Recently North High School put on a small production based on the one-act play Trifles by Susan Glaspell.

North senior Sarah Sackmann, who acts the part of Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife, describes Trifles as a play set in 1910 that shows the oppression of women at the time.

“You can’t really hear the name Trifles without hearing the word

feminist,” Sackmann said.

          From left to right, Kaila Day, Sarah Sackmann, Connor Starks and Cole Swaby stand facing each other in a scene where Swaby, who acts as the sheriff, is questioning the women to figure out who killed Mrs Hale’s(Kaila Day) husband. Photo Cred: Tracy Lamptey

Senior Gaia Hendrix-Petry said the play is also about women’s empowerment.

“It’s [about] the silencing of women and how they come together to overcome that,” Gaia Hendrix-Petry said.

Although Trifles had a small cast of five actors, the audience laughed and seemed to enjoy themselves.

“I really like working with a cast of five people and with a more kind of intimate setting,” Sackmann said. “I think that having such a small cast made it possible to complete the rehearsals because everyone put forward the same amount of work.”

Hendrix-Petry said that they were able to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time.

“All of the actors and all the tech we all came together to create something pretty beautiful,” Hendrix-Petry said.