Comedy tonight!

Posted Wednesday, January 13, 2016 1:33 pm

On Jan. 9, South Side High School students staged a series of student-directed one-act comedies for their I.B. Theater class. Above, in “Check, Please,” Connor Coniglio was taken aback when his blind date, played by Lane McKenna, turned out to be an overzealous Chicago Bears fan. Julia Baxley played the waitress. (Theresa Press/Herald)

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Connor Coniglio is surprised when his date, Isabel Logios, pulls a knife on him during a blind date in “Check, Please.”

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Max LoSardo, seated, as Hamlet, listens to Horatio, played by Colette Brancaccio, and The King, played by Nadia Tavella.

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Nadia Tavella, left, and senior Max LoSardo play the King and Hamlet in “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).”

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Nathanaah Prophete, center, played a very anxious, very pregnant woman trapped on an elevator with an assortment of characters, such as an instructor, played by Emma Vecchione, left, and a clown, played by Agatha O’Connell.

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Amanda Ventura played a girl on a series of blind dates in the play “Check, Please.” Her overdramatic date was played by Jacob DeVito.

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Last week, students in South Side High School’s IB Theater program put on four student-directed plays and a dance revue.

The shows were part of the requirements that students need to complete in order to pass the class. They had to select plays in a uniform program to present, and the students chose to perform and direct four one-act comedies.

Students performed “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” “A Complete History of America (Abridged),” “Check, Please,” and “The Absolute Most Clichéd Elevator Play in the History of the Entire Universe.”

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