Dinner, Drama & Dating Disasters: WPHS “Dinner Theater Date Night”
West Prairie Press: Student stories. School news. All West Prairie The West Prairie Drama Club will perform 'Avoiding the Pitfalls of High School Dating' at 6:30 p.m., Feb. 20-21 at West Prairie Junior-Senior High School.
A dinner, featuring pasta, salad, garlic bread and dessert prepared by School Food Director Mandy Palmer, will be served during the performance.
Tickets, $20/person, are available by calling Lisa Fentem at (309) 456-3750 or emailing fenteml@wp103. org. Babysitting will also be available on site at no charge.
High school is a time of awkwardness and self-discovery, filled with both the thrill and terror of early relationships. 'Avoiding the Pitfalls of High School Dating' captures the roller coaster of teenage romance through humor and heart. The oneact comedy is structured as a mock seminar led by two self-proclaimed dating 'experts' who present a set of 'never-fail' rules for relationship success. Their system is put to the test as two unlikely students demonstrate the rules through a series of awkward and often humiliating speed dates.
'The play is mainly for anyone who remembers their high school years or for anyone currently navigating high school,' said senior Hailie Hendrix, who has been involved in drama club during her four years of high school.
The production, spearheaded by drama club co-sponsors and English teachers Meredith Gravina and Connor Sullivan, takes a lighthearted but honest look at the challenges of relationships and the pressures that often come with them. It does not sugarcoat the realities of dating, as characters stumble through first dates and navigate breakups that ultimately teach valuable lessons.
'Avoiding the Pitfalls of High School Dating is more than just something to make you laugh,' Hendrix added.
'It offers important insights into boundaries, healthy relationships and self-respect.'
