Newark Community High School's theatre program performed PUFFS or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic on October 28 and 29 at 7pm.

According to Matt Cox, the Playwright of Puffs, "Puffs is the story of Wayne Hopkins: a regular boy who finds out he’s a wizard and goes to school in England where he makes two best friends and has adventures. This perhaps sounds familiar. But, Wayne is sorted as a Puff, he and the other Puffs simply want to learn how to be wizards and avoid attacks by evil wizards."

"The play most certainly brims with familiar and non-familiar wizards, but it is ultimately a story about growing up,—which, I believe, we have all done at some point or other. It’s a story about going to school, trying to make friends, and not being very popular. There are bullies, you’re figuring yourself out, and all the while the most famous kid in the world sits next to you in class. This is adolescence through a wizard filter."

Hager and Schultz wanted this show to feel as if cousins visiting during the holidays decide to do a play for the adults using materials they could find around the house. This adds to the home-spun and simple feel of the costumes, props and the fact that cast members play multiple characters by simply adding or removing a piece of their costume. Puffs concentrated on teaching our students comedic timing and delivery, and allowed for collaboration throughout the rehearsal process. Congratulations cast and crew!

Cox, M. (n.d.). 7 completely unbiased reasons to see Puffs from the playwright of puffs. Playbill. Retrieved October 30, 2022, from https://playbill.com/article/7-completely-unbiased-reasons-to-see-puffs-from-the-playwright-of-puffs

Puffs (Two Act for Young Wizards) is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com Originally produced Off-Broadway by Tilted Windmills Theatricals (John Arthur Pinckard/David Carpenter) Puffs was developed in Part During a Residency with the University of Florida School of Theater + Dance, Jerry Dickey, School Director Originally Produced Off-Broadway by Stephen Stout and Colin Waitt.