See Six Degrees of Separation This Weekend

by Catherine Coke, director

John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation, USN’s high school winter production, runs through Saturday. 

Some important things to know:
 
•   Because of the reconfiguration of the stage, with much of the play performed on the house floor, audience seating is in the round.  Thus, seating will be limited to 130. 
•   The show is 90 minutes long, with no intermission.
•   Most importantly: once the doors close at the beginning of the show, no one else will be allowed in.  Because the play is set so intimately, anyone entering after the beginning would truly distract the audience and actors alike, thus diminishing the experience. 

We encourage you to make reservations now.

Six Degrees of Separation led Ms. Cheap's list of "quality live theater on the cheap."
 
Theatre in high school is an invaluable experience for students -- to explore themselves, their emotions and their intellect, connecting the dots with what they feel and what they know;  to empathize with others in constructive ways;  to collaborate on a different level which cannot be presented in a classroom setting.  In essence, Theatre’s the outlet to understand what it is to be human.
 
Six Degrees of Separation addresses many issues that “young-adults-in-the-making” face:  familial hierarchies, racial perceptions, socio-economic disparities, materialism and the “disposable society,” sexuality, artistic validity, the importance of celebrity.  That our students get to explore these issues through a play is a healthy exercise in “growing forward into their futures.”  
 
It all sounds so serious, but we’ve had fun creating the world of the script as well.  When I asked cast members to comment about the experience, they moved in the direction of the “creative take” not the “critical analytic.” Sam Fisher ’16 said:  “I call a man a salad!”  This is true in the script, yet funny without context and maybe deeply philosophical in its relativity.
 
All said, the rehearsal process for this particular show has been enlightening, illuminating, and absolutely creative for everyone involved.  As the character Paul (played by Alex Bahner ’17) says:  “Our imagination teaches us our limits and then how to grow beyond those limits.” 
 
Performances are Wednesday, February 10 and Thursday, February 11 at 5PM;  Friday, February 12 at 7PM;  and Saturday, February 13 at 2PM and 7PM.  Tickets are free for students, faculty, staff and TAP members.  Tickets are $5 for the general public.
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