Kids practice improv, acting

The Children's Summer Theater Workshop is in full swing this week with a performance on Saturday morning.

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July 19, 2022 - 3:01 PM

From left, Seattle Nagy, Olivia Appling and Wilder Schooler rehearse a scene from a CSTW workshop session Wednesday. Photo by Richard Luken / Iola Register

The public will get a chance to check out the next generation of young thespians Saturday with the culmination of the Children’s Summer Theater Workshop.

For the past two weeks, 37 students from grade 3 through high school, have been learning the fundamentals of acting, while writing a scripted play that will be performed Saturday morning at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

Students also will show off their improvisational skills during the show, which begins at 9 a.m. in the Bowlus auditorium.

This year is the 26th CSTW session, director John Higginbotham noted.

The production is sponsored by the Daniels Bequest.

Lainey Oswald, standing, hovers over her fellow actors during a Children’s Summer Theater Workshop session Tuesday morning. Others in the skit are, from foreground, Chloe Sinclair, Eliana Higginbotham, Braylon Kiethly and Sydney Ebberts. Photo by Richard Luken / Iola Register
Children’s Summer Theater Workshop director John Higginbotham demonstrates the pulley system that controls backdrops and banks of lights on the Bowlus Fine Arts Center Stage Tuesday as part of a CSTW tour of the Bowlus.Photo by Richard Luken / Iola Register
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