The Powhatan High School is going to hold a performance of The Yellow Wallpaper on November 7.

   The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gillman. PHS Theater is presenting a two stage adaptation of this story The Yellow Wallpaper by Jeff Rack and The Yellow Wallpaper by Katherine Funkhouser. The Rack adaptation will also be performed on Saturday November 8 at the VHSL One-Act Competition at Huguenot High School.

   The Rack adaptation is a short, 25-minute piece with three actors: Jane (played by Karsen Riley), her husband John (played by Chase Jones), and his sister Jenny (played by Caroline Speight). It sticks very closely to the original story and preserves many of its actual lines.

   The Funkhouser adaptation is longer and adds more imaginative elements. It takes place not only in 1900 with Jane (Charlie Striker), John (Will Pollard), and Jennie (Madison King), but also imagines a future in which Jane’s child (Dorothy, played by Annabelle Felts) has grown up and returned to the old rental home with her daughter, Eleanor (Savannah Atkinson). Madison King plays Jennie as both young in the scenes from the original story, and as an elderly woman in the scenes that take place 40 years later. Kyle Burgmaster plays Eleanor’s cousin Frank, a medical student, Wall People are played by Payton Sanudo, Brynne Morelius, Lindsay Morris, A.J. Stoll, Sophia Angelico, entities that may or may not be real, but who appear and interact with others.

   Callie Orange stage manager for both shows with stage crew of Colson Byrne, Lizzie Caudle, Izzy Desmet, Gwen Dittman, Amara Durham, Grace Fitts, Holden Hutchison, Krysten Marshall, Nhadala Martin, Rhia Melton, and Kara Posey.

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