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Show Play Delights Big Crowd at Escalante ESCALANTE Kittens, cops and conscience came to the Escalante Elementary School stage Wed nesday night, April 13. Under the supervision of Hal Shurtz, principal, the fifth and sixth grade classes presented three one-act plays. Student directors were Natalie Coombs, Becky Mitchell and David '.' Dutton. Dennis Petty was the stage and curtain mangaer. In "Shades of Ransom", the Gas Chicken Gang (Martell Simons, . Raymond Gardner, and Ima Poteet) make, the mistake of taking their young kidnap victim to a haunted . house inhabited by the real ghost Hamlet sisters (Stacy Davis and Trudy Gracie) and an unseen green - water pixie who lives under the kitchen sink. Because of his youthful innocense, only the kidnapped child (Ammon Carter) can see and converse with ? the ghost sisters, but the Chicken Gang is unnerved by mysterious happenings and voluntarily call the police (Keith LeFevre and Brian Roundy) to And refuge in Jail. In the happy ending, the child is reunited with his mother (Jessica Weed) and the ghosts regain possession of their house, vowing that "as good ghosts, we never did believe in people" "Too Many Kittens", the second of the one-act plays, revolves around three children (Candace Haws, Troy Hawks and Crissy Gledhill) who are faced with the dilemma of finding homes for their four kittens who have already ripped the couch, destroyed Mother's ( Rhonda Griffin) Fern and broken Dad's (Allen Overall) golf trophy. All their.friends (Bonnie Coleman and Kimberly Woolsey) have excuses for not taking the kittens, but their teacher Miss Anderson (Laura Davis) saves the day by agreeing to take two for herself and take the remaining kittens to her father's farm. In "A Matter of Conscience" George (Larry Sidwell) decides he wants to be rid of his conscience (Forest Christian) who "has a habit of speaking out." Without his inner self to distinguish right from wrong, George uses his new freedom to ; cause trouble ("I wonder how long - the evil has to practice?") First he harasses his sister (Helan Spencer) and her friend (Deanne Coleman). Then he puts salt and 4, soap powder in his mother's cake j mix and orders two quarts of cottage ' cheese instead of the ice cream his 1 mother (Kimberly Woolsey) requested. Too late, George finds out that the cake and ice cream were intended for his surprise birthday party. Hastily he takes his savings to buy a bakery cake and ice cream and decides that conscience isn't so bad after all. The students were responsible for memorizing their lines, costuming, stage settings and drops. Judging from the audience response, the casts did a commendable job. Hamlet ghost sisters played by Stacy Davis left, and Trudy Gracie in "Shades or Ransom" talk to kid napped child played by Ammon Carter. Plays were well attended. |