Temple High School's 2022 entry in the annual UIL One-Act Play Contest is Men on Boats by Jacklyn Backhaus. The second round of the contest (bi-district) will be Thursday, March 24 at Temple High School. The first school performs at 1 p.m. and the shows run back-to-back. There is no charge for admission, but the audience must enter or exit only between shows,
PERFORMANCE ORDER (Times are estimates only. Plays run back-to-back)
1 p.m. Waco HS — The Revolutionists
2 p.m. Temple HS — Men on Boats
3 p.m. Killeen Harker Heights HS — The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
4 p.m. Midway HS — Peter and the Starcatcher
5 p.m. Waxahachie HS — A Monster Calls
6 p.m. Bryan HS — A Midsummer Night's Dream
Adjudicators will be Patty MacMullen, Linda Major and Charlie Hukill. Amy Medina is serving as contest manager. Three of the six schools will advance to the Area Contest on Saturday, April 2, at Midway ISD Performing Arts Center.
Temple's play features an all-female cast. In 1869, ten explorers set off to chart the Green and Colorado Rivers, under the guidance of John Wesley Powell, a Civil War Veteran and personal friend of President Grant. This is a government-sanctioned journey following in the footsteps of the deserters, lone adventurers, and countless indigenous people who have previously braved the wild rapids leading through Colorado, Utah and New Mexico, and through the most dangerous waterway of all — the Grand Canyon.
A complete list of the cast and production crew members can be found on the Information Page for this production.
Thespian Troupe #1966
Temple High School
Theatre Arts Department
415 South 31st Street
Temple, TX 76504
Director
Natasha Tolleson
Office 254-215-7278
natasha.tolleson@tisd.org
Theatre Instructor,
Lights & Sound
Kayla Stewart
kayla.stewart@tisd.org
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Temple's UIL One-Act Play Team has been a District Champion for 30 years in a row (as of March 2022). No other UIL team at Temple High holds such a record.
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