Unbeknownst to most, the story of The Little Mermaid predates the 1989 animated classic by more than 150 years. The real story is a bit more complex and a great deal darker than the Disneyfied version we all know and love, and this weekend students at the West Tisbury school will offer their own interpretation.
Once on This Island Jr., is an adaptation of a Broadway musical based on the novel My Love, My Love, by Rosa Guy, which is in turn an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, first published in 1837.
IMP, the Island’s youth improv troupe, has been selected to perform at the 2010 Teen Chicago Improv Festival, and will be in the spotlight for two nights in a row this weekend in an effort to raise funds for the trip to the Windy City.
Nightmares and Dreams: Immigrant Voices is a short play written and performed by a group of Vineyard women, ranging in age from 15 to 50, from Latin American countries about their experience immigrating to America in general and Martha’s Vineyard in particular. This original work will be performed free for the public in the regional high school library next Friday, April 9, at 6:30 p.m., as the closing program of the spring session of Adult and Community Education of Martha’s Vineyard.
At this year’s Massachusetts High School Drama Guild Festival the students in Kate Murray’s Theatre II class presented a new work, the brainchild of a creative collaboration between teacher and students. And this weekend, they are bringing it home, with several productions for the Vineyard audiences slated at the high school’s performing arts center.
Closets Opening Soon
BravEncore, a nonprofit organization that supports Island high school performing arts, presents Closets, an original play written by Kate Murray and her Theatre 2 class, on Friday, March 26 at 7 p.m. at the high school performing arts center. The play was recently performed at the Massachusetts High School Drama Guild competition.
Admission is free, but donations are welcome; all proceeds benefit the BravEncore troupe trip to perform at the 2010 Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Calling kids aged 8 to 18 who can sing and/or act: it’s audition time for the Imp production of Bittersweet, a musical that includes many singing some non-singing roles. Bittersweet is written by Ross Mihalko and Donna Swift, with lyrics by Ross Mihalko and music by Brian Weiland — the creators of Bears Beware, Goldilocks Is in Your Town; Waking Beauty; Bluebeard; and The Tall Tale Trilogy.