless but still defiant women of the defeated city of Troy—now the spoils of war—wait for the Greeks to decide their fate. Originally written by Euripides as a blazing protest against the way Athens treated the rights of women in such circumstances, this play, despite its ancient origins, concerns human dignity. The play, completely in prose, is poetic but the language is direct and simple.
The Audition by Don Zolidis
Bell 1 Class (contains 8th graders from both teams and 7th grade Bay Lynxes)
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, at 7:00pm
A new theater teacher is bringing a production of A Chorus Line to the high school. Though the hopefuls range from shy to outrageous, and from diva-like to determined, everyone has a chance to step into the spotlight. A hilarious and heartbreaking look at the madness of auditioning and the actors who brave the process for that perfect part.
Darcy’s Cinematic Life by Christa Crewdson
One-Act Play Competition Piece (contains students from all grade levels and teams)
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, at 8:00pm
AND Saturday, November 5, 2016, at 3:05pm at Princess Anne MS (arrive by 2:45 to avoid being locked out)
Darcy struggles with issues that most teenagers deal with on a day-to-day basis. What makes her unique, however, is that she experiences the events in her life as short movies—or "daydreams," as her teacher calls them. Often these movies grow out of her desire to fit in and be accepted. But during a class trip to a museum—complete with a romance, an evil nemesis, and a nerd fashion show—Darcy is able to find her way with the help of both her intelligence and her unwillingness to change who she is just to fit in.
(Promotional artwork by Ethan Foley.)
Bell 5 Class (contains 8th graders from both teams and four 7th grade Bay Lynxes)
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, at 6:00pm
The powerless but still defiant women of the defeated city of Troy—now the spoils of war—wait for the Greeks to decide their fate. Originally written by Euripides as a blazing protest against the way Athens treated the rights of women in such circumstances, this play, despite its ancient origins, concerns human dignity. The play, completely in prose, is poetic but the language is direct and simple.
The Audition by Don Zolidis
Bell 1 Class (contains 8th graders from both teams and 7th grade Bay Lynxes)
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, at 7:00pm
A new theater teacher is bringing a production of A Chorus Line to the high school. Though the hopefuls range from shy to outrageous, and from diva-like to determined, everyone has a chance to step into the spotlight. A hilarious and heartbreaking look at the madness of auditioning and the actors who brave the process for that perfect part.
Darcy’s Cinematic Life by Christa Crewdson
One-Act Play Competition Piece (contains students from all grade levels and teams)
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, at 8:00pm
AND Saturday, November 5, 2016, at 3:05pm at Princess Anne MS (arrive by 2:45 to avoid being locked out)
Darcy struggles with issues that most teenagers deal with on a day-to-day basis. What makes her unique, however, is that she experiences the events in her life as short movies—or "daydreams," as her teacher calls them. Often these movies grow out of her desire to fit in and be accepted. But during a class trip to a museum—complete with a romance, an evil nemesis, and a nerd fashion show—Darcy is able to find her way with the help of both her intelligence and her unwillingness to change who she is just to fit in.
(Promotional artwork by Ethan Foley.)
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
101 Breakups by Jason Pizzarello
Bell 3 Class (contains 7th grade Foxes and Bears)
Wednesday, November 2, 2016, at 6:00pm
The one where you'll feel all the feelings, but most especially, you'll feel hilariously moved in this dram-com that's bound to break your heart. 101 times.
The Revenge of the Snerd by James DeLong
Bell 8 Class (contains 6th grade Dolphins, one 7th grade Fox, and one 7th grade Bear)
Wednesday, November 2, 2016, at 7:00pm
Smedley S. Snerd, a typical nerd hero, is the star student of Miss Fossil's geology class. He's got a big crush on Marybelle Moosenheimer, the heroine, star cheerleader, and member of the Locks, a group which values their beautiful hair. Other peer groups include the Rocks, who are into "heavy metal"; the Jocks, who are athletically inclined; and the Rolls, a gang of hoodlums led by the infamous macho villain, Mr. G. But brain outwits brawn as Smedley uses his marbles to trip up Mr. G and his gang, win Marybelle's hand, and explain to Miss Fossil the real origins of rock and roll.
Bell 3 Class (contains 7th grade Foxes and Bears)
Wednesday, November 2, 2016, at 6:00pm
The one where you'll feel all the feelings, but most especially, you'll feel hilariously moved in this dram-com that's bound to break your heart. 101 times.
The Revenge of the Snerd by James DeLong
Bell 8 Class (contains 6th grade Dolphins, one 7th grade Fox, and one 7th grade Bear)
Wednesday, November 2, 2016, at 7:00pm
Smedley S. Snerd, a typical nerd hero, is the star student of Miss Fossil's geology class. He's got a big crush on Marybelle Moosenheimer, the heroine, star cheerleader, and member of the Locks, a group which values their beautiful hair. Other peer groups include the Rocks, who are into "heavy metal"; the Jocks, who are athletically inclined; and the Rolls, a gang of hoodlums led by the infamous macho villain, Mr. G. But brain outwits brawn as Smedley uses his marbles to trip up Mr. G and his gang, win Marybelle's hand, and explain to Miss Fossil the real origins of rock and roll.