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High school theater stays active during pandemic
JUSTIN FAULCONER, News & Advance
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AMHERST, Va. (AP) An out-of-this-world experience has come to Amherst County High School’s drama program for a spring production of “The Aliens Have Stolen Our Wives,” an original play written by ACHS instructor Patricia Emmert and her husband.
The challenges of COVID-19 have led Emmert and the drama students to put on their competition play in a pre-recorded performance sent to the Virginia High School League. The school’s theater program participants normally travel in the fall to perform for the VHSL competition and observe other schools’ productions, but this year Emmert and crew had to improvise by recording the performance in an empty auditorium at the high school.