JHS play this weekend

The Jamestown High School drama department will present its fall production, “Turn Back The Clock,” by Marrijane Hayes and Joseph Hayes, at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Jamestown High School theater. The three-act comedy is based on the concept that all generations are more or less alike after all.

In the brief prologue to the play the audience meets a set of parents doing what parents of all generations have done, waiting up for their late children. Between periods of being worried and concerned they switch to a growing anger. The topic turns to the universal theme of the “irresponsibility” of today’s children.

Then the clock is turned back and the audience meets the couple as high school seniors in 1928 and gets a glimpse into those not so dead days in which parents and children behaved in almost the same way as they behave today. As audience members see their lives unfold and experience the ups and downs of their lives in 1928 they see that in many ways it is not different from people’s lives in 2012. Parents struggle with their children growing up, worrying about the choices they are making with their lives, and struggle to hold on to some control over their family.

As the play progresses with its twists and turns of ordinary family life in the late 1920s through the humor of every day it’s seen that in many ways things have not changed all that much.

Thomas Mortenson, Hunter Carpenter, Declan O’Higgins, Jacob Brownell, Julia Bredenbach and Michele Simonetti carry the masculine parts while Jana Lynch, Morgan Baumgartner, Kelsey Becker, Libby Druse, Kylie Schultz, Sierra Gordon, Maxine Mjoen, Mava Sierraalta and Sam Samek provide the feminine aspect of the play. Other students will be joining them in the party scene.

Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for students. James-town High School season passes are also accepted.

Tags: diversions, theater