The DRAMA CLUB presents

The DRAMA CLUB presents

AND

coming in JANUARY to SLHS

NEWS FLASH:

Newark Memorial High School

will be presenting the play

"The Laramie Project" on November 8,9 and 15,16.

Anti-gay religious fanatics led by the

notorious and ridiculous hate-monger

Rev. Fred Phelps are protesting

this play because they fear its powerful

statement against bigots and gay-haters.

SLHS will also present "The Laramie Project"

in spring, 2003. We hope you will join the SLHS

Drama Club in attending the Newark production

and supporting their courage in standing up

against hate and bigotry.

The Drama Club thanks the audiences of

"FUDDY MEERS"

for making it one of our

most successful productions ever !

Make your plans now to join us for

our newly announced

2002 -2003 Season

featuring

WONDER of the WORLD

and

theLaramieproject

The DRAMA CLUB

at San Leandro High School has presented seventeen years of outstanding plays and musicals directed by Terry Minton and starring hundreds of gifted actors.

In these pages you will find our club's history, our news and our future.

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FUDDY MEERS: story and cast

pictured above: FUDDY MEERS

About The DRAMA CLUB:

Club President: Nick Lopez 2001-2002

A suburb of Oakland and San Francisco,

SAN LEANDRO boasts the most culturally diverse

high school community in the greater Bay Area.

The DRAMA CLUB at San Leandro High School

has taken a leading role in affirming that diversity.

It is theater's responsibility to react to the changes

in the world around us and to examine social issues

relevant to the lives and futures of our students.

The policy of our drama program has

always been to present theater that

steps beyond the traditional trite and

irrelevant style of most "high school"

drama,and to produce truly educational

theater that challenges our student

actors and San Leandro audiences to

explore the complexity of both the

individual and the community in a diverse

society with pluralistic cultures and values.

Along with this social and educational value,

SLHS Drama can guarantee the highest

standards of performance.

Theater has always examined and reflected

the full range of human experience. That is

why The DRAMA CLUB believes that

theater -- whether as tragedy or comedy --

remains one of our greatest tools for learning.

Few plays exemplify this philosophy more

powerfully than next season's production of

theLaramieproject.

Club Advisor: Terry Minton

Our 2002 - 2003 Season:

COMING IN MAY, 2003

the most ambitious and important

production in SLHS theater history

The Drama Club

will present

theLaramieproject

"There emerges a mosaic as moving and important as any you will see on the walls of the churches of the world...nothing short of stunning...you will be held in rapt attention." NY Magazine.

"...enormously good-willed, very earnest and often deeply moving..." NY Times.

"...an amazing piece of theatre...leaves us sadder, wiser and tentatively more hopeful..." NY Post.

On October 7, 1988, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation.

The murder of Matthew Shepard became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal.

TheLaramieproject chronicles the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder. Using eight actors to embody more than sixty different people in their own words, The Laramie Project is a complex portrayal that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

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theLARAMIEproject

2002 Outstanding

Actor and Actress

Nick Lopez

Trina Mendieta

2002 Outstanding

Supporting Performance

Raychel Corro