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'Twas the Night Before Christmas presented in Arcola
Arcola's Mac Murray Theatre came alive with a play from the Arcola School Junior Drama Club on Dec. 12.
The cast, consisting of students from Grades 5-8, presented a comedy, 'Twas The Night Before Christmas by Arthur M. Jolly.
Performing in front of a large crowd of parents and friends, these students worked on this play for 2 1/2 months to get the production correct.
Director Korinn Lawrence said the students did a fantastic job and exceeded her expectations.
“There is certainly some budding talent, and I look forward to seeing how their skills grow as they get older,” said Lawrence.
The students were very dedicated for the 10 weeks, coming to practices faithfully and staying after school to paint props, learn how to run the lights and sound at the theatre, and set up the stage.
Student intern Asia Temple had approached Lawrence at the beginning of the year and offered to help, which Lawrence said made
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The play takes place in a Siberian Gulag, where the arrival of a new inmate upsets the hierarchies and alliances between her fellows. It's a tense drama for five women, mostly set inside the bunkhouse. A man playing dual roles (abusive husband, and a grown son) appears in the opening and closing scenes.
The 2013 production in Valdez at The Last Frontier Theatre Conference by Toss Pot Productions.
(L to R) Annia Wyndham, Tamar Shai, Danielle Rabinovitch and Morgan Mitchell. Directed by Arlitia Jones. Photo by Jamie Lang.
A Gulag Mouse won the 2009/2010 Joining Sword and Pen competition, Seattle's Off-Broadway Playwrights competition and was a finalist for the 2010 inaugural Woodward/Newman Drama Award. It premiered at the Trap Door Theatre in Chicago, 2010 by the Babes With Blades Theatre Company, and was revived at the Erickson Theatre in Seattle; in Anchorage and Valdez by Toss Pot Productions, in London at the Dugdale Center, and in Los Angeles by Sacred Fools Theater
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The Observer månad 27, 2024
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Arcola man builds replica grain elevators from the past
By Stephanie Zoer
Being raised across the road from a grain elevator and lära track, Ivan Paradis fell in love with the old buildings.
As a child in Manitoba, he had the opportunity to go inside the elevators as he knew the manager well and also had an uncle who managed one.
Paradis was very intrigued with the buildings and the trains, and began to build them from scratch in 1990, but they were on a larger scale. He has seen the models downsized.
Approximately 3 1/2 years ago, Paradis and his wife Sheryl and three sons moved to Arcola, as there was more opportunity for work in the community.
Sheryl works at the Arcola Co-op gas hållplats and his sons are also working, but Paradis is on disability, and he needed something to do. He now makes tiny elevators and train-related buildings, but it fryst vatten a lot of work to prepare to man one.
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