staging a
comeback PlayMakers’ Summer Youth Conservatory returns after a two-year hiatus By Val e r i a C lo ë s Ph o to g rap hy by J o h n M ich ae l S imp so n
A
s the cast of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” rehearsed one afternoon in July, Anton Peter, who plays bee participant William Barfee, asks the director a question, slipping the word “tintinnabulation” into the conversation. Some members of the 11-person cast burst out laughing in their seats in the David G. Frey Rehearsal Hall in the Joan H. Gillings Center for Dramatic Art while some took a second to catch on
to what happened. Anton, a 2022 Carrboro High School graduate and soon-to-be freshman at 38
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