{"id":70579,"date":"2017-04-07T13:57:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T19:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-middle-school-stages-hoodie-play\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T19:57:21","slug":"cortez-middle-school-stages-hoodie-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-middle-school-stages-hoodie-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Middle School stages \u2018Hoodie\u2019 play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:d372fcff-56a3-47b2-bf22-826bf8a01c52 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d7GiTYtkcLU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>After several shows set in fantasy worlds, the Cortez Middle School theater department next weekend will stage a more realistic play \u2013 one that takes place in a middle school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoodie\u201d is a vignettes play with multiple stories strung together about the struggles middle school students face, director Angela Gabardi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the first show we\u2019ve done with characters we see every day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Show times are April 14 at 7 p.m. and April 15 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for kids ages 2 to 12, M-CHS students and seniors. Tickets are free for kids under 2, CMS students and staff and M-CHS staff.<\/p>\n<p>The play features an ensemble cast with no true main characters, Gabardi said. It deals with issues such as fitting in, body image, friendships and changing voices.<\/p>\n<p>Eighth-grader Jadon Cruzan said he liked the show because everyone gets their own moment in the spotlight, since there are no main characters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like anything we\u2019ve done before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gabardi said many of the early rehearsals for the play involved reading the scenes and talking about them. Cast members discussed the scenes and how they are similar to real life, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had a lot to say,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Seventh-grader Wannassita Neves said \u201cHoodie\u201d is a new type of play with lots of diversity in its characters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives people an inside look at middle school,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jadon said audiences will come away with the knowledge that middle school isn\u2019t as easy as it seems. Though the show takes on tough topics, he said it\u2019s also a funny play.<\/p>\n<p>Gabardi said people should expect to laugh during the show, but also to be in awe of how expressive the cast can be with the material in the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople will learn more about who these awesome kids are and what they\u2019re going through,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jacobk@the-journal.com\">jacobk@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performances are set for this weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,147,60,29,316],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-cortez-middle-school","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-video"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70579"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}