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Kansas Thespian Festival

1/8/2017

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What a terrific time we had at Kansas Thespian Festival! We were proud to be the school with the most students there — 47!

Freshman McKenna Shaw received a superior rating in her individual event, a solo from the musical "Band Geeks" called "Lost in the Brass," that she was invited to sing at the Thespian Gala — a red carpet event with about 2,000 in attendance! 


For the 10th straight year, PHS was awarded the highest level, Gold Honor Troupe, after an interview with judges and a review of our work. This year, Cassie Hurt-McLarty, troupe historian, presented a scrapbook of all troupe activities and performances for the year.  Coral VanBecelaere represented us as one of five state officers. Our lobby display took top honors! And we got to see an original one-act play written by PHS's very own Meghan Hess, who won the Kansas Playworks contest, auditioned and performed!

We also attended several main stage shows by top high schools across the state, competed in improv, charade games, and costume challenges, learned new things in workshops — we even got an impromptu choreography lesson just outside the elevator by a New York director!

As soon as we returned home, we all agreed: We can't wait to go back!

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World Premier

1/7/2017

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Today was a special day in the life of PHS junior Meghan Hess, who aspires to be a professional screenwriter or playwright. At the Kansas Thespian Festival, her play, "Tender is the Tell-Tale Heart: A Brief Odyssey of Love," was brought to life in a "world premier."

Meghan, who wrote the one-act in an independent study with PHS theatre teacher Greg Shaw, submitted it to the Kansas Thespian Playworks contest and it was chosen as the top entry in the state. Yesterday during the festival, auditions were held and a cast selected.

Today, the cast workshopped it and performed it to a sizable audience of fellow festival attendees. Story summary: F. Scott Fitzgerald (played by Ryan Leibold of Free State High School), Edgar Allen Poe (played by Austin Hancock of Field Kinley High School), and Homer (played by Chris Pendry of Free State High School), come to life as a figment of the imagination of a young poet (played by Katy Brown of PHS) attempting to craft the perfect poem for her true love (played by Alex Perkins of PHS).

​Following a Standing O, Meghan fielded questions and suggestions for improving it before taking it to the International Thespian Festival this summer.
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  • Welcome
  • About
    • Courses
    • Auditions
    • Faculty
    • Theatre Etiquette
    • Awards & Recognition
  • Shows
    • Clue
    • Forbidden Broadway
    • Breakfast With Santa
    • Spamalot
    • Social Issue Plays
    • Just Off Broadway Theatre Camp
  • Thespian Troupe 3149
    • Officers
  • A look back
    • Show History
    • Trailers
    • Photo Galleries
    • Media Coverage
    • Story of My Life: A Tribute to Derek Brumbaugh
  • Friends
  • News