Seventh and Eighth graders will perform two one-act plays on Friday, November 17th at 4:00pm and 7:00pm in the Martin Theatre. Grand Tenement by Tom Eyen, Directed by Kevin Gallagher, and Let's Be Devils by Nevil Malin, Directed by Mariah Sanford-White, will be performed by the students for Dalton families and friends. You are invited to attend!

Grand Tenement is an absurdist play that intersects the worlds of television broadcasting, politics and urban America in the 1960s.  The play is a commentary on the individual alienation within the airwaves' community and America at-large.  It is, in the playwright's own words, "the greatest play ever written for thirteen people on August 14, 1967." Let's Be Devils is a play within a play about the butterfly effects of small actions. Guided by one central character, The Tempter, the band of actors portrays a suburban town going about its day. The Tempter manipulates their actions to suit his own agenda, letting each character affect the next until they have come full-circle back to the original character. Originally performed in England in the 1960s, this play is a self-conscious look at how our actions and relationships affect the world around us, and how even the smallest change in demeanor can have grave consequences.