All the stories in the Advocate lately about acting and upcoming plays reminded me of something you might enjoy. Several years ago we attended a district UIL one act play competition at Ganado High School. Just getting there for the performance of the local kids deprived us of an academy award performance. When the renowned actress or acting coach went to critique all the plays there was some confusion down by the stage.

Evidently, the play which may have been presented by Danbury (because I can't remember which school it was) was titled, THE FREEWAY. Apparently it focused around an elderly black lady whose long time home was threatened to be bulldozed to make room for the new freeway.

The confusion was that when the critique was to be delivered the lady giving it couldn't see the black girl who had done such a good job on her part. Minus the makeup, there was no black girl. The kid must have done a bangup job. Sorry we missed it.