You won’t want to miss attending the wild and wacky Theater in Sports performance by CCHS seniors enrolled in College in the Schools English. Students taking the stage will be L-R: Sam Meyer, Andy Kern, Noah Works, Jack Fredrikson, David Blackburn, Joe James, Isak Terrill, Linnea Gesch, Nina Woerheide, Leif Anderson, Raina Ryden, Finn Gary, Abigail Prom, and Lucy Callender. Not pictured: Jamie Johnson.
Do you like to laugh? If you enjoy a low cost evening of highly entertaining fun, then mark you calendar for March 16 and attend the Cook County High School Theater Sports Live event. Cook County College in the Schools (CITS) high school seniors will be laying it all on the line for you at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts at 7 p.m. Shows run up to two hours long.
Cost is $5 per person to attend.
Coached by Michael McHugh, Theater Sports is improvisational theater with a competitive sports angle. Two teams compete against each in a series of wacky scenes or suggestions presented to them by the audience or Mr. McHugh.
Keith Johnstone and his Loose Moose Theater invented Theater Sports sometime in the late 1970s. Johnstone, originally from England, was teaching in Calgary, Alberta at the time. Typically two teams are judged on a scale of zero to five, although no scores are usually kept.
Proceeds from Theater in Sports are used to pay for the college literature class’s annual theater trip to the Twin Cities. CCHS English teacher Stephanie Lundorff teaches a college literature course for the University of Minnesota (UMD) to CCHS students.
On April 26-27, as part of the course, said Lundorff, “We will visit the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and we will also see the Guthrie production of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. The Guthrie also gives us a backstage tour of the set build studio, the costume studio, and all of the behind-the-scenes work spaces of the Guthrie.”
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