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More than 60 Clarion-Goldfield-Dows High School students spent March 2019 rehearsing in the darkened high school gym for the spring play, “The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza” by Don Zolidis.
The title may not be familiar, but the characters are. Two narrators compete to cover all of Greek mythology in one show, with audience participation and plenty of chaos. Pandora’s box, Jason and the Argonauts and Hercules share the stage with oddities like Linus and Argus. It ends with a musical version of the Iliad, complete with a battle of little green army men.
Zolidis plays are popular with high school directors because they can handle big casts, which is how a school C-G-D’s size gets 60-plus kids on stage.
Jill Ostrander writes for Clarion News Online.