Brunswick High School Presents Award Winning Competition Plays October 27–29
The award winning Brunswick High School Production Company will present its one-act competition pieces, Digging Up Dessa by Lauren Schellhardt, directed by Lucy Lynn Bryson, and One Lane Bridge by Stephen Gregg, directed by Brad Butler. The public performances will take place October 27–29 at 6:30 p.m. in the Brunswick High School auditorium.
Come take advantage of this fabulous double feature. Two shows for the price of one. Tickets are $5 general admission; $10 reserved seating. Advance tickets are available at bhspc.ludus.com. The box office opens at 6:00 p.m. each performance night.
Last weekend the BHS Production Company took both productions to the Georgia Theatre Conference in Columbus, GA bringing home a number of awards. The Studio production, One Lane Bridge , was the overall Studio Festival winner and will have the opportunity to represent the state of Georgia at the Southeastern Theatre Conference in Lexington, KY. This is the second year in a row BHS has won this festival, last year placing second at SETC. June Sellars won Best Supporting Performer. Crosby Alderman and Savannah Vohwinkle both were named to the All Star Cast.
The One-Act Production, Digging Up Dessa, was well received by audiences and adjudicators. Addi O’Quinn and Kendall Morris were both named to the All Star Cast as well. They will be performing Digging Up Dessa at the GHSA Region 1-AAAAAA One Act competition on Nov 6th, going up against 8 other schools. Last year, BHSPC took 1st place and competed at the state One Act competition.
About the Plays
Digging Up Dessa: Dessa is a 21st-century girl with no shortage of struggles, secrets and mysteries to solve. From dinosaur bones to hidden memories, the world is filled with buried treasures just waiting to be uncovered. Luckily, thanks to the mysterious appearance of a remarkable friend—the pioneering 19th-century English paleontologist Mary Anning—young Dessa knows just how to excavate them. After a field trip to a museum reveals that Mary Anning’s legacy has been buried by history because of her gender and lack of formal education, Dessa decides that she’s going to fight to earn her friend the credit she deserves. With help from her once-rival, Nilo, Dessa sets to work unearthing the secrets hidden beneath the surface of the past and present—for Mary’s history and her own future.
One Lane Bridge: A snowy night. A drive through a mountain canyon. ‘Nothing bad happens if I’m late’ thinks 16-year-old Eli as he creeps along this winding road. He doesn’t know anything about his soon-to-be passenger, Samantha, except that she’s a friend of a friend and needs a ride to Home Depot. But Eli is glad for the company, especially considering the stuff that’s been going on in his town. Soon, though, Eli’s terrible driving sparks an argument, and the conversation takes an odd, dark turn. Eli and Samantha tell stories designed to scare each other. Eli’s story is haunting, but he’s out of his league. Once Samantha tells her story, Eli finds himself driving too fast, not because he’s going to be late, but because he wants out of that car. Eli’s not going to make it to Home Depot. One Lane Bridge is relentlessly compelling, genuinely scary and contains one moment so startling that your audience is guaranteed to talk about it afterward.
