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Vol. 52, No. 33
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Warsaw High theatre cast earns top
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%\ %/$,5 %$80*$571(5 6WDII :ULWHU The cast of Warsaw Community High School’s theatre department placed first Sunday, Jan. 22, at the Indiana Thespians State Competition for their performance of “Where Words Once Were” by Finegan Kruckemeyer. The cast was also awarded “Chapter Select,” allowing them to perform at the International Thespian Festival June 18-24 in Bloomington. “The show is set in a dystopian society where the government has control over the entire English language, and they make a rule that there’s only one language and you can only use 1,000 words,” said junior and cast member Luke Henn. “If you use a word wrong or you say a word that’s not on the list, then you are silenced. And when these people are silenced, they can’t speak or communicate, so much so they almost cease to exist.” “They’re basically cancelled, which is the point of the show, because it talks about cancel culture and people being silenced. Someone says this on Twitter and now they’re erased from any social media platform,” said junior Chase Carl.
Senior Edward Robison explained, “The story is about a boy named Orhan who is subservient to this government, but meets this silenced girl and starts to realize there are more than 1,000 words, and there are more ways of expressing feelings and emotions and ideas as a whole. It culminates in the grass roots of a revolution toward being able to express yourself.” “The girl is silenced so they can’t talk to each other. Throughout the show, they never speak to each other. She took a pen and wrote on a wall and changed words on his bakery sign to say certain messages,” said Carl. “The setting is that the boy’s mother, Alli, is a baker. He works with her, baking bread, and the silenced girl changes the words on the bakery sign,” said Robison. Henn added, “The show is written to be visually interesting. The girl would change the letters on the sign to communicate with Orhan, but we also had a projector on stage that would project onto a sheet and it would take certain phrases, like when the girl has a monologue — it would take a phrase and have the words that are banned projected onto a sheet Continued on page 2
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