Dear Harvey et el

Noa's freshman year at Burke, they were in one fall play, Everybody. Sophomore year there were two fall plays, John Proctor is the Villain (Noa was in the chorus) and Abigail/1702 (which they were not in). 

Burke put on four plays, all focused on social justice, this fall: Dear Harvey (about the legacy of the first openly gay man elected to a major public office in the U.S., with Noa playing Anne Kronenberg, Harvey Milk's campaign manager); #matter (about two former high school classmates, reconnecting on facebook to debate race, with Noa playing Cole, who probably should spend less time on facebook); 8 (about the lawsuit to overturn Proposition 8 which outlawed same-sex marriage in California with Noa playing Sandy Stier, one of the plaintiffs); and All Convenience (the only play Noa wasn't in, that was a short about protecting things that don't need protection simply because they're easier to deal with while other stuff burns).

It was a moving and thought-provoking production which all the more impressive given the amount of characters and dialogue the student-actors had to keep straight. Everyone did an amazing job, though we will note that Noa had the longest monologue of anyone, as Anne Kronenberg, and nailed it.

And while we're all a little relieved that Noa gets a break from rehearsals (though auditions for the spring musical are next week). I'm a little terrified that by my math this means they'll be doing eight plays Noa's senior year...

(To see the Burke official pictures for all the plays, click here.)