ACPS students take the stage for the first time this year Students at Western Albemarle High School practice with drama director Caitlin Pitts. (Source: wvir) By Elizabeth Holmes | April 1, 2021 at 1:04 PM EDT - Updated April 1 at 1:04 PM
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - For the drama students at Western Albemarle High School, COVID-19 felt like closing the curtain, an “end scene” to their time on stage.
“This department has been my life for four years. I put in so much time into all of these shows,” WAHS senior Baylee Hughes said. “You let out a lot of your emotional baggage on a stage and it’s very therapeutic to act, so losing that and losing that space to express yourself is a huge loss and it’s very hard to deal with.”