“The Performance Arts Center at Imagine Schools on Broadway was filled with giggles Thursday as elementary students watched a play performed by Bishop Luers High School’s theater production class.
It was the high school students’ third visit to the school. In recent days, they had given a workshop on pantomime and improvisation and a lesson on stage makeup.
The earlier visits were a buildup to ‘The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf,’ a play dealing with whether a wolf was guilty of destroying two homes belonging to three little pigs. As the play proceeded, Imagine students were asked to play the roles of straw and stick houses.
This year, Luers’ theater production class will visit eight elementary schools. Students select, star in and produce the plays. They also draw up lessons plans teachers can use before their visits to familiarize students with the vocabulary and concepts in the plays.
Karlene Krouse, head of Luers’ performing arts department, said some of her students end up wanting to go into education after the experience.
Jalen Boone, a second-grader at Imagine, said he enjoyed the play because it was ‘just like a movie.’
He said he loved when Luers students taught him how to create fake blood, a mustache and a black eye. If he could ask them one more question, he said, it would be how the student playing the wolf managed to have such a realistic tail.”
Article published on April 4, 2011 by the Journal Gazette