Missoula Children’s Theatre has returned to Payson for its ninth visit. This year it will lead about 60 local school students in the full-length musical comedy, “Sleeping Beauty.”
Arianne Bauer hung on every word as she sat at the end of the front row of seats during the Longhorn Theatre Companyâs 2021 edition of its annual Senior-Directed One-Act Plays on Thursday night, May 6.
The Payson High School senior couldnât relax as she internally acted out every line during the premiere of the one-act play she directed âThe Fourth Wall,â in the PHS Studio Theatre.
She mouthed the lines and gestured to actors. Bauer also took part, playing the role of an audience member berated by a cast member after her cellphone rang multiple times.
The crowd of 57 spectators thought they were witnessing an actual spur-of-the-moment outburst by an actor directed at a disruptive member of the audience.
SWEETWATER COUNTY While the Food Bank of Sweetwater County may not need any food donations right now, they are planning ahead and asking for monetary donations to help out with the summer months.
Food Bank of Sweetwater County Executive Director Kathy Siler said currently the food banks have been able to keep up with the demand and they still have food.
However, Siler recently found out the local 2021 Letter Carriers’ “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive has been postponed until next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Siler said it was also postponed in 2020 so for the past two years the food bank has had to do without their large donation. According to Siler, the last food drive the letter carriers completed was in 2019. That food drive alone brought in more than 14,200 pounds of food. This was a food drive the food bank had come to rely on.
The Longhorn Theatre Company will present their senior capstone projects this week.
The annual senior-directed one-act plays will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 6 and Saturday, May 8 and at 4:30 p.m., Friday, May 7 in the high school studio theatre, also known as the Black Box Theatre. This is the pale pea-green metal building directly behind the auditorium. The audience door is on the northeast corner. Rope lights and decorations will be set out to guide the way.
PHS senior Cameron Middaugh is directing âMidnight at Worldâs End Cafe,â by Gabriella Miyares. It is about a diner in limbo-land where special agents help normal folks decide their fate.