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CMS One Act Play Public Performance set for December 8th

Center Middle School is set to perform their One Act Play on Monday,
December 8th at 2:30 PM n the middle school auditorium. they will be
performing *A Toby Show* by Aurand Harris.

"*A Toby Show* is a pastiche of a type of entertainment popular in a
colorful era in American drama that began in the early years of the
twentieth century and began a precipitous decline after the Great
Depression.  Before the development of radio, talking pictures, and
television, troupes of traveling actors brought live entertainment into
rural areas of the country - especially the mid-west and South.

Toby was a red-headed, freckle-faced country comedian, a country bumpkin
who outsmarted the city slicker.  Just as Harlequin in European drama
became the stellar attraction Commedia dell'arte's company of stock
characters, Toby developed into the chief attraction of the rural Toby
troupes.  The plays they presented may have utilized familiar plots and
drawn their stock characters in poster colors, but they entrtained
unsophisticated audiences and in many ways approximated America's version
of the Commedia dell'arte.  *A Toby Show *is a re-creation of a classic
form, no extinct, in a period of early American theatre."

They invite the community to attend their final performance before they
take the play to competition.

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