The Winter Guard play
Digital Dramaturgy
The Winter Guard Play Digital Dramaturgy
Winterguard is NOT Color-guard. Forget the football, forget the pompoms. In Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania, a High School Winterguard team attempts to choreograph a routine on the topic of Global Warming. A play about catching flags, catching each other, and realizing the grown-ups aren’t going to save you.
The Winter Guard Play
by Avery Deutsch
Winter Guard is acrobatics, a dance, a competition, and a statement. It could be seen as the indoor version of Color Guard, but some see it as a sport of its own, like it is viewed in the play. Winter Guard routines frequently have very specific themes, from human trafficking to simply, "spiders". Like Color Guard, these routines are done by a team and incorporate flags, sabres, and rifles. They are performed indoors on a tarp decorated for each specific routine. While the girls in the play view Color Guard as the enemy, in the real world they are very much intertwined.