'The Secret In The Wings' To Be Performed At Westfield High School

WESTFIELD, NJ — Young Westfield actors will soon take the stage and perform a dark, mysterious tale for ticket-paying audiences.

The Westfield High School Theater Department will put on Mary Zimmerman's "The Secret in the Wings" at the WHS Auditorium this weekend.

Show times will be Nov. 17 at 4 p.m. and Nov. 18 and Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Originally written and directed by Zimmerman for the Lookingglass Theatre Company, "The Secret in the Wings" adapts a group of lesser-known fairy tales to create a theatrical work that sets their dark mystery against her signature wit and humor, according to play's summary.

The framing story concerns a child and the frightening, ogre babysitter with whom her parents leave her. As the babysitter reads from a book, the characters in each of the tales materialize, with each tale breaking off just at its bleakest moment before giving way to the next one. The central tale is told without interruption after which each previous tale is successively interrupted and then weaved together in the end.

Zimmerman is playwright from Nebraska and has received more than 20 Joseph Jefferson Awards for her creative work in the Chicago area and won a 2002 Tony Award for Best Direction for her adaptation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses."

No tickets will be sold at the door, so people must purchase tickets online here. Tickets cost $12 each.

Attendees must have a printed copy of their ticket or mobile copy to enter.

More details can be found on the Westfield Theater Guild's Facebook.

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