Washington High School will present a musical called “Little Shop of Horrors” this weekend. Despite the hype of it being a cult classic that has been presented through film and onstage, the most exciting and interesting aspect of this particular interpretation is the students and faculty of Washington High School. Travis Carter, head of the theater department at WHS, often starts working with theater students when they come in as freshmen. He has some of them all four years of high school, teaching them tricks of the trade and grooming them to become better as actors, stagehands, etc. In high school and growing up in general, kids struggle with finding their place in the grand scheme of life. You worry about fitting in and you worry about what your peers think of you, all while attempting to, ultimately, receive a high school diploma. How wonderful it is for Carter and contributing faculty at WHS to have extracurricular activities such as this for the students to have not only an outlet to express themselves as individuals but also to work together as a group, bouncing ideas and personalities off of each other. The group of students has surely had to learn to work together as a unit and in smaller groups, depending on their job, to create what is going to be the “Little Shop of Horrors”.  Not only are there actors but sound and technical staff, stagehands and managers and an art department that has created several versions of the man-eating plant, Audrey. We strongly recommend attending this production—not just because it will be a good play—but to support the work and collaboration that these students as well as the guiding faculty have put in to present it.