News & Notes # 8-2010 Festival-Chapter Select Showcase

The Chapter Select Showcase offers a chance to see other schools' productions of one act plays. You get a good chance to see plays you might not have seen, to watch the talent of other students your age, and to have fun.

All Chapter Select Plays are scheduled for the Howell Theatre

WEDNESDAY

2:00 p.m. I Never Saw Another Butterfly, by Celeste Raspanti. Mississippi State Thespians, Troupe 7261, DeSoto Central High School, Southaven; David Boone, director.

3:00 p.m. The Secrets We Keep From Ourselves, by Brooke Prince. Maryland State Thespians, Troupe 2621, La Plata High School; Jennifer Joyner, director. (About a girl who has been sexually abused.)

4:00 p.m. Wiley and the Hairy Man, by Suzan Zeder. New Hampshire State Thespians, Troupe 6986, Alvirne High School, Hudson; Jennifer LaFrance, director.

5:00 p.m. The Yellow Boat, by David Saar. Troupe 6730, Nevada State Thespians, Liberty High School, Henderson; Joseph Welker, director.


THURSDAY

2:00 p.m. All the Great Books (abridged), by Reed Martin
and Austin Tichenor. Missouri State Thespians, Troupe 3168, Parkway South High School, Manchester; Jennifer Forrest-James, director.

3:00 p.m. The Least Offensive Play in the Whole Darn World, by Jonathan Rand. Kansas State Thespians, Troupe 639, Salina Central High School; Kevin Knak, director.

4:00 p.m. Fortress, by Michael Scanlan. Iowa State Thespians,Troupe 2027, Davenport West High School; Wayne Hess, director. (A 1988 play about a boy grappling with the discovery that he was adopted.)

5:00 p.m. The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza (Iliad! Iliad! Iliad!), by Don Zolidis. Alabama State Thespians, Troupe 7374, Catholic High School, Huntsville; Danielle Neupert, director


FRIDAY

2:00 p.m. Hello, Out There, by William Saroyan. Indiana State Thespians, Troupe 106, Maconaquah High School, Bunker Hill; Ann Hileman, director.

3:00 p.m. The Last Night of Ballyhoo, by Alfred Uhry. North Carolina State Thespians, Troupe 5887, Hibriten High School, Lenoir; Joshua Scott, director.

4:00 p.m. 9th Grade Nothin’, by the cast. Minnesota State Thespians, Troupe 7539, Perpich Center for Arts Education, Golden Valley; Tory Peterson, director.

5:00 p.m. The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Arizona State Thespians, Troupe 6901, Willow Canyon High School, Surprise; Storm Girkin, director.


SATURDAY

2:00 p.m. This, Uh, Body, by Michael Lee. Texas State Thespians, Troupe 3543, Round Rock High School; Michael Lee, director.

3:00 p.m. Something’s Rotten in the State of Denmark, by Joseph Wallace. Arkansas State Thespians, Troupe 6338, Alma High School; Shane Bocksnick, director.

4:00 p.m. Story Theatre, by Paul Sills. West Virginia State Thespians, Troupe 2561, Huntington High School; Helen Freeman, director.

5:00 p.m. Pullman Car Hiawatha, by Thornton Wilder. The Thespian troupes from the Northern Mariana Islands,Saipan. Directed by the cast (really Dowen).

Festival News & Notes #7-Chapter Select

Festival presents a tremendous opportunity to take in a lot of plays. Besides the productions staged on the "main stage"--which are generally high tech, costume and set intensive, and full-length plays and musicals, there are shorter, "easier" plays produced in the Chapter Select Showcase. These are also staged by various Thespian troupes and chapters, and generally achieve a wholly-satisfactory degree of stage-craft and interest. They are also shorter and, because of the limitations on set and tech intensity, use more imagination and innovation in the presentations.

This year, the Chapter Select Showcase (based on the tentative schedule) will include:

SEASCAPE WITH SHARKS AND DANCER, by Don Nigro (Troupe 1849, Iowa)
THE SQUARE, by Mark Wallace (Troupe 5084, Arizona)
THE SEUSSIFICATION OF ROMEO AND JULIET, by Peter Bloedel (Troupe 2290, Colorado)
BETWEEN DAYLIGHT AND BOONVILLE, by Matt Williams (Troupe 5623, Indiana)
TWO ROOMS, by Lee Blessing (Troupe 7261, Mississippi)
PIZZA WITH SHRIMP ON TOP, by Aaron Levy (Troup 7260, Arkansas)
THE MARVELOUS PLAYBILL, adated from Miguel Cervante by Tim Kelly (Troup 5374+, CNMI)
IMAGINARY HARRY, by Bradley Hayward, (Troup 264, West Virginia)
THIS IS A TEST, by Stephen Gregg (Troupe 6215, Nevada)
ALL IN THE TIMING, by David Ives (Troupe 1539, Minnesota)
ART, by Yasmina Reza (Troupe 6763, Texas)
THE AUDITIONERS, by Doug Rand (Troupe 4151, Kansas)
ON THE DAY AND THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED, by Dan McCormick (Troupe 88079, Pennsylvania)
SURE THING, by David Ives (Troupe 7093, North Carolina)
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED), by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield (Troupe 6185, New Jersey)
DRUGS ARE BAD, by Jonathan Rand (Troupe 1732, Oregon).