This year's fall production will be the show J.B. The following is an article was written by North Star reporter; Doug Wong:

From Riches To Rags

Harlequins, North's renown drama club, will be putting on it's annual fall production this year on November 14th.� The show this year will be "J.B." written by Archibald MacLeish. The story of Job set in the 20th century under a Circus tent.� In the play, two former actors, Zuss and Nickles, who have been reduced to popcorn sellers decide to make whimsical use of the empty tent by playing God and Satan. Zuss is played by sophomore Jocelyn Pronovst, while Nickles is played by sophomore Jonathan Snipes.���

J.B., the modern counterpart to Job, is played by Senior Jacob Higgins, who starred with Pronovost and Snipes in last year's musical, "On The Town" in which they brilliantly�� portrayed Chip, Hildy and Pitkin.� Snipes and Higgins were also been together in last year's fall production, "Musical Comedy Murders of the 1940's".� Freshman Candice Adams will be playin J.B.'s wife, Sarah.�

Higgins is ecstatic about this years production, saying that the play will be "deeply impacting, quite moving and, if played right, a real tear-jerker."� Show Manger Megan Alexander remarked "It'll turn a lot of heads and make people think about what we�� perceive as a society about religion ... and their stance on it."�

The "original script" tells the tale of "a man perfect and upright, one that feared God and eschewed" (Job 1:1).� He was rich and prosperous, owning the equivalent of what would be today's Bill Gates' assets.� He had 7 sons and 3 daughters who cursed God in their hearts.� And there came a day when Satan visited heaven and the Lord and Beelzebub made a wager.� Satan bet that he could force Job to curse the Lord; the only condition: Job could not be killed. So Satan destroyed his children, his wife, his servants, and his financial position.� The essence of hellfire shot from the ground and enveloped in a storm of evil.� Diseases ransacked his body and fled from him like cockroaches from light.� And through "all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly." (Job 1:22)�

Prices will be have been raised one dollar to $3 at the door and $2 in advance, the most inexpensive tickets to a high school theater production in Riverside and the first time in over 13 years that prices have been raised.

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