The Coalmont Elementary School Stage will become a 1931 setting, as a group of the school’s students will bring to life a story penned by beloved local author May Justus.
At 7 p.m., Saturday, April 27, and 4 p.m., Sunday, April 28, the group will perform “The Other Side of the Mountain.”
The theater project’s director, Catalina Jordan Alvarez, chose and adapted Justus’s book “The Other Side of the Mountain,” with copyright permission granted by the University of Tennessee.
This is a Grundy Area Creative Endeavors (GrACE) pilot project, made possible by the Community Fund for the South Cumberland Plateau.
The students playing all the roles are fourth- and fifth-graders Bailey Brown, Katie Brown, Brittany Cunningham, Will Jackson, Charlee Meeks, Harley Nunley, Ally Ramsey, Haley Sanders, Christopher Smallwood and Savannah Smith. McKinley Thomas, Caitlyn Layne and Emily Olivia Rhea have joined the production crew as backstage and prop managers.
Production assistance includes sound design by Linda Heck and Addison Willis; set design by Ruth Isabel Guerra; lighting design by Dan Pate; and production facilitation by Linda Heck.
This seed project and the April performances are dedicated to the memory of Dorothy “Dot” Minkler, who was a student of May Justus, a founding member of the Grundy Area Arts Council and an inspiration to many who hold the Plateau community dear.
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