Buena Vista High Schoolâs Trident Theatre Company debuted their first musical on the stage of the new flex commons: The mythical, tropical âOnce on this Island,â Friday.Â
âItâs a really interesting story,â said director Tanner Oharah. The play by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, is set in Haiti and tells a story that is at once a realist portrayal of social stratification in the colonial Caribbean blended with the qualities of a fable with gods from the Voodoo tradition.Â
âYou have all the cultural things that come from that, and then a lot of really abrasive relations between people on that island. That comes out in this story of the poor peasants and the really rich.â
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