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HEIDI DESCH | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 5 years, 7 months AGO
by HEIDI DESCH
Heidi Desch is features editor and covers Flathead County for the Daily Inter Lake. She previously served as managing editor of the Whitefish Pilot, spending 10 years at the newspaper and earning honors as best weekly newspaper in Montana. She was a reporter for the Hungry Horse News and has served as interim editor for The Western News and Bigfork Eagle. She is a graduate of the University of Montana. She can be reached at hdesch@dailyinterlake.com or 406-758-4421. | August 22, 2019 6:55 AM

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Bronwen Prew pretends to cry while holding her script during a practice session at the Whitefish Theatre Co. summer performance camp recently at the O’Shaughnessy Center. Participants wrote the play and brought it to life for the audience in one week. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)

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Top, during rehearsal of their scene, Ella Gripton, right, celebrates beating Hannah Szady in a game of rock-paper-scissors during the Whitefish Theatre Co. summer performance camp. Left, Bronwen Prew pretends to cry while holding her script during a practice session. The young actors learned how to collaboratively build a play from the ground up. They created a story and script for their play, rehearsed, and eventually designed scenery, props and costumes to bring the play to life.

Whitefish Theatre Co. recently hosted summer performance camps at the O’Shaughnessy Center.

A group of young stars, in first through third grade, participated in the week-long playmaking camp.

They learned how to collaboratively build a play from the ground up. They created a story and script for their play, rehearsed, and eventually designed scenery, props and costumes to bring the play to life.

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