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Zoe Vorbach and Rose Hanson rehearse a scene from âMarvinâs Room,â which opens Friday night.
MARSHALL It’s been nearly a year and a half since theater students at Marshall High School have performed on their stage.
And with live theater, said MHS English teacher Dan Smith, who is the director for the upcoming production, said one of the recommendations for live theater is to produce a show with smaller casts so that physical distancing can be practiced on stage. So he chose a show with a cast of nine.
“However, more than 30 students came to audition, so I wanted to find a way to give students who weren’t able to be on our stage this fall an opportunity this spring,” Smith said. He said they’re also working on four short one-act plays. “Each of the one acts is a ’10-minute play,’ which is a genre of theater used a lot in education. They’re all compelling scenes that I chose kind of at rand