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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, February 29, 1992                   TAG: 9202290103
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-5   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
DATELINE: DUBLIN                                LENGTH: Short

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PULASKI HIGH PLAYERS WIN REGIONAL 1-ACT CONTEST

The Pulaski County High School Players have won a regional championship that will send its one-act play to state competition in Charlottesville Monday.

They performed "Conference of Birds" at Lynchburg last week to win their third straight regional championship.

Theater arts teacher Rhonda Welsh, the group's director, said Friday that plans are under way for the troupe's next play, a stage version of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."

"If you could imagine `Saturday Night Life' meets Shakespeare and Chaucer," she said, it would give some idea of what that play will be like.

Auditions are scheduled for March 9. It will be performed at the school May 8 and 9.

The group also came up with a comedy skit, complete with vocal musical accompaniment, demonstrating how the school's new computerized Cougar Hot Line.

With the hot line, parents will be able to phone a special number for brief recorded messages from a particular student's teachers on that day's class and the next day's homework.

They performed it at this month's PTA meeting, when the system was explained, and later at a training session for teachers who will be using it.

"That was just a little something we put together on the bus coming back from these competitions," Welsh said.

The students had only 1 1/2 hours to rehearse before doing the PTA performance.

"These are pretty amazing kids," she said.

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