Performances: March 8 & 9 2010 at 7:00 pm
Tickets: $8 at the door
Location: Rhinos All Ages Music Club at 331 South Washington

26th Annual Mini Play Festival

Announcing performances of the 26th annual Mini Play Festival, the product of an eight-week camp for students grades 3rd through high school. Campers act in and direct the winning Mini Plays from the BPP's Mini Play Contest, transforming them into captivating performances for the Mini Play Festival.

Winners for the 26th annual Mini Play Contest were revealed in January. Elementary and middle school students wrote on the theme of "Engaging the Environment". They spun tales that included coal mining mountain top removal, endangered sea turtles, sentient toxic sludge monsters, and two children on a quest to save their world from an eternity of dead trees and scorched earth. High school students were not required to write on a theme. Their plays ranged from two parents who just wish their kids would go to sleep, a tale of a woman finding her place in the antebellum south even if it's in men's clothing, and a sweet tale of a painter who paints with astonishing strokes of reality.
The BPP received nearly 250 play submissions to the contest, out of which only nine were selected to be produced for the Mini Play Festival performances.

The plays are:

Elementary School Division

First Place: The Flowering Flute by Ping Showalter, 5th grade, University Elementary School, Whitney Coake, teacher
Second Place: Tomorrow Will be Better by Emma Cannon, 5th grade, University Elementary School, Whitney Coake, teacher
Third Place: The Patch by Emilie Elizabeth Goswami, 4th grade, University Elementary School, Liesel Loudermilk, teacher

Middle School Division

First Place: Sea Turtles in a Dilemma by Savannah Lee, 8th grade, Batchelor Middle School, Brenda Polley, teacher
Second Place: Up in Smoke by Charlotte Wager Miller, 6th grade, University Elementary School, Erin Cerwinski, teacher
Third Place: Toxic Karma by Brynn Parkinson, 8th grade, Batchelor Middle School, Brenda Polley, teacher

High School Division

First Place: Ahh, Parenthood by Elizabeth Anderson, 9th grade, Bloomington South High School, teacher, Catherine Rademacher
Second Place: The Painter by Mary Rose Choi, 11th grade, Bloomington South High School, teacher, Catherine Rademacher
Third Place: Love at the Wrong Time by Nicole Cox, 9th grade, Bloomington South High School, teacher, Catherine Rademacher

The Mini Play Festival performances take place at Rhinos All Ages Music Club, 331 South Washington, March 8 and 9, 2010 at 7:00 pm. Tickets are $8 available at the door the night of the show.