Showcases show off seniors
Rose Maafu
Issue date: 2/24/10 Section: Entertainment
From Feb. 11-13, Notre Dame de Namur Theatre Department will be casting Student Showcase in the theatre at 7:30p.m. There will be three short plays directed by three different seniors. This is their final project for their last year at NDNU.
The first play is, "Welcome To The Moon," by John Patrick Shanley, and will be directed by Haley Hart. This play takes place in a bar in the Bronx. It is about close friends who have not seen or heard from each other in three years. One of the friend is planning on leaving his wife and is upset because the woman he is in love with does not love him back and had broken up with him fourteen years ago.
The director notes of the seniors' input of the plays, it states that Haley was found out about the play by one of her fellow directors. She "loved it." The play is expected to be packed with "darkly tinged and awkward humor."
The hardest thing for Hayley to learn was to not be afraid to tell people what she wanted them to do.
"Although I wanted my actors to create their own versions of the characters presented, I also wanted my vision of the work realized. It's a very fine line, but I feel as if I learned how to do it successfully.?"
The second play is, "Thirst," by Eugene O'Neill, and will be directed by Lauren Tannous. The play is about survivors in a life raft of a ship that has gone down and surrounded by sharks with no rescue in sight. Thirst was written at the same time as O'Neil wrote two other plays dealing with shipwrecks.
The play is "meant to show the audience how to be better people and how not to fall into the same demise as the tragic character," states Lauren in her director notes. It took a lot of patience to bring the show to life and a great deal of time. She went into the project "determined, excited, and extremely scared."
Lauren believes, "The number one skill for a director is patience and proper communication. I can only hope I practiced those two things properly."
The last play, "The Valentine Fairy" by Ernest Thompson focuses on two characters. Director Senior Sarah Lopez says that what the audience can expect from this play are the lessons to always, "Remember who you are and remember to always love yourself." She believes that sometimes we forget to love ourselves, and we shouldn't.
When asked how it feels to be her own boss, Sarah replies, "It is a team effort no matter what. Even though I am the director I still need people's help. There's no way to do it by yourself."
Sarah believes that when choosing actors for her play, she had to be open- minded and not have expectations or standards for what she was looking for. She believes that it is "best to go in with a clean slate."
The first play is, "Welcome To The Moon," by John Patrick Shanley, and will be directed by Haley Hart. This play takes place in a bar in the Bronx. It is about close friends who have not seen or heard from each other in three years. One of the friend is planning on leaving his wife and is upset because the woman he is in love with does not love him back and had broken up with him fourteen years ago.
The director notes of the seniors' input of the plays, it states that Haley was found out about the play by one of her fellow directors. She "loved it." The play is expected to be packed with "darkly tinged and awkward humor."
The hardest thing for Hayley to learn was to not be afraid to tell people what she wanted them to do.
"Although I wanted my actors to create their own versions of the characters presented, I also wanted my vision of the work realized. It's a very fine line, but I feel as if I learned how to do it successfully.?"
The second play is, "Thirst," by Eugene O'Neill, and will be directed by Lauren Tannous. The play is about survivors in a life raft of a ship that has gone down and surrounded by sharks with no rescue in sight. Thirst was written at the same time as O'Neil wrote two other plays dealing with shipwrecks.
The play is "meant to show the audience how to be better people and how not to fall into the same demise as the tragic character," states Lauren in her director notes. It took a lot of patience to bring the show to life and a great deal of time. She went into the project "determined, excited, and extremely scared."
Lauren believes, "The number one skill for a director is patience and proper communication. I can only hope I practiced those two things properly."
The last play, "The Valentine Fairy" by Ernest Thompson focuses on two characters. Director Senior Sarah Lopez says that what the audience can expect from this play are the lessons to always, "Remember who you are and remember to always love yourself." She believes that sometimes we forget to love ourselves, and we shouldn't.
When asked how it feels to be her own boss, Sarah replies, "It is a team effort no matter what. Even though I am the director I still need people's help. There's no way to do it by yourself."
Sarah believes that when choosing actors for her play, she had to be open- minded and not have expectations or standards for what she was looking for. She believes that it is "best to go in with a clean slate."
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