By Katie Scarvey Salisbury Post If you're wondering how creative high school students can be, then you'll want to check out the three 11-minute plays -- written and directed by students -- being performed 7 p.m. Friday at South Rowan High School. The plays will take place in the vocational lobby. Admission is $2. This is the second year that South Rowan drama teacher Sarah Drinkard has held an 11-minute playwriting contest. The competition was started last year by the Young Order of Dramatic Actors (YODA), the drama club at South Rowan. "There are a lot of 10-minute competitions, and we thought it would be fun to do something different," said Drinkard, who enlisted South Rowan English teacher Gerrie Blackwelder to help judge the entries. The first-place play is "Strings," written by Tim Campbell. Described by Drinkard as "a heavy drama," "Strings" is about a musician who has written music that her producers don't like. The play is directed by Kat Haugen and features Haley Haithcock, McKenzie Smith, Randy Clark, Jessica Propst and Maria Corriher. The second-place play is "The Mystery of Pepsi and Coke," a comic spoof written by Abby Bullard, Jeramy Proctor, Tiffany Wilson and Matthew Shue. Directed by Campbell, the play is about two scientists in love with a woman named Cleopatra, who ends up finding and falling in love with Big Foot. "The Mystery of Pepsi and Coke" features Julie Lovejoy, Ethan Crater, Clark, Dustin Stewart, Alex Linn and Bullard. The third-place play, "Beautiful," by an anonymous writer, is a religious drama about a woman dissatisfied with her looks who is having plastic surgery. Directed by LaChrissa Brown, "Beautiful" features Brown, Quinn Roth, Hannah Roseman, Drinkard, Alicia Goodman, Amanda Blankenship, Kelly Greene, Sam Kearns, Smith and Kevin Jacobs, with Campbell as the voice of God. Students began rehearsing at the end of October, meeting four evenings a week. Contact Katie Scarvey at 704-797-4270 or kscarvey@salisburypost.com.
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