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Watch Students Explore Human Themes in Front

WRHS Drama Tuesday, October 11 to Thursday, October 13, 6:00 p.m.

Friday, October 14, 5:00 p.m.

Saturday, October 15, 1:00 p.m.

Wood River Performing Arts Theater, Community Campus


Winner of the 1996 Kennedy Center/Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award, Front is set in England during the Blitz.  A number of struggling individuals and families come to terms with war and the horrors and tragedies it provides. This includes Judith, a proud matriarch, who works in a factory that makes bomb detonators, her missing husband, Frank, and their two children, Sheila and John, who are forced to grow up much too quickly. A number of other war-torn individuals are also profiled, each butting heads with the raging war.  A poignant account of female perseverance, Front is appropriate for all mature audiences.

Listen to the WRHS Drama's interview with KECH radio here.