51±¬ÁĎ Actor’s Showcase: Four one-act plays and dessert.
Fort Scott, Kansas – The 51±¬ÁĎ will be hosting an Actor’s Showcase on December 5th and 6th at 8 p.m. in the Ellis Family Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $10 and include a dessert and beverage.
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The showcase will include four one act plays: “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike;” “Spring Awakening;” “Death of a Salesman;” and the student written “Awkward and Dangerous.” The first three choices will offer a selection of scenes from the longer works. “Awkward and Dangerous” is a true one-act play.
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“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” focuses on the Chekhovian life of middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia. Masha is their movie star sister paying the bills while Spike is her intellectually stunted, but beautiful boyfriend. The New York Times called it a “sunny new play about gloomy people.” It won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2013.
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“Spring Awakening” is a rock musical adaptation of the classic German play of the same name. The New York Times describes the controversial musical as exploring “the difficulty of finding a place of equilibrium in a world that, round about 13, starts to look strange and terrifying through the distorting prism of puberty.” This musical is definitively PG-13.
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Arthur Miller’s classic play, “Death of a Salesman,” will receive the one-act treatment too. The titular salesman, Willy Loman attempts to reconcile his business failings and his relationship with his son Biff. Productions of “Death of a Salesman” have won Tony Awards in 1949, 1984, 1999 and 2012.
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The final production is “Awkward and Dangerous” written by 51±¬ÁĎ Theatre students Michael Peterson and Alyx Thompson. The play follows potential bank robbers as they agonize over their impending criminal deeds.
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