This year in the 6A classification, 249 schools entered the UIL One-Act Play competition. Now there are only eight schools remaining — and Temple High's team is one of the Elite Eight. The state meet will be Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1 at the Waxahachie High School Performing Arts Center, 3001 US Hwy 287 Bypass, Waxahachie TX 75167. Temple will be the 7th school to perform (Saturday at 3 p.m.)

Performance Times, Schools and Titles include:        (sf = Scenes from)

FRIDAY, APRIL 30
   10:00 am Waxahachie High — sf Blue Stockings
   12:30 pm Midland High — sf The Old Man and the Old Moon
   3:00 pm Glenda Dawson High (Pearland) — sf 33 Variations
   5:30 pm Harlingen High South — sf Anatomy of Gray
SATURDAY, MAY 1
   10:00 am Taft High (San Antonio) — sf The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
   12:30 pm Frenship High (Wolfforth) — sf Blue Stockings
   3:00 pm Temple High — sf Student Body
   5:30 pm Deer Park High  — sf Moon Over Buffalo

TICKETS: Tickets are available ONLINE ONLY. (No onsite ticket sales.) The cost is $10 PER SHOW plus ticketing fees. Tickets go on sale to each participating school on Tuesday, April 20. Each school will have an access code to purchase tickets for that school's performance. On Monday, April 26, at 8 a.m., any unsold tickets will be available to the general public. The facility has 403 seats. Face masks are required. Doors will open approximately 15 minutes prior to each performance. Audiences must leave after each performance and will have to exit the building. Guests may not congregate in the lobby. Tickets are non-refundable.

Adjudicators include Kim Frederick, Kelsey Kling and Kathy Harvey. Contest manager is Dr. Jerry Ivins.

 about Temple's entry.

PUBLIC PERFORMANCES IN TEMPLE prior to the State Meet: Friday, April 23 and Saturday, April 24 at 7 p.m. at the Temple High Auditorium. Admission is $5 per person (cash only). Masks are required.

     Temple High's UIL One-Act Play Team is going back to the state meet. This will be the 5th time in the last six state meets that Temple has competed. (There was no state meet in 2020 because of COVID.) The team advanced from the regional meet held April 16-17 at University High in Waco. Temple was the first school out of eight to perform during the two-day event. Temple's 2021 play is Student Body by Frank Winters. Also advancing to the state meet was Waxahachie High with Blue Stockings. The alternate advancing school was George Washington Carver Magnet High from Houston.
     Genevieve Myers was named one of the two Best Performers in the region. Hanna Prince was named to the Regional All-Star Cast and Cameron Hooper was selected for the Regional Honorable Mention All-Star Cast. Daniel Salazar was named to the Regional All-Star Crew.
     The 6A state meet will be Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1 at Waxahachie High. Four schools will perform each day. It is reported that tickets will be sold online. Adjudicators will be Kim Frederick, Kelsey Kling and Kathy Harvey.
     More details will be posted as information becomes available.
     At Waxahachie, Temple will be competing against Waxahachie High (Blue Stockings), Wolfforth: Frenship High (Blue Stockings), Harlingen High South (Anatomy of Gray), San Antonio: Taft High (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), Midland High (The Old Man and the Moon), Pearland: Dawson High (33 Variations) and Deer Park High (Moon Over Buffalo). 

The Regional Contest for UIL One-Act Play will be Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17 at University High School in Waco. At the beginning of the one-act contest season, 249 Texas 6A schools were entered. Now there are only 32 schools left in the competition. Two of the eight schools at this regional contest will advance to the 6A State Finals in Waxahachie.

Admission is $10 per person (plus $1.50 fee per ticket) and is good for one day only. TICKETS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE. Face masks are required. A maximum of 400 tickets will be sold each day. The house will open 10 minutes before each performance. Audience members may NOT remain in the house between performances. The awards ceremony will be broadcast on Zoom around 7:30 p.m. Saturday evening.

Link for online tickets: http://university-theatre.ticketleap.com/region-ii-6a-one-act-play

The contest will follow the same procedure that was used at the bi-district contest. Each school will arrive, unload their truck, have their rehearsal on the stage, perform their show for judges and audience, receive their oral critique and load their items back on their truck.

Approximate performance times include: 

FRIDAY, APRIL 16
   10:00 a.m., Temple High, Student Body  (<--Information Page)
   12:30 p.m., Bridgeland High (Cypress), Second Samuel
   3:00 p.m., Westfield High (Spring), Eclipsed
   5:30 p.m., George Washington Carver Magnet High (Houston), The Diviners

SATURDAY, APRIL 17
   10:00 a.m., Rockwall-Heath High, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
   12:30 p.m., Waxahachie High, Blue Stockings
   3:00 p.m., Garland High, Silent Sky
   5:30 p.m., Tomball High, The Crucible

Adjudicators will be Allana Patterson, Eric Vera and Jim Rambo. Contest Manager is Larry Carpenter.

From Temple, you would travel north on Interstate 35 and take the New Road (#331) Exit. Turn right onto New Road and travel about one-half mile, passing the main school building. Turn right onto Old Robinson Road. You will see the auditorium on your right.

Scenes from Temple High's production of Student Body   

     Temple ISD’s middle schools held their annual One-Act Play Contest on Saturday, April 10, at Temple High School. The event was sponsored by Temple High Thespians. Glenn C. Price of Waco served as the critic judge.
     Winning the city championship was Lamar Middle School (L), “Tortoise vs. Hare 2: This Time It’s Personal”, directed by Spencer Tolleson. Second place was Bonham Middle School (B), “The Rehearsal”, directed by Isaac Howell. Third place was awarded to Travis Science Academy (T), “Lafayette No. 1”, directed by Morgan Ubanovsky.
     Brinley Belson (B) was named best actress and Timothy Painter (L) was named best actor.
     The all-star cast included Mason Abbey (L), Rania Ahmed (T), Kadyn Alley (B), Nash Belson (B), Lydia Livesay (T), Nettie Royal (L), Avery Tarbet (B), and Jered Wozniak (L).
     The honorable mention all-star cast included Genevieve Allen (T), Ka’myhria Freeman (L), Cheyenne Kepler (T), Isaiah Mackay (L), Avery Morris (B), Zoey Robinson (T), Marissa Rutkowski (B), and Areya Simmons (B).
     The contest followed the same rules as the UIL high school competition.

At the District 12-6A Speech Academic Meet, held March 24 at Belton High, the five speech contests sent a total of 15 students to the regional competition. Out of those 15 advancers, 10 were from Temple High School.

Temple students advancing to regional include:
Informative Speaking = Smrutu Ramanathan, Kylie Burke, Mimansha Shrestha
Lincoln-Douglas Debate = Marc Wong
Persuasive Speaking = Marc Wong
Poetry Interpretation = Austin Madsen, Michael Rodriguez
Prose Interpretation = Sereniti Patterson, Genevieve Myers, Saniyah Galbreath

Temple also won the District Champion Team awards for Literary Criticism and Speech. Alivea Johnson was named the alternate advancing student in persuasive speaking.

Five Temple theatre students were named State Qualifiers in the annual UIL Theatrical Design contest. This year the students created designs for Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman. Results will be announced during a virtual ceremony on Monday, May 10. Students will be furnished with the judge's critiques from the preliminary round and are allowed to make revisions before the state finals.

Temple students include Genevieve Myers (set design), Sereniti Patterson (hair and make-up design), Hanna Prince (costume design), Daniel Salazar (theatrical marketing), and Kelsi Seiter (theatrical marketing). Temple competes in UIL Division 2, which includes only 5A and 6A schools.

     Scenes from Student Body, by Frank Winters, has been selected as Temple High School's entry in the 2021 UIL One-Act Play Contest. The cast and production staff list is posted on the show's Information Page.
     As a winter storm approaches, nine high school students find themselves summoned into a darkened theatre at midnight. None of them knows what they are doing there or for what reason they, specifically, have been asked to come. Not until the tenth student arrives to ask them all for their advice. What happens next will test the strength of their character and the bonds of their friendship in ways they could never have imagined when the evening began and the storm rolled in.
     The first round of competition is the district contest on Saturday, March 13, at Temple High School. Eight schools will compete and three of those schools will advance to bi-district.
     The UIL announced they will skip the area level of competition for this year. Two schools from the bi-district contest (March 25) will advance directly to the region contest.
     Last year, Temple was named District Champion for the 28th year in a row. The UIL then suspended competition because of COVID. Some schools never got to compete at all last year.