It’s not an easy play. Cedars Christian School drama teacher, Caroljoy Green, knows that but she also knows her experienced acting students have the chops to pull it off. The Giver, written in 1993 by award-winning children’s author Lois Lowry, is a book that is a staple in high school English classes throughout the province.
The Giver is about a community that lives in a seemingly ideal world without conflict, poverty, injustice, or inequality, but that also includes no changes in climate, sees no colour and has no feelings. Green said she knew she had something special when the drama students accepted the challenge of performing the dramatized version of the novel. “The play rehearsals are going really well and I’m really excited about it,” Green said. “We’ve done Anne of Green Gables and It’s a Wonderful Life – a lot of light-hearted comedies and last year we did Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which was also a departure for the kids but still a comedy. This year I wanted to do something a little different – this play is a little more thoughtful than our previous production