KP District Performing Arts Schedule

             A Classic Holiday Favourite!          

Jean Shepherd's

A Christmas Story

adapted by Philip Grecian

directed by Joseph Ferreira

Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story, © 1983 Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; and on the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd.

Presented by special arrangement with 

The Dramatic Publishing Co., Woodstock, IL

Friday, December 11^th  & Saturday, December 12^th, 2009

Spring, 2010

The Diary of Anne Frank

by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett

directed by S. Rivka Rocchio

Presented by special arrangement with 

Dramatists Play Service, New York City, NY

Friday, May 7^th & Saturday, May 8^th, 2010

Our Story

KP Drama produces and performs two to three plays each year. These include an annual holiday production each December, a Spring production in May, and an occasional February senior-directed show. As of Autumn, 2007 our new home is King Philip Regional High School's brand new King Philip Theatre, where more than fifty students both on stage and behind the scenes work for months to bring audiences such terrific holiday shows as A Christmas Story, favorite comedies including You Can't Take It With You , immortal Shakespearian theatre including Much Ado About Nothing, powerful dramas such as Inherit the Wind, and entertaining musicals like Anything Goes!  

In addition to our fine performers, more than twenty superior technical theatre students are members of the Grady Auditorium Production Staff (GAPS). These students, in co-operation with the technical theatre program at Rhode Island College and numerous alumni volunteers, design sets and build scenery for each show, create and implement lighting and audio designs, operate the theatre lighting and sound systems, and attend to all aspects of theatre operations in both the KPMS Auditorium and KPRHS Theatre for town meetings, assemblies and other public events throughout the school year.

Persons interested in supporting these performing arts programs financially through donation and/or advertising or through volunteering should contact Joseph Ferreira at ferreiraj@kingphilip.org for further information. You may also call us at (508) 384-1000, Ext. 206 Monday through Friday between 9 AM and 3 PM or FAX us at (508) 384-1018. Thank you for visiting and we hope to see YOU at our next show!

Joseph Ferreira, Co-Director

S. Rivka Rocchio, Co-Director

Missy Taddeo, Production Stage Manager,

Designer & Technical Director  

Fall, 1998 - It's A Wonderful Life

Fall, 1999 - Miracle on 34^th Street

Fall, 2000 - A Christmas Story

Fall, 2001 - Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus

Fall, 2002 - A Christmas Carol

Fall, 2003 - It's A Wonderful Life

Fall, 2004 - A Christmas Story

Fall, 2005 - Families at Holidaytime

Fall, 2006 - Miracle on 34^th Street

Fall, 2007 - A Christmas Carol

Fall, 2008 - It's A Wonderful Life

Fall, 2009 - A Christmas Story

Spring, 1999 - The Sting

Spring, 2000 - Inherit the Wind

Spring, 2001 - Anything Goes! (William Jones)

Spring, 2002 - Much Ado About Nothing (Nicole Slagle)

Spring, 2003 - Twelve Angry Men/Twelve Angry Women

Spring, 2004 - The Philadelphia Story

Spring, 2005 - The Curious Savage (Vienna Folliard)

Spring, 2006 - You Can't Take It With You

Spring, 2007 - It Was A Dark & Stormy Night

Spring, 2008 - Mr. Hobbs Vacation

Spring, 2009 - The Disappearance of Daniel Hand (Rivka Rocchio)

Spring, 2010 - The Diary of Anne Frank (Rivka Rocchio)

March, 2000 - Arsenic & Old Lace

(Timothy Mele & Jesse M^cKenzie)

February, 2002 - The Turn of the Screw

(Missy Taddeo & Tom Gemelli)

February, 2003 - Play It Again, Sam

(Harley Holmes)

February, 2004 - The Dinner Party

(Ayaan Agane & Brittany Burke)

February, 2005 - The Mousetrap

(Caitlin M^cLaughlin)

February, 2008 - Don't Dress for Dinner

(Katie Mikalayunas)

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