Bridge City High School’s UIL One Act Play team has advanced to the Area level for the first time in 15 years. They have advanced from two levels of competition, District and Bi-District. Area Competition will be held Saturday, April 9th at Magnolia High School
Awards: (only 8 given out of 6 schools)
District and Bi-District All Star Cast:
Katelynn Haynes
District and Bi-District Honorable Mention All Star Cast
District and Bi-District All Star Cast:
Katelynn Haynes
District and Bi-District Honorable Mention All Star Cast
Play, “Anatomy of Gray” by Jim Leonard
Setting: Gray, Indiana during the late 1800’s
Synopsis:
The play starts with a prologue, in which June Muldoon explains that the town of Gray, Indiana is a very boring place. She says that the play will chronicle her story, and the first chapter is started.
The play then shifts to the funeral service of Adam Muldoon, June’s late father and dedicated town farmer. After feeling immense grief at her father’s loss, and seeing her mother’s endless sorrow, June writes a letter to
God in which she wishes for her town to receive a doctor, so that “nobody will ever die again.”
Later, a massive storm, followed by a tornado, causes a man in a balloon to crash near the town. Rescued by June and the townspeople, he is revealed to be a doctor named Galen P. Gray, a fact which June is immensely excited by. The (mainly uneducated) citizens of Gray both look up to and misunderstand the doctor, creating many humorous situations. Such as how Gray has a strange aversion to blood, which is quite unhelpful in his profession.
He diagnoses the townspeople with various ailments, which they are ironically amazed by, and everything seems to be going well. In the meantime, Gray falls in love with Rebekah Muldoon, June’s mother, who is revealed to be pregnant with her late husband’s daughter while June feels the same way – for the doctor.
Gray begins to notice strange marks on certain townspeople, and soon those who are “marked” start becoming ill and even dying. Blaming the doctor for the appearance of the plague, Pastor Wingfield and a mob of other citizens attempt to chase Gray out of the town, but are stopped by June and the fact that the Pastor is suffering severely from kidney stones. Under the doctor’s instruction, June manages to operate on the Pastor and save his life, causing the townspeople to soften up to the doctor.
Meanwhile, Rebekah gives birth to her baby, who is not marked like Rebekah. The sickness is getting worse, and more and more people are becoming afflicted every day. In a move to save those who they can, the townspeople and the doctor send June and her little sister, as well as Homer, a farm boy who has had a crush on June, in a raft across the river to the outside world. As the few who are not “marked” float away on the raft, the doctor comes to the conclusion that the illness is likely caused by contaminated water, remarking that he always boils his water, June drinks his water, and Homer doesn’t drink water (preferring soda pop, a running gag in the play).
The play ends at its beginning with June explaining that she wrote down her history to tell to her little sister once she was old enough to understand it, and the opening lines are recited as the play is finished.
Anatomy of Gray is a lovely story that deals with a unique coming of age story and how we all come from loss, and love.Cast
Galen Gray……………..……………………………………………………………………….Camden Dubois
June Muldoon……………………………………………………………………………….……Katelynn Haynes
Rebekah Muldoon…………………………………………………………………………………..Brianna Cross
Pastor Phineas Wingfield…….…………………………………………..……………………..Kaleb Swarers
Tiny Wingfield…….……………………………………………………………..……………….. Marlee Bradley
Crutch Collins….………………………………………………………………..………………………Landon Luna
Belva Collins………………………………………………………………………..……………………Ohna Danna
Maggie……………….……………………………………………………………………..…………….Jada Colunga
Homer…………………….………………………………………………………………….…………. Brandon Vela
Townsperson………………………………….………………………………………..……… Carissa Slaughter
Townsperson……………………………………………………………………………….…………Dylan Garrett
Townsperson…………………….………………………………………………..………………..Zach Ocegeura
Townsperson…………………….………………………………………………………………..Moyleang Taing
Townsperson……………..…….……………………….……………………………………… Dyllan Branshaw
Townsperson….……………….…………………….…………………………….Cheyenne VonderHeyden
Setting: Gray, Indiana during the late 1800’s
Synopsis:
The play starts with a prologue, in which June Muldoon explains that the town of Gray, Indiana is a very boring place. She says that the play will chronicle her story, and the first chapter is started.
The play then shifts to the funeral service of Adam Muldoon, June’s late father and dedicated town farmer. After feeling immense grief at her father’s loss, and seeing her mother’s endless sorrow, June writes a letter to
God in which she wishes for her town to receive a doctor, so that “nobody will ever die again.”
Later, a massive storm, followed by a tornado, causes a man in a balloon to crash near the town. Rescued by June and the townspeople, he is revealed to be a doctor named Galen P. Gray, a fact which June is immensely excited by. The (mainly uneducated) citizens of Gray both look up to and misunderstand the doctor, creating many humorous situations. Such as how Gray has a strange aversion to blood, which is quite unhelpful in his profession.
He diagnoses the townspeople with various ailments, which they are ironically amazed by, and everything seems to be going well. In the meantime, Gray falls in love with Rebekah Muldoon, June’s mother, who is revealed to be pregnant with her late husband’s daughter while June feels the same way – for the doctor.
Gray begins to notice strange marks on certain townspeople, and soon those who are “marked” start becoming ill and even dying. Blaming the doctor for the appearance of the plague, Pastor Wingfield and a mob of other citizens attempt to chase Gray out of the town, but are stopped by June and the fact that the Pastor is suffering severely from kidney stones. Under the doctor’s instruction, June manages to operate on the Pastor and save his life, causing the townspeople to soften up to the doctor.
Meanwhile, Rebekah gives birth to her baby, who is not marked like Rebekah. The sickness is getting worse, and more and more people are becoming afflicted every day. In a move to save those who they can, the townspeople and the doctor send June and her little sister, as well as Homer, a farm boy who has had a crush on June, in a raft across the river to the outside world. As the few who are not “marked” float away on the raft, the doctor comes to the conclusion that the illness is likely caused by contaminated water, remarking that he always boils his water, June drinks his water, and Homer doesn’t drink water (preferring soda pop, a running gag in the play).
The play ends at its beginning with June explaining that she wrote down her history to tell to her little sister once she was old enough to understand it, and the opening lines are recited as the play is finished.
Anatomy of Gray is a lovely story that deals with a unique coming of age story and how we all come from loss, and love.Cast
Galen Gray……………..……………………………………………………………………….Camden Dubois
June Muldoon……………………………………………………………………………….……Katelynn Haynes
Rebekah Muldoon…………………………………………………………………………………..Brianna Cross
Pastor Phineas Wingfield…….…………………………………………..……………………..Kaleb Swarers
Tiny Wingfield…….……………………………………………………………..……………….. Marlee Bradley
Crutch Collins….………………………………………………………………..………………………Landon Luna
Belva Collins………………………………………………………………………..……………………Ohna Danna
Maggie……………….……………………………………………………………………..…………….Jada Colunga
Homer…………………….………………………………………………………………….…………. Brandon Vela
Townsperson………………………………….………………………………………..……… Carissa Slaughter
Townsperson……………………………………………………………………………….…………Dylan Garrett
Townsperson…………………….………………………………………………..………………..Zach Ocegeura
Townsperson…………………….………………………………………………………………..Moyleang Taing
Townsperson……………..…….……………………….……………………………………… Dyllan Branshaw
Townsperson….……………….…………………….…………………………….Cheyenne VonderHeyden
Crew
Director………………………………………………………….………………………………..Mrs. Stacy Webb
Assistant Director……………………………………………………………..……………Ms. Skylar Rowley
Student Assistant Director……………………………………………….…………………..……..Bree Cloud
Stage Manager…………….…………………………………………….………………………..Ashlynn Koons
Lights……………………….……….…………….………………………………………….…….Gabriel Howe
Sound…………..…………………………………………………………………………………………. Ravyn Pilley
Stage Crew….………………….………………………….…………………………………………Katelyn Miller
Alternates………………….Abby Murchison, Katelynn Conover, Allyson Shockley
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