Temple High School theatre students pose for a photo on September 6, 2019, for Theatre Shirt Thursday.
Below is another photo from September 12, 2019
Thanks to everyone who came to the first auditions of this school year. Because of the number of students who attended the auditions, a second production has been added — Fall Footlights. The cast and production staff for these productions are listed on the information page for each show.
WILDERNESS Information Page. (PG-13) Cast and production staff listed with tentative schedule.
FALL FOOTLIGHTS (An Evening of Short Plays) Information Page lists Student Directors and Cast Members. Thursday, October 10 and Saturday, October 12 at 7 p.m. (Note: Earlier time) in the Temple High School Main Cafeteria.Ca
Because of construction in the fine arts section of the building and because the band uses the stage for rehearsals several class periods each day, Temple High Theatre will be performing some shows at alternate locations during this school year.
The first show will be Wilderness, performed at Meridith-Dunbar Auditorium, October 3-6. The play deals with the true stories of six teenagers with various mental illnesses and other problems. Their parents send them to a wilderness therapy camp where they have to learn to cope with their self-destructive tendencies through learning basic survival skills. (PG-13)
Fall Footlights (An Evening of Short Plays with Desserts and Drinks) will be Thursday, October 10 and Saturday, October 12 at 7 p.m. (Note: Earlier time) in the Temple High School Main Cafeteria.
Thursday, November 7 and Sunday, November 10 will be an Interactive Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre.
The group will attend the annual Texas Thespian Festival November 20-23 in Grapevine. The festival typically includes over 8000 attendees. A shortened edition of the play Wilderness will be performed at the convention. Temple will also compete in various individual and team events. Last year, they won state championships in team set design and team mask making, were a finalist for Troupe of the Year and advanced all eight individual event entries to the national contest.
December 13-14-15 brings A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play, presented as a Newcomers Show, on the Temple High stage. The Charles Dickens holiday classic comes to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast, complete with vintage commercials.
Performances of the comedy Love/Sick will be January 24-26 on the Temple High stage. The play, from the creator of Almost, Maine, is a collection of several slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays. Every scene is about love, and especially about love's power to make you sick — not only heartsick, but sometimes physically ill.
Auditions for the annual UIL One-Act Play Contest entry will be January 27 and 28. The first level of competition (zone) will be Saturday, February 29. Last year, Temple advanced through all levels of the contest and, at the state finals, was named 5th in the state out of the 254 schools that began the contest in 6A.
In addition, Mrs. Tolleson is directing several shows for other local theatre organizations. At the Cultural Activities Center, she will direct Eurydice in November and The Diary of Anne Frank in April. Cat of a Hot Tin Roof will be performed in January-February at Temple Civic Theatre.
Temple High Thespian officers participated in one of the regional Texas Thespian Student Leadership Conferences on Saturday, April 10, at Carver Magnet School in Houston.
Front row (from left) includes Kerynn Eckenrode, Lauren Bruckbauer, Mimansha Shrestha, Olivia Cabrera and Kylie Burke. Middle row includes Morgan Madsen and Torrie Culp. Back row includes Ricky Fontanez, Michael Jones, Jonathan Equels, Genevieve Myers, Allie Quiroz, Daniel Salazar and Sereniti Patterson.
Temple High School Thespians participated in "Fish Camp" on August 7 to introduce new incoming students to the theatre arts department. The group will also hold Thespian workdays August 12 and 15. Auditions for the first show of the school year will be Tuesday, August 27.
Thespian officers for 2019-2020 include President Allie Quiroz; Vice President Olivia Cabrera; Secretary Kylie Burke; Treasurers Michael Jones, Torrie Culp and Genevieve Myers; Historians Sereniti Patterson, Kerynn Eckenrode and Ricky Fontanez; Librarians Daniel Salazar and Lauren Bruckbauer; Ambassador Jonathan Equels; Parliamentarian Morgan Madsen; and Photographer Mimansha Shrestha.
MTI (Music Theatre International), one of the world's leading theatrical licensing agencies, featured a rehearsal of Temple's group musical entry from the International Thespian Festival on their Facebook page.
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