If you missed their performance of Dolls Friday and Saturday night, May 4th and 5th, in the Santa Paula High School Auditorium, then you missed a very fine performance indeed. Not only is it a great demonstration of what hard work, dedication and concern about a vital issue can accomplish, it is also a wonderful showcase of the multi-talented group of young actors and actresses SPHS is blessed with. They designed and built this set without aid of the funding they deserve. Although the set itself enhanced the play because it was an attention-getter and the characters were hilarious, the acting alone would have won my attention and my heart even if they had been on an empty stage. I congratulate each and every actor and actress on a spectacular performance.
Dolls is a well-blended mixture of humor, compassion and thought provoking information.
Every parent of a teen or preteen son or daughter should see Dolls with their child or children as a means of opening the doors of communication about an issue that doesn t know or care about a generation gap. It is well worth the time and money invested in seeing it. It is probably very obvious that I am not a professional theater critic. Hopefully this group will have other opportunities to perform this play again and again. Skate Park in Veterans Park Skateboarding is the biggest youth sports need in our community.