Makin' It is a story of people high school students interact with daily. Yes, there are the jocks, the nerds, the popular girls, but none of them are stereotypes. This is a play about the ordinary kids you see walking down any hallway in any school. A good kid, a bit baffled by high school, but trying his or her best to make it through. There's the girl who wants desperately to look like the models in Seventeen, and the football player who must protect his mother and sister from his father's wrath. There's the girl who lost weight, yet when she looks in the mirror, it's the old self she sees. There's the guy who always lands in detention, who has a surprising warmth for the other "misfit" students, and the principal who tries his best to navigate the ever shifting changes of young people. There's Monica, too innocent to know when a cruel practical joke is being played on her, and there's Libby, the girl who tries to keep her intellectual bent a secret, afraid no one will like "a smart girl." And there's the rich kid, who finds out his money will buy neither real friendship or loyalty. Yet, for all their travails, the kids come to understand their own inner difficulties and how, truly they are all the same, searching both to understand and accept themselves, as they strive to make it through four years of high school. At the heart of Makin' It are a number of monologues in which characters step out of the action to address their thoughts to the audience.

Central High School

Principal: Dr. Chendra Dupree

Assistant Principal: Dr. Keturah Reese

Dean of Students: Octavia Holloway

Theatre Director: Ms. Sandie Butler

The Central High School Theatre Department aims to provide a superb theatre education, striving to expose students to all theatrical aspects, and generate well-rounded, creative individuals with experience applicable to the real-world. 

The Theatre Program at Central High School addresses a student's complex, intellectual, social, emotional, physical, and cultural world. As an intellectual tool, Theatre not only teaches facts and figures, but routinely invites analysis, judgment, and synthesis. Central's Theatre Program encourages cooperative learning, team work, organization, and leadership skills while seamlessly integrating all aspects of the art form: script writing, acting, designing, directing, researching, comparing art forms, analyzing, critiquing, and understanding   contexts. At Central High School, we teach students to see the creative world of theatre through multiple perspectives: the playwright, actor, designer, director, and discerning audience member and we encourage our students to view and deconstruct dramatic works as not only a collection of denotative and connotative meanings, but as a metaphoric vision of life that invites, supports, and celebrates varied interpretations. Central High School students are able to express emotion in a safe environment, and learn how to calibrate their emotional responses to various stimuli. Central's Theatre Program endows all students with insight and physicality, offering them the opportunity to explore areas of interaction within their social or formal domain.