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Durham filmmaker David Mayer teamed up with Walltown Children’s Theatre (WCT) in May to host the premiere of his documentary “Senior Night,” which captures the emotional intensity of the final basketball game in the career of Anthony Peak, a Riverside High School player in his senior year. The evening began with the performance of an original poem written by Durham-born-and-raised poet Zach Goldberg, followed by an original dance choreographed by Walltown Children’s Theatre Artistic Director Cynthia Penn-Halal. “Senior Night is a movie told entirely from the point of view of an athlete and a coach on one night in a gym in Durham,” Dave says. “The drama never leaves the gym. The plot is governed entirely by the rhythm of a basketball game and by the aesthetic beauty of the loud, raucous gymnasium. For anyone who has done what they love for the last time, it is an opportunity to bear witness to the final moments of Anthony playing basketball in front of his community.”
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AUGUST 2018
1 Riverside High Head Men’s Basketball Coach Brian Strickland with former players Sean Deniton, Will Booth, T.J. Warren (now of the Phoenix Suns) and filmmaker David Mayer. 2 Ann Marie Rasmussen and Jean Obarr. 3 Fritz Mayer and Mary Kay Delaney. 4 Steven Unruhe and Marian Larrabee. 5 Eliza Mathew, Annalee Rigdon and Snigdha Peddireddy.