Following a winter production of the risque musical Chicago, Marshall Theatre is performing the children’s fairy-tale medley Wolftales and senior Rayn Epremian’s The Dogs Are Coming, at the end of January. Both plays are one-acts.
The Dogs Are Coming was performed at the Virginia High School League Liberty Districts, which was hosted at Marshall, where it placed fourth. Junior James Lex was nominated for the Best Actor award and senior Hannah Rak was nominated for Best Actress.
“Rayn did an amazing job,” senior Yara Alemi, director of The Dogs Are Coming, said of the student-written show. “Everyone has worked very hard.”
Sophomore Sarah Chapin, who plays a pig in Wolftales, said that the theatre department “wanted to do a children’s show because [they] did such a racy musical.”
“It’s an adorable show,” Chapin said. “I am having fun.”
The two shows will be performed together, with Wolftales acting as the first act and The Dogs Are Coming as the second on Thursday and Friday at seven p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at two.
Sophomore Garrett Wood, who is involved with the lighting for Wolftales, said that the children’s one-act was chosen because Peter Pan, last year’s fall musical, “was very successful.”
“I think that this one should be successful as well,” he said.
Alemi said that her work with The Dogs Are Coming has been mostly “tweaking” what the cast has done.