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Show A-10 The Park Record Saturday, January 4, 1997 PCHS drama department: lots of new stars by Madison Furrh OF THE RECORD STAFF The Park City High School Drama department will perform "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams, Jan. 8-11. Unlike most high school drama departments Michael Alvarez, the drama teacher at Park City High School, likes to do several plays a year. He said, "This is our third production of the year. My theory is that I want to give the maximum number of students stu-dents the chance to perform. We do a play every four weeks." Doing four shows poses some challenges but Alvarez seems undaunted. He said, "The thing that I'm doing that's interesting is rather than do a show for two nights. I've double-cast all the roles so there will be more opportunities for all the kids. It's kind of a logistical nightmare t . ' tl Mi m i.M 3 i m LISA ANTONUCCIPARK RECORD Kerry and Katie O'Conor, aged four and five of the Soaring Wings Montessori School, celebrate Saint Lucia Day. According to Norwegian and Swedish folklore Lucia or Lucy is the queen of light. Girls and boys at the school dressed up in white and sang songs. Lucia wore a crown of candles on her head. The others had candles in their hands. but it actually worked out rather well. It will be interesting to see how they take to it." He added, "It's been really valuable for them, too because they can learn from watching another student play the role. The leads have done really great." Alvarez chose this particular play for a number of reasons. He said. "I wanted to stretch the talents tal-ents of my students and I think Tennessee Williams creates a rare opportunity for females in that they can play a really big lead. He's known for writing writ-ing really meaty female roles. I wanted to give them an opportunity to do that." Another reason that Alvarez selected this play is because it provides a rich backdrop to challenge students. He said, "It's a different era for the kids to relate to. It's set in 1916 and it's been great for them to get into a different time period. I think kids like to do challenging plays." He added, "I consider this play to be the advent of magical realism. real-ism. It is my favorite style. Tennessee Williams is pretty much the start of that. It is realism rendered magical through the art of poetic language. lan-guage. It is firmly based in reality but the language elevates ele-vates it to a magical realm." Alvarez, who graduated from the University of Utah in Dance and Drama and has acted in both New York and Los Angeles, is ecstatic about the work his students have been doing. He said, "The female lead, Courtney Mastain, has been just phenomenal. She came out of nowhere. She's been the surprise of the cast. Bennett Cousins has been doing great, too." The play, which will be performed per-formed in its entirety, provides the students with some challenging challeng-ing material. He said, "I don't cut anything from the script. There's no profanity but it does concern an adult relationship." Speaking about the typical Williams play Alvarez added, "There's the great Promethean male figure who finds spiritual rebirth and the woman is always somehow fallen. Some really interesting art emerges when there's that kind of conflict going on. Tennessee Williams wasn't allowed to be himself by society soci-ety and that really spurred his creativity." Because the new Performing Arts Center is still under construction con-struction the play will be performed per-formed at the Egyptian Theater. Alvarez said, "We're sort of the theater company without a home. We'd have to do it in the lunch room or something. It's great to get that community support. sup-port. Students will perform Jan. 8-11. 8-11. Each nights' performance will begin at 7 p.m. and the price of admission will be $5 for adults. fit? w U ! ; - f ! K : 3 1 : , -'?..; PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHAEL ALVAREZ Matt Grant and Courtney Mastain will play the leads in the Park City High School's production of Tennessee Williams' "Summer and Smoke." Ogden alternative high school expands OGDEN, Utah (AP) Ogden and Weber school districts plan an evaluation of the Washington High alternative program. The study is intended to find out what works and to determine whether some of the pupils could be kept in regular schools with special help. The Ogden district created Washington Alternative High School in 1980. In 1987, the Weber district joined the Ogden district at Washington. Washington has the reputation of being a rough school. "We do have kids who violate the safe school policy," Principal Kim Dohrer said. "We do have gang kids here who violated the safe schools policy or who have been arrested. We do have special education edu-cation students here." But students find out quickly they can't mess around at Washington High and stay in school, she said. "We had three fights last year. There are very few kids we remove because of safe schools violations." Each week the school gets 20 to 30 new students. The first step is to test them in math and reading. Washington High is the only high school in Weber County that operates oper-ates on competency-based learning program. The students must demonstrate mastery of math and reading through the ninth-grade level to graduate. Gone are subjects such as history, histo-ry, science and social studies.Students may receive up to four credits for working outside the school. "I think we'll always have a PR problem with that," Ms. ! Dohrer said. "But we need to let people know that we're the only high school which requires students stu-dents graduate with a ninth-grade reading level." 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