ISU Performs Encore of Student Play Competing at The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Indiana State University's theater department will present an encore performance of "Mechanics of Flight" Monday before heading off to compete for a chance to perform at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
"Mechanics of Flight," written by undergraduate playwright Jonathan Golembiecki and directed by Theater major Andrea Swift, will be performed at the Region III Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (ACTF) Jan. 11-16 at Illinois State University.
The production was one of 12 chosen from 54 entries in a five-state region.
The play, set in a local coffeehouse, features a frustrated young writer looking for his new play that must be finished by dawn. He realizes that the story is as close as his own passions, which are then acted out before his very eyes.
"Mechanics of Flight" will be performed 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan 10 in the Dreiser Theater. The event is free and open to the public.
The work of another ISU undergraduate theater major, Steve Yeagley, is one of six one-act plays selected to be read at ACTF. Theater department chairperson Arthur Feinsod will direct the reading of ³Red Moon² with a cast consisting of faculty and students.
Feinsod said this is the first time the department can remember that two undergraduate ISU playwrights received recognitions in the same year.
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival is a program geared toward serving and improving the quality of college theater nationwide. In addition to festival invitations, the program awards individual recognition in areas such as design, directing, acting and play writing.
At the festival, "Mechanics of Flight" will be judged by a three-member panel. Four to six of the participating productions will be invited for showcases at the national festival this spring at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
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Contact: Carolyn Rodkey, Theater Publicity Director (812) 237-3334 or thpub@isugw.indstate.edu
Writer: Paula Meyer, ISU Communications & Marketing, (812) 237-3783 or devmeyer@isugw.indstate.edu
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