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July 20, 2006
Contact: Gordon Ovenshine: 724-738-4854;
gordon.ovenshine@sru.edu
SRU THEATER TROUPE TO PRESENT PLAY IN
SCOTLAND
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa.
– Slippery Rock University students will present seven
productions of “Dark North,” a play written by SRU
theater Professor David Skeele, at the 60th Edinburgh [Scotland]
Festival Fringe, the largest international arts festival in the
world.
Seven student
actors and seven student technicians will produce the play Aug.
5-12. The monthlong festival includes 400 theater companies from
around world performing in the Edinburgh area, with an expected
audience of 1.3 million, according to the festival Web
site.
To
participate, theater companies must find a Scottish sponsor that
believes the theater company offers an interesting production with
broad appeal, said SRU’s Gordon Phetteplace, associate
professor of theater and department chair.
Old Saint
Paul’s Church Hall in Edinburgh agreed to sponsor SRU after
Laura Smiley, assistant professor of theater, visited last summer
to discuss sponsorship. The play, directed by Smiley, will be
performed in the church.
“Everyone
in theater circles knows this festival,” Phetteplace said.
“It’s a great experience. It gives students the
opportunity to experience another culture, produce a show in a
once-in-a lifetime venue, and it will provide a job boost when they
graduate.”
Students will
receive three credit hours for the experience, which counts as a
theater course.
"Dark North," a
horror story, involves the fictional TV medium Daniel Dark North
who discovers he can talk to dead people. “I like it because
we don't use a lot of special effects; it's what the other people
on stage are experiencing," Skeele said.
Students
participating: Mark Blackstock of Monroeville; Braden Blauser of
Parker; Stephanie Brauner of Palm; Deanna Brookens of Slippery
Rock; Katie Erskine of Tarentum, Jeffrey Feola of New Castle; Randi
Gartner of Pulaski; Lydia Giese and Rikki Stupka, both of Butler;
Casey Hughes of Roseland, N.J.; Kelly Mcbane of McKees Rocks;
Matthew McNear of Beaver; Nicholas Quinn of Pittsburgh, and Bethany
Vahabzadeh of Pittsburgh.
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