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2017-2018 Theatre Productions Announced
From Director of Theatre Arts Jason Peck:
The 2017-2018 St. Luke’s theatrical season was just announced. Once again, we’ll present eight shows during the year: three Middle School, three Upper School and two Advanced Acting class productions.
The Middle School will kick it off with Life in the Middle—a musical about Middle School life based on interviews with Middle School students. The Upper School’s fall production will give our actors a chance to hone their comedic chops by tackling the very funny, very physical farce Boeing-Boeing. The St. Luke's Theatre Company—comprised of the Advanced Acting class students—is performing Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves about a high school girl's soccer team (2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama).
The Middle School winter musical will have our students journeying "over the rainbow" in the classic The Wizard of Oz. The Upper School students will present the award-winning musical Urinetown with its satirical-take on a town riddled bureaucratic mismanagement and corporate greed.
The St. Luke's Theatre Company’s spring production will be Brynne Frauenhoffer’s brand new play Synchronicity. This play delves into the story of a car accident and how two high school students handle the tragedy. Our Middle School students will get a chance to explore and experiment with heightened language in an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. The 2017-2018 season will close with the Upper School spring play of a collection of material from contemporary female playwrights which we are calling Women’s Voices.
We are looking forward to this exciting and ambitious season of theatre on the Hilltop next year.
St. Luke’s School is a secular (non-religious), private school in New Canaan, CT for grades 5 through 12 serving over 40 towns in Connecticut and New York. Our exceptional academics and diverse co-educational community foster students’ intellectual and ethical development and prepare them for top colleges. St. Luke’s Leading with Humanity curriculum builds the commitment to serve and the confidence to lead.
