Performing Arts Section :: Page 32

• YSHS ‘Midsummer’ mischief, mayhem with a ’50s flare

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 13, 2008

  

  If Shakespeare had lived in the 1950s, how he would have dressed, where he would have lived and the way he would have set his stage is surely just what the Yellow Springs High School thespians have dreamed up for the fall production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

• Grown up kids give back at YSKP

  By Susan GartnerJuly 17, 2008

  

  The room is filled with shouts and “ooofs!” and the sound of punches making contact. One young girl tries to strangle a boy twice her size while a boy who has just been kicked in the stomach, groans and rolls over onto his side. A girl two feet away aims a powerful punch at another boy’s jaw.

• YSKP to bring life to ‘Frankenstein’

  By Susan GartnerJune 19, 2008

  

  Fans of Mary Shelley’s original work, Frankenstein, written in 1818, must have been horrified to watch Hollywood hook its profit-seeking electrodes up to her carefully constructed philosophical essay, then zap 42 celluloid creations into life.