{"id":37553,"date":"2021-04-13T13:58:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/?p=37553"},"modified":"2022-06-29T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T18:56:28","slug":"dessert-theater-takes-the-outdoor-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/2021\/04\/dessert-theater-takes-the-outdoor-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"All Hands on Deck for EMS Outdoor Dessert Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth and fifth grade students painted sets, wrote scripts, created costumes, memorized lines, managed technical aspects,\u00a0 and performed for teachers and peers at the annual Eastern Mennonite Elementary School Dessert Theater this year.\u00a0 A video for parents took the place of the usual evening performance; snacks in to-go cups replaced the more formal desserts enjoyed in pre-COVID days.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the limitations, everyone appreciated the show, those watching, and those who made the production possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to me that kids start right away seeing theatre as an integrated art,\u201d said said director and music teacher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/facultystaff\/joy-anderson\/\">Joy Anderson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year we adapted two story books instead of full plays, due to microphone limitations with an outdoor performance,\u201d\u00a0 Anderson explained.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth graders performed <em>What Really Happened to Humpty\u00a0<\/em>by Jeanie Franz Ransom, and the fourth grade performed <em>Giraffes Can\u2019t Dance<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees.<\/p>\n<p>Leading up to the show, students helped with set construction under the direction of volunteer Ethan Zook \u201972, supporter of EMS theatre. Students also helped with painting, costume design and adaptation of the story books into scripts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also had a stage and props team, as well as tech team that ran sound almost independently,\u201d said Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>And, continued Anderson, who directs middle and high school productions as well, \u201cWe now have a set of rehearsal cubes we can use in the theatre department that our fifth graders will remember building\u2026\u00a0 We also have some budding tech folks!\u201d she noted with enthusiasm.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth and fifth grade students painted sets, wrote scripts, created costumes, memorized lines, managed technical aspects,\u00a0 and performed for teachers and peers at the annual Eastern Mennonite Elementary School Dessert Theater this year.\u00a0 A video for parents took the place of the usual evening performance; snacks in to-go cups replaced the more formal desserts enjoyed\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[40,135,109,396],"class_list":["post-37553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-elementary","tag-emes","tag-the-arts","tag-theater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37553"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}