OHS/One Act Play: “Dark Road”

For the Olney High School One Act Play (OAP) competition this year, Olney chose the play, “Dark Road” written by Laura Lundgren Smith. Quoted from the playscript.com website, the play is about as follows, “ When Greta, a young girl living in Nazi Germany, reads that the nearby women’s concentration camp is hiring guards, she sees it as a chance to find her place in the world and provide for her sister Lise. But soon she learns the reality of her duties, and so too does she learn how to justify her crimes, heading further and further down the dark road laid by the Third Reich. Kind-hearted Lise is shocked at what her sister becomes, and though the two drift apart, their fates remain inextricably and dangerously linked. A powerful drama about the choices that allow evil to become ordinary.”

The Olney ISD OAP did great this year, winning Alternate to Region-- which is the 3rd place bi-district winner. The directors for the play this year were Cassie Johnson, Madison Ickert and Lori Cox. Pictured in the photo in no particular order are: Prisoner 1-Lisa Doan, Prisoner 2-Sarah Roach, Prisoner 3-Charlee Bailey, Prisoner 4- Mallory Jeske, Observer-Richard Walp, Greta-Adelade Edgington, Guard- Hector Hernandez, Daimler- Fatima Marquez, Lise- Brieanna Hagle, Overseer- Lara Hilden, Marge- Natalie Delvillar, Ingrid- Ari Livingston, Doctor- William Bernhardt, Alternate- Gary Turner, Stage Manager- Allie Barrington, Lights- Allison House and Sound- Ellie Hinson. Photo by Will Sadler