Show Thespian Production at High Nigh School Truly Enjoyable Experience By Maxine Newell We spent two hours In ki a nuthouse nut tout house last lost Thursday evening and end enjoyed every minute of It St The place was Cloisters Cloisters an MI asylum about whose Inmates The Curious Savage was writ writ- ten tea Presented f by the Th Thespians Club Cub the three three act play pIny by John Patrick was VM filled with laugh laugh- loaded dialogue topped with afew a afew few tew members in the cast cut who are capable of drawing laughter from an audience with facial expressions and pantomime Star of or the play was Mrs Sav Say age a 1 wealthy thy widow made sedately funny by Gay Shafer who played the part beautifully The rho gist of ot the play was her Internment In the asylum by her money mad children who thought she ahe had bad been beat squander Ing Jag the family inheritance Later they discovered the she had quietly sold an all J the to stock k In the Savage family businesses s and converted the money Into irreplaceable bonds The remainder of ot the play revolved around a mint hunt for tor the missing bonds bends which eventually she ahe e pulled from a red nd teddy bear she ahe always carried with her JJ Before Be Before fore Ju her r greedy children could coul escape with the bonds however they disappeared hi Itt the asylum Mylum and were cleverly proven to have been burned In n a bathtub byone by byone one me of the Inmates The greedy children left deflated the burnIng burnIng burn burn- Ing ng of the bonds then was proven to have been ft R hoax and the they were restored to Mrs Savage who by this time had to be coaxed to leave her friends Inthe Inthe In Inthe the asylum It was WIlS n a trite plot but tho the clever punch lines JInes In the play and the comedians In the tho cas cast cant disguised the fact Mrs Airs Paddy one of ot the sIckest of the Inmates was played bj by Judy Wearing a n drab Ill fitting dress hair and no make up she sho looked like 0 a typical Impression of a menta mental mental men men- ta tal patient She didn't speak n a fluent sentence until the end o othe of the play yet managed to steal scene after scene with facial facia pantomime An expert job of up Up- staging Linda Stocks stole the show In her role as Fairy ratty May another inmate This limber Umber stage tage extra extrovert rovert ro- ro vert is a howl Her Iter lines were t the funniest runnIest in the he show how but bu almost unnecessary for tor time after time she drew so much laughter from the audience with her comical antics they Ibey didn't even hear the lines She SM is a natural comedian and we predict pre pro diet dict a professional care career r forthe for rOt forthe the young thespIan is hers for forthe forthe forthe the pursuing Cheryl Chel Holyoak Holy oak made mad the very most t out of a good supporting role rote Those who have havn ha den cn her expert performance In past PMt productions productions pro pro- were probably a bl bIt disappointed that she was controlled controlled con cat trolled by her p part tt Its It's a rare thing when there are more excellent excellent ex ex- performers than parts in Jn ina ina a n high school production The remainder of the cast provided provided provided pro pro- vided excellent support in their roles TOles Paul Johnson and John Cook Were good as fellow Inmates Jn In- In- In InI I I mates males Larry Smith made a dashing young doctor Nancy Fine Margret Bolden Bob Bol Leona Thill Carolyn and Mary Ann Graham all an made the most of or the few lew scenes written In the play to show off art their ability The play was WIlS chuck full fun o of philosophical comedy such as nothing makes the truth seem so shabby as a magnificent lie He there are a million things a aman aman man wont won't do for tor 5 5 but no not five he wont won't do for tr a million dollars and freedom is the right to make the wrong As amusing and end well welt cast Il as The Curious Savage was there is little doubt it could have been much less Jess without the able directing of Wendell Bow Dow thorp who never seems to produce produce pro pro- duce a sick play |