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4/24/2006
Contact: K.E. Schwab -- 724-738-2199;
e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu
SRU THEATER DEPARTMENT TO HOST THREE-NIGHT
THEATER FESTIVAL MAY 2-4
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa.
– A three-night theater festival offering nine, 10-minute,
student-written plays touching on death, love triangles, family
issues, homosexuality, male friendship, politics and other everyday
facets of life, a night of student-written, one-person monologues
and a production of Dr. David Skeele’s “Dark
North” are being planned for May 2-4 at Slippery Rock
University.
The Brave New Plays
Festival, coordinated by Jeff Feola of New Castle, is set for the
Sheely Theater in the Maltby Center.
The works are the
result of Skeele’s playwriting class and Laura Smiley’s
directing class. Skeele and Smiley are both members of the SRU
theater department faculty.
The 10-minute
works will be offered at 8 p.m. on the festival’s opening
night, with the second night, billed as “Flying Solo: A Night
of One-Person Shows” featuring monologues written and
directed by SRU students.
The final
night, set for 9 p.m., offers Skeele’s original work which
deals with supernatural horror offering the audience “edge of
your seat” story of a family’s curse. Proceeds from the
play’s performance will be used to help fund a cast trip to
the Fringe Festival of Edinburgh Scotland in
August.
The opening
night playwrights, hometowns and plays are:
Jon
Dobis Zelienople The Anchor and the Sea
Marquita
HefflinPittsburgh Triangle
Marilen
Ilagan Mount Pleasant Little
Piggy
Nick
Ciesielski BridgevillePrivate Love
Shannon
Bono Greenville Time is Up
Patricia
Palmateer Beaver
Falls Talking Heads
Shari
Mastalski Butler
Justice
Jeff FeolaNew
Castle Low Tide
Dr. David
Skeele Regular Twilight
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