The Adventures of Baron Darcy Popplewhite
In mid-April, Rijeka’s theatre-goers had a chance to see a new writing play, “The Adventures of Baron Darcy Popplewhite”, performed by TRY theatre’s 7th and 8th grade group. Linguistically more challenging then any other TRY theatre production, the play takes us a century back into the intriguing world of English aristocracy and their resourceful servants. During the two nights, the cast (Vrhovski, Dessardo, Butorac, Šustar, Arbanas brothers, Ettinger-DeLong, Jurčević-Franko, Banov, Kaštelan, Fućak) did a splendid job interpreting their lines in custom-made Sierra Verunica costumes, causing one established critic to write: “When I learned that the actors were all still in middle school, I was as positively shocked as I was ashamed at the level of my own English.”
The play was written and directed by Ivan Verunica with Erin Sweeney as the assistant director and stage manager.