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Play features bevy of local children
Officer Ketchum (Gianna Breedlove) questions the crime scene after a valuable necklace is stolen.
The Book Fairy (Stacy Oehlwein, second from left) gives instructions to Doctor Dolittle (Emma Langford), Anne Shirley (Bristol Sliter), Wendy (Avery Prewitt), Dorothy (Adney Lacy) and Tom Sawyer (Emmett Schumway).
Long John Silver (Tyson Lacy) discusses "business" with Queen of Hearts (Natalie Hurd).
Robin Hood (Jude Falk) gives his opinion to a group including Wendy (Avery Prewitt), Toto (Belle Crotta), Dorothy (Adney Lacy) and Tom Sawyer (Emmett Schumway).
Burglars Eddie (Richard Breedlove) and Fingers (Alyssa Duval) are caught in the act by book characters.
DAVENPORT - Family, friends and community members filled in seats in the High School Auditorium as the Davenport Drama Club performed its inaugural play, "The Enchanted Bookshop," in two showings Saturday, June 3.
The play followed book shop owner Margie (Alyssa Breedlove), who is in danger of having to close the shop due to a lack of sales as interest in books declines worldwide. As Margie deals with low sales and a strange incident with sleazy burglars Fingers (Alyssa Duval) and Eddie (Richard Breedlove), book characters in her shop come to life at night thanks to the magic of the book fairy (Stacy Oehlwein), with Margie's cat, Bombalurina (Brianna Duval) the only living creature to bear witness to this occurrence...at first.
Characters portrayed by local children, like Robin Hood (Jude Falk), Tom Sawyer (Emmett Schumway), Heidi (Seyler Lacy), Pollyanna (Kenley Hille), Dorothy (Adney Lacy), Sherlock Holmes (Rylan Breedlove) and more worked throughout the play to find a stolen necklace and save the bookshop.
The Drama Club is currently breaking for the summer, but director Delia Breedlove is currently planning for next year's play. The club, run through the Public Library, is free to children grades 3-12.
Drew Lawson is the editor of the Davenport Times. He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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