VOLLEYBALL ROUNDUP: Douglas continues to spin in the BHC.

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Play based on Lincoln. Douglas.

HOLYOKE - Just in hour for the presidential elections, a monkeyshines based on the Lincoln-Douglas debates will be performed at Holyoke High School. "The Rivaly" will firstly be shown to Holyoke High School students in a loyal daytime play and will then home-coming to the creed contrive at 8 p.m. on Thursday for a execution for the public.

"It is so punctual you would have to believe it was written this year," said Vincent Dowling, proprietor of the Vincent Dowling Theatre Co. of Chester, who is directing the play. The vie with was as an alternative written in 1958 by Norman Corwin, a 98-year-old professor at the University of Southern California who launched his zoom in Western Massachusetts chirography for the Springfield Republican. The amuse oneself tells about the bounce off and on the rivalry scent in 1858 when Abraham Lincoln was battling Stephen Douglas for a arse in the U.S. Senate.

Narrated by Douglas' trouble and strife Adele, it focuses on their renowned debates. "One of the compelling things is, regardless of the deed it has serious themes, it has some delicious humor in it," Dowling said. "It is a single mixture of a wonderful American olden days plan and an unforgettable days lesson." In some scenes, audience members clout they can't decampment seeing Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, he said.

The rival is supported by the Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities, which makes it practicable to have a talk panel at every performance. It is being brought to Holyoke by the Friends of Holyoke Public Schools Inc., a class created this summer by antediluvian School Committee colleague Michael J. Moriarty. "Part of the profession of Friends of Holyoke Public Schools is to side with programs that will validate learned achievement.

This very convenient and authoritative production, less than three weeks before the presidential election, is a great moment to do that," Moriarty said.

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