THE MADRIGAL

For three nights in April, a cast of nine and a six-piece “homegrown” band brought Godspell to the Gertrude Long Harris Theatre at Tallulah Falls School. This retelling of the Gospel of St. Matthew, written by Michael Tebelak, meshes the modern with the ancient, and a childlike storytelling of Biblical parables. The cast lured in the audience with stories told in conversation, song, and poetry.

“The style of the show is really different from most scripts because improvisation is encouraged from the start,” said director Jonathan Roberts. “The script is full of parentheses with ideas and suggestions that the actors had to create from. It makes it really tough for high school actors to take