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rine Kiley, the children perform a series of dances dramatizing scenes of new shoes, steaks and chops, stormy weather, a hope for peace and others.
The project included students from both Rappahannock Elementary and Rappahannock High School: Kenny Giles, Noah Waggener, Matt Kiger, Elise Foster, Wesley Welk, Sarah Gentry, Jack Compton, Alice Gentry, Lauren Sharp, Eliza and Elie Coon, Joshua Swatman, Kelly and Sally Lawler, Amy Longyear, Ariele Foster, Sarah Bartlett, Pam Peyton, Linda Jenkins, Brie Calendrella and Tai Mullan. The broad range of ages, Mrs. Marshall said, gave students a chance to “do something together.”
“The stores were not always from grandparents or even their own family,” playwright Ms. Kiley said, adding the story later acts as an “adoption process for the kids as their grandparents or elders becomes a part of their family through the story.”
Through stories such as these, children learn to accept and understand new aspects of life, aspects often less dramatic in today’s life where change is common and media — like newspaper, television and radio — able to capture its occurance. New feelings are given perspective — through death, through distance, through time.
Emotion is dramatized — and felt — by each child participating.
“The children were told the story of Leelo Foster’s sister, who was killed by the Nazis,” Mrs. Marshall said in explanation. They were so touched by the story they cried. “The next day there were asked to repeat the story. They remembered the entire story,” she said, adding “not a detail was missed.”
The lesson from each story is shared as children give their message in the final scene, entitlted “And everywhere there was peace” — lessons of learned love, compassion, understanding and heritage. That scene mixes the hopes of both the grandparents and the children, providing different perspectives of the expectations of two generations.
The play, Mrs. Marshall said, will also be performed for the students at RCES next Thursday, May 3 and at RCHS on Friday, May 4. Later in the month, the troupe will travel to Warrenton to present the production at Fauquier High School, she added.
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