Westfield’s upper-level theatre students traveled to Richmond Nov. 3-5 to participate in the annual Virginia Theatre Association (VTA) Conference to take workshops and view performances by other school’s theatre departments. Shows ran the gamut from serious dramas to light-hearted comedies. For the second year, Westfield students joined the performers with a showcase piece “Women of Wasserstein” a compilation of five separate one-acts written by Wendy Wasserstein and directed by Scott D. Pafumi. The vignettes feature an epic Greek tragedy, a workout monologue, a father-daughter scene, and a Russian marriage. All are told throughout snippets from a modern love story.
At the VTA conference, students also attended acting and technical workshops taught by professors from Virginia colleges, took in a night of improvisation, and auditioned for many theatre programs at colleges from across the Commonwealth. On the final day of the conference, awards were given out for excellence in acting and technicality of the plays at an awards banquet.
Westfield students found the VTA Conference a great way to connect to colleges, establish contacts, and become immersed in an environment of students and educators who truly appreciate high school theatre.