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THE HANOVER HIGH SCHOOL BROADSIDE October 2013 The Hanover Footlighters Does Rainbow Alliance Cymbeline By: Darby Phillips to show your support, whether you The Hanover Rainbow Al- are out or an ally. By: Maggie McFeeley liance is at it again. The club is Do you want to see cross- making efforts to raise awareness “I think that awareness is dressing, violence, murder, and for respect towards the LBGT com- the most important thing, and we a makeout session at Hanover munity. The Rainbow Alliance is need the support of everyone in the High School? Then come see the currently planning to have some school, to accept everyone in the Footlighters’ fall production, fundraisers, including a possible school and in the community,” says Cymbeline! The play was written tie-dye event. Students will have an Kaila Tomlin, an active member of by William Shakespeare and will opportunity to purchase a white t- the club. be directed by the brilliant Josh shirt and tie-dye it any color they Feder. Come see it on Thursday, want to. Hanover Rainbow Alliance Friday, or Saturday, November mainly works off of the website 7th, 8th, or 9th. Ally week is coming up fast and education organization GLSEN and furious; it is the week of Oc- (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Educa- You may be familiar with tober 21-25th. The Rainbow Alli- tion Network.) GLSEN works to raise Josh Feder’s work if you saw his ance has also been thinking of re- awareness and have events to sup- choreography in North Country peating last year’s popular events. port the community. We are taking Community Theatre’s Anything For example, they might distrib- the ideas of GLESN and applying Goes, or if you took the Let’s ute the same paper necklaces that them to our school environment. Dance March Intensive last year were distributed last year that say, This also includes the stickers that in which Josh helped out. Josh “I am an ally because,” followed are on some of the doors; they are is a Dartmouth graduate and the by a blank space in which people the safe space stickers, telling kids education director for the New can complete the sentence. People that, the room is a place where London Barn Playhouse as well would write things like, “I am an they can be themselves. We want as a director and choreographer ally because everyone should be to make every room in the school a for their Junior Intern Program. able to love whoever they want.” safe place for every student at our With his help, the Footlighters are Overall Ally Week week is a week school. sure to present an entertaining ver- stereotypically evil and conniving sion of this confusing play. stepmother . The queen wants Imo- gen to marry her son, Cloten (Rob- Shakespeare wrote Cymbeline ert McAndrew), so that her son will when he was a crotchety old man. inherit the kingdom. It’s pretty much a mash-up of all the comedies he wrote throughout This play is going to be jam- his career. If you decide to come packed with entertainment and fun. see this fabulous production, you’ll You can even look out for a couple see some very distinct similarities of musical numbers. If you’re some- between pieces of this story and one who has been contemplating elements of other plays. The title joining the Footlighters, be sure character is loosely based on the to sign up to act and/or tech for Celtic British king, Cunobeline. the winter show. The Government However, there is nearly no similar- Inspector is a smashing comedy ity between the character Cymbe- written by Nikolai Gogol which will line and the man Cunobeline other be directed by Mary Gaetz and pro- than their shared name and their duced by our very own Amy Good. royal titles. Footlighters is always looking for new people and appreciates every- The plot is: Cymbeline (Owen one’s efforts! Be sure to drop by the O’Leary), is the king of Britain. He weekend of November sixth for the lives with his daughter from his exciting production of Cymbeline. first marriage, Imogen (Catherine Collison), and the queen (Anjali Hanover Football vs Lebanon Sundaram). Imogen is in love with Photo courtesy of Mike Stinson Posthumus (Jakub Bobrowicz), a man who was raised in her father’s court. All would live happily ever after, except there is a catch. Post- humus is poor and Imogen has a October 2013 2 SCHOOL NEWS The Broadside Fords Rants: Holy Deadlines, The Fewture Batman! Today - The Fewture of the they will all be gone - offshore. You By: Alexandra Shworak of my fellow seniors, asking about American Public High School will all be what we now call ‘entre- We all knew it was coming, when their first deadlines fall, and preneurs” - pursuing your own in- but we didn’t know how fast it how prepared they feel. Two se- It is important that you think terests and passions and hustling would come. Senior year is upon us. niors I talked to have early action about the fewture - ‘cuz you are it. about to try to make money doing The first set of college applications or decision deadlines on November And besides - it’s fun. The fewture them. So the content you need to is due in a few weeks, and we’ve 1st, and November 15th. Surpris- of the American public high school get from high school really needs got essays to write, transcripts to ingly, neither of them are all that is quite interesting. So much en- to be the development of the skills request, and our favorite standard- worried about it. They’ve done ergy - and money - has gone into you will need to be successful ized tests to retake. Not to mention their work on the common app, improving the high school and or even to survive. Oh, and did I a full course load and extra curricu- and since they’re in APW, they al- making it more effective - mak- mention that your hustling will be lar activities. Sleep? What’s that? ready have an essay that’s been ed- ing it better than in Singapore. taking you all over the world, both ited by a teacher. However, a senior And it hasn’t worked. Some wise- physically and in cyberspace? I feel lucky, having watched girl with a November 1 deadline guy said recently said that the only my older sister, Jocelyn, go through is very stressed, because she still real change in the high school over So get ready and get to work the college process two years ago, needs another teacher recommen- the last 50 years is that the black- on building what you need for I learned a lot from watching her dation. At the opposite end of the boards are now white........ this different fewture. At least try scramble at the last minute when stress scale, I spoke to a senior who to find out what the fewture will her first deadline came around. said only this: “I don’t even know But that is about to change. be. Read what folks are thinking Seniors, this is a little late for you, when my deadlines are.” One se- The High School of the fewture will about it. Then you think about it but juniors, start early. It’ll keep nior girl I’ve spoken to already has be quite different. It will have only and where you want to be in it. It’s your stress down when common her first acceptance. We’re all over three things - a registrar’s office better to take it seriously and find app crashes on deadline day. On the place. (Yeah, Stacy!), teachers’ offices, and out what it will be like rather than that same note, don’t go into com- conference rooms. No classrooms, stumbling into it blindly - and end- mon app when it goes live on Au- Many seniors are taking hon- no cafeteria, no Dean’s Office, no ing up working at MacDonalds or gust 1st, because it’ll crash on you ors classes, often three or more. guidance office and no athletic fa- Foodstop (oops! That’s gone with four times before you can get any- Most of us are doing extra-curric- cilities. WHAT?????? Well maybe video, replace by Irving’s Circle K) thing done. So start early...but not ular activities. Over half of the se- it will still have an atrium - and and living at the Shelter. too early. Another thing I realized niors are getting 6 to 8 hours of an atrium guy to direct people to more recently: theatre administra- sleep, which is quite good for be- where they have to go. But do not be depressed and tion majors don’t apply to the same ing pretty close to our first dead- worried about this fewture; it is schools as bio majors. So if you’ve lines. The senior class is doing a You see, all the learning will be clear that the forces of individual been on a lot of college tours with lot of college touring. Most of us taking place outside the school - in choice and options are growing an older sibling, and they were are working on our essays and get- the community facilities like offic- amazingly. Individuals can now a history major and you want to ting though the common app. But, es, farms, daycare centers and the publish their own books, distribute study chemistry, tour different some people haven’t started, and like.
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