“Days You Can Use,” an original play written by Jefferson High School Theater Director Mike Hesford, was staged by JHS students from May 30 to June 1 as the drama program’s final show of the year. Presented through nine short interconnected scenes, “Days You Can Use,” set in 1994, is a kaleidoscopic, heartfelt, and riotously well written examination of life before cell phones and wide-spread internet access.
“I don’t think it was a better time, necessarily. Just very different, and the show is meant to shed light on how we used to live,” said Hesford.
“Days You Can Use,” the third original work Hesford has staged at JHS, was first produced in 2020, when the now seniors were freshman and during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the new staging, JHS graduating senior Addy Leary reprised her role as a young woman unable to connect with someone due to a phone number being written on damaged paper.
