LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The Lima Senior Drama Club teams up with Avante Garage Theatre Company for "Project Rainbow."
"Project Rainbow" is a play that will take its audience into another dimension that is facing some of the same issues currently happening in our world. The play was written in the early nineties by Micheal Bousin, who happens to be directing the production alongside Joe Correll. The students acting in the play have been rehearsing tirelessly as they say this performance is a big opportunity to remind their audience how their actions are affecting their future.
"Here we are 30 plus years later, and not only do we still have the same problems, but they're even more exacerbated in some respects. So, that's why I felt like this play is still very timely, and it's a message out of the mouths of babes. Young people are instructing our adult audience because they care. It's their future that we're talking about, so, they care a great deal about these issues," stated Micheal Bouson, co-owner of the Ohio Theatre and artistic director for Avante Garage Theatre Company.
The performance of "Project Rainbow" will be on Tuesday, April 25th, at 7:00 p.m. in Lima Senior High School's auditorium.
Press Release from Lima City Schools: The culmination of a Lima Senior theater residency with The Avante Garage Theatre Company with come to the stage at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 25.
“Project Rainbow” will be performed by Lima Senior theater students who have been working with Michael Bouson and Joe Correll, who own the theatre company and The Ohio Theatre.
The Avante Garage Theatre Company was founded as an Improv/Sketch Comedy Troupe in 1984. “Project Rainbow” was written by Bouson.
“Project Rainbow” was originally conceived for the stage. It received its World Premiere at The Avante Garage Repertory Theatre Company in Nashville, TN in 1993. At that time it was produced with young actors for an adult audience as the culmination of an ‘Acting for Young Persons Multi-week Workshop.’
Over the years, the text has been revised to reflect changing socio-political climates but its intent remains the same: “out of the mouths of babes comes wisdom for the ages.”
In 2001, the script was adapted into a Children’s Book meant to be read out loud by the entire family or a group of friends or classmates. The book was illustrated by Cesar A. Rodriguez to illuminate the story and to encourage the readers to act out the parts as they would if performing in a play.
