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CHS Senior Class Play, “ZAP”
March 9, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
Get ready for a little of this and a little of that as the Chillicothe High School Theater Department presents (seven plays in one) Paul Fleishman’s Zap, a hilarious farce that shows what might happen if live-theater and the channel-surfing of television collided. In the play, a theater company decides to present seven plays all at the same time while giving the audience the opportunity to switch through them whenever they get bored or when they want to see what is happening in another play. The result is a fast-paced and breathless romp through some of the many tropes and genres that theater has to offer. There’s an Agatha Christie-esque English Mystery, a Neil Simon-esque comedy, a Performance Art Monologue, an Avant-Garde play rather like Samuel Beckett’s best work, a Russian Play in the vein of Anton Chekhov, a Southern Play that emulates Tennessee Williams, and Shakespeare’s Richard III. The plays quickly come and go as the audience changes its mind, and the result is insane hilarity as the actors try to keep up.