Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 2017, Page 107

Description:	[HARD]WORKINGIn March 2017, Theatre South mounted a productionof the show Working, which both offered a freshchange from traditional show choices and challengedthe cast members to grow as actors.Students have been performing in plays atSouth for as long as anyone can remember.While traditionally Theatre South haschosen plays with teenage themes, this yearthe troupe produced Working, a musicalabout different people, mostly adults, andtheir jobs.Working was a change of pace forthe program because of its different themesthan the ones in past shows. Studentsinvolved in this production had to step outof their comfort zones and picturethemselves in the shoes of people theywould not normally think about in theirdaily lives.For example, sophomore HaleyPaulin had to play a woman coming toterms with her position as a housewife. Itwas one of the most challenging rolesPaulin has portrayed because as highschool students, its hard to think aboutwhat its like to live your life as one thing,when were told so often that theres a worldof possibilities.She had to work very hard to be ableto empathize with her character, but Paulinwas eventually able to feel the stress hercharacter felt, and moved many audiencemembers to tears with her rendition of thesong Just a Housewife. Its a beautifulcharacter, and I was so grateful for thechance to play her, Paulin said.The 2017 production of Workingwas also unique in that it was directed andchoreographed by Indiana Universitystudents instead of South faculty.Sophpmore Noah Moore lovedworking with the college students. Becausetheir age was close to ours, they seemed tounderstand how to communicate with usbetter than other directors Ive had in thepast, he explained.Whether it was being exposed todifferent walks of life or learning more abouttheatre from college students, the cast andcrew of Working benefited from a trulyunique experience, and their hard work paidoff: members of the audience enjoyed abeautiful and emotive performance and wereexposed in their own way to the Southstudents extraordinary talent.- ZOE BERENSZTEINHUMANS TOMARS?MAR. 8,2017On March 8, Congress passed abill called the NASA TransitionAuthorization Act of 2017. Thisbill will provide funding for aNASA program thats goal is toget humans near or to thesurface of Mars by 2030. Aftermonths of collaboration amonglawmakers in congress, the billis set to give $19.5 billion to theagency. This bill will also aid infurther developing the SpaceLaunch System (SLS) and theOrion space capsule.1 think that space explorationcan be important, but I alsothink we should be focusing onthe Earth too because thats anecessary thing. There are a lotof people having a lot ofproblems, not just in the UnitedStates, but around the world.JUNIOR MOLLYWAGSCHALTechnically the funding byNASA is less than 1% of nationalfunding, so its not as big. [$19.5billion] may seem like a lot butwe spend much more onmilitary spending and others,[so this isnt that big of a deal]JUNIOR SUJINWOORALLY AGAINST IMMIGRATION 2/241 LA LA LAND TAKES HOME SIX OSCARS AT 89TH ACADEMY AWARDS 2/261 Academics 1107
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