By Ken Irving, Senior Reporter
NWOSU theater is ecstatic about performing their annual children’s play on Thursday.
This year’s play is called “Hard Boiled: A Nursery Crime” by Tracy Wells.
The play starts with Humpty Dumpty approaching the scene with his shell cracked. Characters will band together and become detectives to solve the case before it’s too late.
The play will feature five little monkeys, five Jacks and a Jill, a fiddling cat, a vowel-loving farmer and his barnyard friends, a screaming teapot, three blind mice, three mitten-less kittens, an old woman in a shoe and even more characters that will be involved in proving their innocence.
Northwestern has been hosting a children’s play every year since 1966, inviting the surrounding schools to come to the play.
“I hope that they are introduced to live theatre and art,” the instructor of technical theatre, Mickey Jordan, said. “I hope that it gives them an experience that they otherwise would not have. For example, when I was a third grader in Texas, they took us to a play that did theatre for children and that’s where my career started. I thought it was cool with the costumes and the effects, and I knew then that that was something I wanted to do. We hope that it doesn’t only educate them but inspires them to do things.”
Jordan said he hopes the kids can gain a since of wonder while they’re watching the play.