The cinematic premiere of the original North Penn High School (NPHS) Theatre and Thespians Troupe 5464 show, Breathing Through Covid, will take to the screen at the Water Tower Cinema on Friday, March 26 at 7 p.m. with a cast and crew talk-back session after the premiere.
Breathing Through Covid will be shown each evening at 7 p.m. through April 1 at Water Tower Cinema, 750 Montgomery Glen Drive, Lansdale, PA 19446. Tickets are available through Water Tower Cinema’s website, or on-site at the door with 50% of the ticket sale proceeds directly benefiting the NPHS Theatre program.
A collection of impressions, experiences and reflections on 2020 during the time of COVID-19, Breathing through Covid began as brainstorming sessions in July 2020 with NPHS students and the theatre staff. The casts met virtually once a week and through discussions, dramaturgy, improvisation, breakout writing sessions, inspiration and frequently shared individual work, discovered how each topic wanted to "breathe" in form, content and performance. While a few pieces were recorded in socially distanced sessions outdoors at NPHS, the rest were recorded by the students themselves in bedrooms, living rooms and backyards - just as we have lived the past months.
“Our experiences and reflections may differ from yours,” said NPHS Director Andrea Lee Roney. “This is not a show of judgment or persuasion. It is an effort to present life as we experienced over the past 10 months. It is an attempt to produce theatre as Shakespeare advises in Hamlet: ‘[for] the purpose of playing [presenting theatre], whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.’ This is our mirror.”
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