Theatre Arts

Theatre Arts provide a window into the lives of other people and other times; and as we learn about these characters who played out their parts in history or in a playwright’s imagination, we learn what it means to be human, and what it means to make hard choices, and these lessons teach us compassion. Students have many opportunities to participate in theatre arts. Northfielders have acted as citizens of the Old West for Cowtown Museum’s Education Day; they have been soldiers and citizens in Civil War battle reenactments; they have performed monologues, poetry, and comic sketches for the Northfield Christmas Festival of Lessons and Carols show; they have presented historical figures through scenes and monologues as part of the National History Day competition, and they have taken part in the annual Spring Play, directed by Garrett Jeter. Previous plays have included A Tale of Two Cities, The Butler Did It, and Antigone.

Garrett Jeter

Mr. Jeter directs the annual Spring Play, teaches Latin, and researches grant opportunities for Northfield.

“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.”
            —William Shakespeare