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Best-seller Thirteen Reasons Why opens as original play
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| Cara Lamusga and Oguzhan Ucak rehearse a scene from Thirteen Reasons Why, which opens this week. |
 Thirteen Reasons Why, author Jay Asher's 2007 young adult novel that has spent 51 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List, opens on the ACHS stage this week in the form of an original play. Asher will be on hand to meet with students all day on Friday before attending the evening performance.
The story follows high school student Clay Jensen (Dimitri Pylarinos) as he listens to a series of recordings sent to him by his classmate Hannah (Cara Lamusga), who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's messages take him on a journey through the people and events she describes.
Teachers Wanda Teddy and Audrey Nagel worked to write the script last summer along with a group of students. The fine arts department plans to use the play as its entry in the Illinois High School Theatre Festival to be held in January. It hopes that this and future educational theater pieces will get audience members talking about the important issues the characters confront.
Freshman advisory classes saw the play on Wednesday, while the curtain goes up for the public starting on Thursday and continuing through Saturday at 7 p.m. each evening. Admission is $5 for students and $7 for the public.
Asher will meet with drama and creative writing students, as well as making himself available before and after the Friday performance. Copies of the book are on sale for $15, and additional literature will be available in the auditorium after each performance. |
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