Theatrics 101: January 2011

Monday, January 3, 2011

BPP MINI PLAY WINNERS!

Fm. Chad Rabivoniwitz--This year’s MiniPlay contest brought in a gigantic number of submissions from across Bloomington. By gigantic we mean that there are stacks and stacks of student-written plays here but we’ve been so busy reading that we haven’t had time to count out an exact number! But thankfully, it was a huge success and the talent from the submitted scripts was incredible.

So without further ado, here are the winners of BPP’s MiniPlay Contest:

HIGH SCHOOL
1st Place ($50 Prize) Airport Security Shenanigans by Elizabeth Anderson, Bloomington South, Ms. Rademacher
2nd Place – You Really Thrill Me, Really by Hazel James, Home School
3rd Place – Goats for Goats by Devin May, Bloomington South, Ms. Rademacher

Congratulations to all of the winners!!!

The Bard

In medieval Gaelic and British culture (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, Brittany and Cornwall) a bard was a professional poet, employed by a patron, such as a monarch or nobleman, to commemorate the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.

Originally a specific class of poet, contrasting with another class known as fili in Ireland and Highland Scotland, the term "bard", with the decline of living bardic tradition in the modern period, acquired generic meanings of an epic author/singer/narrator, comparable with the terms in other cultures: minstrel, skald/scop, rhapsode, udgatar, griot, ashik) or any poets, especially famous ones. For example, William Shakespeare is known as The Bard.^[1]