Performing Art: Drama
Welcome to the Drama Department!
New and exciting changes are happening in the Drama Department this year. Check out our new Drama Club. The students run every aspect of the club, including meetings, which will include guest speakers from the St. Louis professional theatre, events, such as our student directed One-Acts, and celebrations, like our banquet at the end of the school year.
Whether your interest is on stage, or back stage, we hope you will get involved in the exciting new directions of the drama department at St. Joseph’s Academy.
2008-2009 Productions
February 2009: FOOLS by Neil Simon
In Neil Simon’s comedy, "Fools" we meet Leon, an inspired, young teacher who has answered an ad requesting a teacher for the small Ukrainian Village of Kulyenchikov. Once there he discovers the town is loaded with the illiterate and uninformed. Everyone in the town is a fool because they are the victims of a scorned lover’s curse that has rendered the town’s citizens stupid for the last 200 years. Leon discovers that he has only one day to break the curse or he too will fall under the spell and become a fool. Trying to solve this problem brings about a hysterical story of love, stupidity, and the human condition.
An interesting side note to this play is that in Neil Simon’s divorce degree from Marsha Mason awarded her the rights to the next play he produced. So he wrote Fools hoping it would be a flop. It turned out to have a very successful Broadway run, and continues to play hilariously to audiences across America.
The cast of the show included Mariah Mathews, Emily Johnson, Maria Latham, Theresa O’Brian, Chelsea Krankeola, Emily O’Hanlon, Paige Wheeler, Allie Stammer, Mandy Murphy, Sophia Monti, Claire Virden, Mary Kate O’Brien, Hillary Fitz, Caitlin Cowlen, C. Blaire Adams, Sean Tiffin, and Mark Poelker.
For more images of this production click on the PHOTO GALLERIES link on the left of this page.
Student Directed One Acts
March 2009
Each spring, students direct and present One Act productions. For images from this show, click on the photo gallery link to the left.
