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藝文活動 Spirit Week 民歌大賽 幼稚園校慶 兵馬俑學習單 吉祥文物展 回首頁
The Bilingual Department's Drama Class Takes Center Stage
Bilingual Department Ms. Jamie RheinOn March 23, literary greats such as Sophocles, Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams visited
NEHS as the Bilingual Department's Drama elective students took to the stage. Compressing
more than 2000 years of Western drama history into an hour and a half play, the 33 drama
students performed roles that ranged from the Three Witches in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" to
Walter, Travis and RuthYounger, members of an African-American family trying for a better
life in 1950s inner-city Chicago in Lorainne Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun."
Conceived and directed by Bilingual teachers Sarah Meek and Jamie Rhein, "The Western
Drama Retrospective" treated parents, students and faculty to a series of 12 separate scenes
chronologically linked with historical fact. Starting with Antigone by Sophocles from the
Golden Age of Greece and ending with James McLure The Day They Shot John Lennon.
from the early 1980s. The retrospective presented a pattern of narration followed by scenes,
each complete with changing stage settings and backdrops. Not only did the audience
become transported to the living room scenes of Ibsen's , A Doll's House, Moliere's Tartuffe,
and Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest, they also learned about the playwrights'
influences. Like when Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, not only was he portraying the lives
of the Puritans in Massachussetts during the Salem Witch Trials; he was making a commentary
about the McCarthy era trials in 1950s America that were designed to "expose" Communists.
Other plays like, Igmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, and William's Orpheus Descending
examined issues of the meaning of life and relationships while Fools, by Neil Simon was
simple light-hearted fun.
To create such a project, the students, ranging from ninth to twelfth grade, learned lines and
practiced their parts both in and out of class for two months. Many took on the roles of people
older or younger than them and, due to the lack of female parts, many of the girls artfully took
on the roles of men. As well as the students' dedication, the good graces of the Experimental
side of the school led to the play' success. Offices and departments like Student Affairs, art
and the principal's lent furniture and props, while others lent us keys to use the auditorium, as
well as let items such as a couch and wooden stumps share the stage (for what seemed to be
weeks on end).
To all those who helped make the Bilingual Department's "Western Drama Retrospective" a
hit, a heartfelt "Thank-you!"
Artigone A Raisin in the Sun
The Day They Shot John Lennon
Orpheus Descending