Middle School Drama Club will present, “The Day the Internet Died” March 8

The WYO PLAY Middle School Drama Club will present “The Day the Internet Died” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 8, at the WYO Performing Arts and Education Center. 

The Middle School Drama Club is an outreach program in collaboration with Sheridan County School District 1 and WYO Play, an education initiative of the Wyoming Performing Arts and Education Center. The club engages students at Tongue River and Big Horn Middle Schools. These talented students simultaneously devise an original short play and come together to perform over the course of the six-week program. Students learn to share the stage, celebrate themselves and each other while developing key storytelling and performance skills.

Executive director of the WYO Performing Arts and Education Center, Erin Butler, stopped by Sheridan Media’s Public Pulse, praising the work by the students and Grace Cannon-Wallace who only recently came together after rehearsing in different locations.   

E. Butler 

The play, by Ian McWethy and Jason Pizzarello, tells the story of the town of Bloomington, where on a sunny day a devastating occurrence happens. The internet goes down and remains down for a week. The play asks the questions in a world so dependent on the internet for shopping, mailing and posting pictures of cute babies, how will society function? According to the play, not well.

“The Day the Internet Died” explores how inept society is when dating, researching and at basic human interactions when people don’t have a screen to guide them.

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