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FOA stages ‘Sleuth’ for MHS students
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Posted on May 09 2012
By Clarissa V. David
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Friends of the Arts is bringing its latest production, Sleuth, to Marianas High School students to teach them how to appreciate theater.
FOA’s Harold Easton, who directed Sleuth, said a hundred ninth to tenth graders at MHS watched the play yesterday, with another hundred more expected to watch it today.
“It was kind of a last-minute thing, but we decided to offer it to MHS students because it was shown here,” Easton said in a phone interview.
Easton emphasized that the idea behind this initiative is “to use theater as an educational tool.”
“Instead of reading a play and talk about it, they see a play and talk about it,” he added.
According to Easton, doing this is “not an unusual thing in educational theater but it’s unusual out here.”
“We decided to give it a dry run and it’s something we want to promote within the Friends of the Arts next year,” he added.
Easton noted, however, that the educational theater concept would be possible only if it involves a small play. It would also depend on the cast if they can get off work and do the show during the students’ classes.
Easton, who teaches at MHS, said the students will also get the opportunity on Thursday morning to talk to the actors “both as a character and as an actor.”
Staged at the MHS Dolphin Theatre from May 4 to 6, Sleuth stars Leo Goode as Andrew Wyke, “a master of games” with a passion for detective fiction writing, and Bernard Rivera as Milo Tindle, a Jewish-Italian enterprising businessman in the travel industry.
Sleuth culminated FOA’s 2011 to 2012 season.
