| CAESAR RODNEY in SCOTLAND 1997 In the Delaware State Play Festival of 1995, Caesar Rodney was awarded first prize for its presentation of Tennessee Williams' Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen starring Rebecca Morris and Brian Corey. For that honor, we were nominated, along with nearly 200 other top drama programs from throughout the country, to the American High School Theatre Festival, a part of the Fringe Festival at the Edinburgh International Festival. After an exhaustive review process, we were chosen to be one of twenty-four schools to travel to Scotland - one of only two from the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware region. With considerable fundraising and a wealth of community support, twenty-four student actors and technicians - along with six chaperones - flew from Philadelphia to London in the summer of '97 for two days of sightseeing and a Westend show, Les Miserables. Then we journeyed by train up the North Sea coast to Edinburgh for a ten-day adventure, including a trip to the "first three toes" of the Highlands, tours of Holyrood Palace and Scone Castle, the Military Tattoo at Edinburgh Castle, and much, much more. While there, we presented four performances of The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The show was outstanding, the trip was a huge success, and everyone had a marvelous time. |
| The Cast Henry David Thoreau................................Darrell Louder Ralph Waldo Emerson..............................Ryan Fransisco Lydia Emerson..........................................Lynette Morris Bailey.........................................................Aaron Crouch John Thoreau........................................Thom Canalichio Ellen....................................................Lorraine Steinhoff Deacon Ball................................................Derek Benham Sam Staples............................................Robert Burnham Edward Emerson........................................Casey Jaywork Williams..................................................Nikhil Nadkarny Mother...........................................................Laini Welde Farmer........................................................Peter LaVenia Woman..................................................Marcy Patterson Townspeople, Soldiers, &.....................Stephanie Blevins Spirits Amber Heintz Jessica Machen Jennifer Maczynski Kelly Mayberry Aubrey Perrington Tito Caro-Caban Voice of Lincoln.................................................Eric Ball |
| If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away. - Henry David Thoreau |
| The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail as performed in the Church Hill Theater, Edinburgh, Scotland during the Fringe Festival, August 1997 |
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