S.T.A.G.E. Presents ‘Rumors’ This Weekend

By Alicia Pollard, staff reporter

Photo by Hannah Driscoll, staff photographer.                                                                                                                     The S.T.A.G.E. actors from the Neil Simon comedy "Rumors." From left to right

“Rumors,” the winter play with performances this weekend by students at Sturgis Charter Public School, will feature a number of technical improvements for the school’s theater program, which is known as S.T.A.G.E. (Sturgis Theater Arts Guild of Entertainers).

In “Rumors,” a comedy by Neil Simon, the action revolves around a gunshot in the home of a couple who is having their 10th wedding anniversary party. The first guests to arrive find their hostess missing and their host with a gunshot wound in his ear. The comedy mainly involves the awkward situation of the first guests trying to keep the rest of the party from finding out about the mystery, discovering what really happened, and keeping the situation from becoming a police investigation.

“Neil Simon writes really great comedies with really eccentric characters…it’s a good opportunity for the Sturgis actors to be creative in their characterization,” said Anna Botsford, the director for STAGE, who is a theater teacher at both Sturgis East and West campuses.