SPHS theatre program shines at Trumbauer
For the eighth time in the school’s history, Spain Park High School’s theatre program has been selected to represent the state of Alabama at the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC).
Its one-act play, Amelia the Brave, competed against 15 other one-acts from across Alabama at the Trumbauer festival and will join Bob Jones High School (Madison) as Alabama’s entries in the regional festival. SETC, which will be held in Mobile in early March, features works from 10 states.
“What sets this play apart from other entries and other shows we’ve done in the past is that it was entirely written, scored, designed and built by the students,” Spain Park High School theatre director Eric St. John said. “Amelia the Brave is a mix of pantomime, puppetry, live music and animation — and the students made it themselves. The judges at Trumbauer had such praise for the show,”
Seven of Spain Park’s individual events placed in their respective categories, St. John said. Amelia the Brave will be staged locally once again in January. For more information, call 439-1465.
According to its website, the Walter Trumbauer Festival “has provided quality training and performance opportunities for Alabama theatre students at the secondary level since 1940. The festival consists of 28 individual events, a one-act play festival, a studio theatre festival-all for ninth through 12th grades, as well as scholarship auditions and college screening for high school seniors and junior college students. Students qualify for the state competition by earning a rating of ‘superior’ at one of six district festivals.”