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Around Annapolis: Teens run theater camp for younger thespians

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 07/24/09

In the lobby of Colonial Players on East Street, students turned a square of checkered cloth into a magic carpet. Then it became "a weird-looking pizza," a baby diaper, a jaunty beret, a "paper" airplane, a treasure map and, when rolled up tight, a telescope.

Diane M. Rey — For The Capital Leslie Thompson, 17, a rising senior at Annapolis High School and a cofounder of the Name Pending Theater Company, helps camper Maddy Lager, 7, of Cape St. Claire mix paint to decorate her face mask at “Camp Pending,” a theater camp run recently by local teens for younger thespians in training.
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It wasn't magic - it was improvisational theater, and the student actors were honing their skills at a theater camp created by teens for younger thespians in training.

The camp represented a new collaboration between Colonial Players, which will hold its 60th anniversary gala tomorrow night, and the Name Pending Theater Company which launched last...

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