The students from the Ocean County Vocational Technical School’s Grunin Performing Arts Academy will perform the show “A Monster Calls” at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14 and at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15 on the Grunin Center’s main stage at Ocean County College.
Tickets are $24 and may be purchased online at grunincenter.org.
The play is based on a novel by Patrick Ness, an American-British (thanks to dual citizenship) author, journalist, lecturer and screenwriter. It’s adapted from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd, another writer of children’s and teen novels.
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