Garden City saw a weekend packed with theater performances from the local high school and community college in late February. Audiences were treated to productions of “Godspell” and “Crimes of the Heart”, but they had to choose between the two: Each scheduled Friday and Saturday evening performances and a Sunday matinee. Overlapping show weeks isn’t a new trend with theater in Western Kansas. Smaller districts’ annual plays have been historically slapped into “Buffer Week,” the break between fall and winter sports, as a student’s one chance to perform with friends as a cast. This trend of “feast or famine” when it comes to performance opportunities is quite modern, since the craft of acting and storytelling have been around to entertain and educate since our most primitive civilizations. What our modern culture chooses, in the end, to promote and fund has shifted. Thus today’s young Kansans’ dreams have been turned away from the plains.
Source: Kansas Reflector
