Oct 2013 - Night of David Ives One Acts

Fall One Act Festival

We decided to tackle a set of three David Ives one act comedies to start of the fall season.

Duncan Kinzie hosted the show and Alex White ran lights.


 Duncan introduced the directors and ran the donation bucket between shows making just over $60 during the evenings festival!
 
 Thanks to everyone who attended and even more thanks to those who gave a little extra!
 

THE FIRST ONE ACT OF THE EVENING

Variations on the Death of Trotsky
Directed by
Jonah Schnell

Starring
Carl Wickman as Trotsky
Lilly Newsham as Trotsky's wife
and
Thomas Maisel as the Gardener

 
Jonah giving his curtain speech

 
Trotsky (Carl) unaware of the mountain climbing ax in his head.


 
Mrs. Trotsky (Lilly) trying to explain the situation to her husband.



The gardener (Thomas) is the killer...and we knew that from the beginning.


THE SECOND ONE ACT OF THE EVENING

Words, Words, Words!
Directed by
Justin Comegy

Starring
Erin Staton as Kafka
Brian Duggan as Swift
and
Joey Azar as Milton

 
The three monkeys try their best to write Hamlet



    Lights on!
 
 
THIRD ONE ACT OF THE EVENING
 
A Sure Thing
 
Directed by
Melanie Umbaugh

Stage Managed by
Libby Cantrell
 
Starring
Robbie Morefield 
and
Micah Wilson 
 

Mel decides to introduce her cast and stage manager with some clever Haiku.

 
They get there...eventually.
 
 
 
 
Special thanks to:
 
The Drama Department and Mr. Schaefer for producing these three great shows.
 
To Mrs. Arendes for her fantastic donation of concessions for the evening.
 
To Liv Kohring and Emily Jackoway for running the house!
 
To Mr. Johnson and the ECHO for providing the pictures for this blog page!
 
To the peeps who lent out their typewriters (you will remain anonymous)
 
To Mr. Mandernack for the car tire..swings are always a good set piece!
 
To Angela Rose Truesdale for her help with sound and make-up.
 
and
To Mrs. Cashel in the media room for her unending support in making our PR materials quickly and looking great!  

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