High School Drama Festival Play: Polish Joke
"Polish Joke" at the semi finals in Fall River, MA |
Congratulations go to the Wellesley High School
Drama Society - their production of "Polish Joke" was chosen on
Saturday, February 28th, to be one of the three plays to move on to
the semifinal round of the
Massachusetts High School Drama Festival to be held on Saturday,
March 14th at B. M. C. Durfee High School in Fall River. Wellesley
will be the first to perform that day at 9:30 AM. The awards given
to WHS students at the preliminary round at WHS were:
Ensemble Award
for the Polka Dancers: Madeleine Beimford, Nate Cheek, Anne Curley,
Nicole Dubois, Mac Leslie, Ellie Mears, Julia Rufo, Sara Ryder '09,
Amelia Scarlett '09, Mike Singleton, Julianna Tusler '09, and Jackie
Zhou.
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Individual Acting
Awards to:
- Michael Galligan in the role of Roman Sadlowski
- Holly Kapinos in the double roles of Magda
and Olga Welma Wanda Josefina Wilkormirska
- Sam Metzger in the role of Jasiu Sadlowski
Many thanks to Anne Donovan, Martha Weston, and
Nancy Galligan for organizing the Festival and to the many other POPS
parents who helped make everything run smoothly! |
Stephen Wrobleski's web page
Read about the
"Polish Joke" and the Mass Drama Guild coming to WHS
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Performances: |
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| Wednesday, February 25 |
4:30
pm |
| Thursday, February 26 |
7:30
pm |
| Saturday, February 28 |
approx
5:30 pm |
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WHS Auditorium |
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WHS is performing the play "Polish Joke" written by David Ives for
the MHSDG festival. Wellesley will
be hosting the preliminary competition which will bring seven schools to
WHS on February 28th where they will compete for a place in the
semi-final round to be held on March 14th. Admission to the day of short
plays on 2/28 is $10, and performances run from 9:00 am to approximately
6:15 pm. Wellesley is the last school to perform (at approximately
5:30). Each play runs for no more than 40 minutes.
THE STORY: A comedy about ethnic identity and the eternal
American search for "roots." Jasiu (thirtyish) is a Polish-American who
has been taught not to value his own roots, so he decides to make his
own roots, reinventing himself first as a sort of non-ethnic everyman,
then as an "Irishman." Jasiu's adventures—alternately zany and
heartbreaking—take him through a job interview with an Ur-Wasp; to an
attempt to become a Catholic priest; to a flower shop where he can't get
service because he is weirdly invisible; to a doomed love affair with a
Jewish woman; to a wacky Irish travel agency where he has to prove that
he is Irish before he can buy a ticket; and to a doctor more interested
in ethnic pain than in healing. Jasiu is also bedeviled by a reappearing
Polish relative and has to face off with the ghost of a dead Polish
patriot. In the end, by trying to get away from his ethnic background,
Jasiu finds out who he is and what it means to be "a Pole." (From
Dramatists.com)
Last modified
3/15/09
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