LEXINGTON, Ky. — SCAPA college students will take the stage for 'The Secret Backyard' Thursday night time. The performing arts college students have been engaged on the present for months — on high of their common schoolwork and extracurriculars.
However these younger performers say they're prepared for opening night time on the Pam Miller Downtown Arts Middle. 25 college students are performing the basic story set within the Moors of England. There's additionally a technical crew working behind the scenes.
"It is a student-run efficiency and we're very pleased with our college students," stated the college's arts facilitator Meredith Raybould. "They've labored so onerous. It is an important factor at SCAPA for us to deliver our work to the neighborhood. We're a public faculty and we're a part of Fayette County."
6th grader Caitlyn Douglas is taking up the lead position of Mary Lennox.
"It was actually thrilling, nevertheless it's additionally been quite a lot of work in rehearsals," she informed LEX 18.
Her friends Kowen Poteet and Jonathon Owens are additionally portraying the principle characters. They are saying it is quite a lot of onerous work and requires perfecting a British accent.
"Going to rehearsal and having to go house and do homework, after which going to mattress, and solely having a restricted quantity of sleep," stated Owens, who's within the fifth grade.
"It is type of exhausting," Poteet added. "It is onerous to maintain a British accent the entire time."
But it surely's all in a day's work for the younger actors on the performing arts faculty and so they say their onerous work might be price it after they deliver 'The Secret Backyard' to the neighborhood.
"I am actually excited to have an viewers to see how they reply to all of the costumes, set and character decisions generally," Douglas stated.
Present Occasions:January 26th at 7 p.m.January 27th at 7 p.m.January 28th at 2 p.m. and seven p.m.
Buy tickets or by calling 859-425-2550.