It was a quiet Wednesday night as South Bay residents and a handful of VIPs packed the theater at Southwestern College to see the 48th annual Bonitafest Melodrama Here Comes the Sun, a play not-so-loosely based on actual events from 2008 to 2011 about the scandal at Southwestern College and the superintendent’s efforts to silence the student journalists at the college newspaper, The Sun.

As a piece of theater, Here Comes the Sun sparkles. The dialogue is witty, the caricatures of administrators are played with just the right degree of exaggeration, and the score keeps the play lighthearted despite the serious subject matter.

Ella Aldridge shines as Dr. Bradford, the journalism professor and moral center of the story. Her performance juxtaposes the satirical portrayal of President Chamber

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