Acting class builds bridges by performing socially distanced play By Scott Hewitt, Columbian Arts & Features Reporter Published: January 30, 2021, 3:36pm Share: 9 Photos Parielle Shapard as the old green grasshopper, center, and Nick Campos as the centipede perform during Friday night's staged reading of "James and the Giant Peach," by Downstage Center Productions, at The Historic Academy in downtown Vancouver. That's a giant peach pit behind them, of course. (Joshua Hart/The Columbian) Photo Gallery What do young thespians do when “cataclysmic events” — a global pandemic, riots in the streets — are happening all around them? They put on a show. That’s what the students in Heather Lundy Kahl’s new acting school informed their teacher, she said.