Every year, excitement in the theatre classes swell with news of field trips. This semester, Advanced Theatre, Competitive Theatre and Stagecraft, saw The Miracle Worker by William Gibson, at the Coterie Theatre on October 6.
Before the show, students were allowed to go into McDonalds to buy food and drinks.
The Miracle Worker is a dramatic play about the story of Helen Keller. The play included Helen’s family and how she overcame her disabilities with the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan. The audience experienced a very intense and emotional show, many students in the audience left in tears.
Theatre teacher, Don Johnson, gave some insight on the show.
“The cool thing about it is they have worked it so the hearing and vision impaired can come and understand what’s going on. They have shadow acting above and behind the action and for the hearing impaired they narrated the actions of the characters,” Johnson said.
Not only did theatre classes get to see an amazing show, but after the day students got to shop around and eat lunch for an hour at Crown Center.
Senior Shelby Werner is always excited about theatre class field trips.
“I love them, they’re a great experience. Especially if you want to pursue theatre, you get to see professional productions,” Werner said. “My sophomore year at LHS, we saw The Foreigner at the KC Rep. Now we are doing The Foreigner as our comedic play.”
Werner and junior Cameron Prater will never forget their favorite field trips.
“My previous favorite field trip was ‘Hair Retrospection.” Werner said. “We went and saw that at the KC Rep and it wasn’t the actual musical Hair it was more of an explanation of it. It was really funny and awesome and the songs were just fantastic.”
“My previous favorite field trip was The Foreigner,” Prater said. “We went to go see that my freshman year, in the fall and it was the funniest show I’ve ever seen.”
This is the first theatre class field trip for the freshmen, and Weston Brown is happy to experience the fun of the theatre class field trips.
“I love field trips. You have fun, you get food, they always give you food,” Brown said.
The Miracle Worker was a dramatic show, but many students enjoy other kinds of shows.
“I like funny shows that are very showy, with lots of singing and dancing because that’s my personality,” Brown said.
Many students tend to like shows that express their personality.
“I really enjoy comedic plays and musicals,” Werner said. “Dramatic plays lose my attention, but also I’m more of a comedic person myself, so I enjoy comedic stuff more. I love to sing, so I definitely enjoy musicals.”
The upperclassmen recommended shows they would love to see the underclassmen go on. Prater said he would like to see the underclassmen see Anne Frank.
“I really would’ve liked to see our underclassmen go on the Hair Retrospection trip,” Werner said. “I’m really excited for them to go to the Coterie Theater.”