Cambridge takes fourth at State Play Production
NORFOLK - The Cambridge One Act took fourth place at the NSAA Class C2 State Play Production competition in Norfolk Thursday with their performance of “The Miracle Worker” by William Gibson.
Cambridge performed at the Johnny Carson Theatre in Norfolk at 8:3o Thursday morning and the awards were announced in a video released by the NSAA Thursday evening. Creighton was the Class C2 State Champion while Loup City was State Runner-up. Elmwood-Murdock was third, followed by Cambridge, Howells-Dodge and Hemingford.
Cambridge’s Shane Horwart, Brodie Mitchell, Gaby Raburn, Grace Brown, Jacey Kent and Ali Webb were all awarded the Outstanding Performance Award.
“The Miracle Worker” is a 3o-minute adaptation of a work from William Gibson. In the play, Helen is a bright, strong, energetic child -- but left both blind and deaf in the wake of an illness as a baby, she is also a feral, frustrated mystery to her exhausted family. As a last resort, her family send for a governess from the prestigious Perkins Institute for the Blind, and get Annie Sullivan, a lively and stubborn Yankee girl, barely out of school herself, with the experience of childhood blindness -- now cured, after numerous operations -- and the title of valedictorian her main recommendations. Driven by the demons of her traumatic past, Annie, the unlikely Miracle Worker, fights to reach Helen and bring light to the darkness of her mind. But faced with the well-meaning pity of the Kellers, the curious sneers of James, and the fearful, furi-ous trickery of Helen herself, it will take all of Annie’s patience, creativity, and firmness of spirit to bring about the transformation of Helen, the trapped wild creature, into Helen, the brilliant and communicative child she could become.
The cast list is as follows:
Doctor: Domonic Ayer; Kate: Gaby Raburn; Keller: Shane Horwart; Helen: Grace Brown; Aunt Ev: Destiny Guess; James: Brodie Mitchell; Viney: Ali Webb; Annie: Jacey Kent; Percy: Bailee Ahlemeyer; Martha: Brenna Deterding; Technical Crew: Korinne Benson, Chloe Besler, Kyle Borland, Jacob Corbett, Jordyn Cross, Autumn Deterding, Leah Downer, Austin Harris, Keithen Huntley, Jalen Kent, Kamryn McArthur, Emma Rasmussen, Shiloh Shepherd, Brylyn Springer and Megan tenBensel.
