Grade 9 Students Earn Silver Medal with Original Drama
On April 28, Grade 9 students in Shore's Advanced Theater Arts course earned a silver medal in the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild's Middle School Festival with their original drama, "A Dream Betrayed."
Competing at Lynnfield Middle School with six other middle school drama groups, students won praise from judges for their play and performances: "This is a play with themes and topics that will stick in my head for a long time," one judge said. "Thanks for bringing this work to the stage!" According to another festival judge, "Shore students were committed to showing us what happens when greed and ambition overtake humanity and goodness."
The play was written by Sarah Carlin and her students in the year-long Advanced Theater Arts course; it was directed by Carlin. Three of the ninth graders won individual all-star awards for their acting portrayals.
"A Dream Betrayed" is a taut, contemporary examination of the ways young people's relationships can be strained by school pressures, family expectations, societal tensions, and jealousy. Luke and Carlos are close high school friends competing for the same academic scholarship. Both are under pressure to win: Luke due to his father's high expectations, and Carlos given it's the only way his immigrant family would be able to send him to college. Over the course of a few days, the friends become bitter enemies, a girlfriend is betrayed, a parent is turned in to the authorities, and the winner realizes too late that no scholarship is worth the damage he's done to the people around him.
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Competing at Lynnfield Middle School with six other middle school drama groups, students won praise from judges for their play and performances: "This is a play with themes and topics that will stick in my head for a long time," one judge said. "Thanks for bringing this work to the stage!" According to another festival judge, "Shore students were committed to showing us what happens when greed and ambition overtake humanity and goodness."
The play was written by Sarah Carlin and her students in the year-long Advanced Theater Arts course; it was directed by Carlin. Three of the ninth graders won individual all-star awards for their acting portrayals.
"A Dream Betrayed" is a taut, contemporary examination of the ways young people's relationships can be strained by school pressures, family expectations, societal tensions, and jealousy. Luke and Carlos are close high school friends competing for the same academic scholarship. Both are under pressure to win: Luke due to his father's high expectations, and Carlos given it's the only way his immigrant family would be able to send him to college. Over the course of a few days, the friends become bitter enemies, a girlfriend is betrayed, a parent is turned in to the authorities, and the winner realizes too late that no scholarship is worth the damage he's done to the people around him.
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Ava D'Ambrosio as Alyssa
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Kealan Biebesheimer as Principal Murphy
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