HSU Festival of Ten Minute Plays

"Intriguing! Entertaining!"

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10th Annual 10 Minute Play Festival reviewed
here in Northern Lights.

Heads Up

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10th Annual 10 Minute Play
Festival is previewed in Eureka
Times-Standard's Northern Lights,
Eureka Reporter, North Coast Journal,
Arcata Eye and online at HSU Now.
Production members are interviewed
on ArtWaves, Tuesday (Apr. 29) at
1:30 0n KHSU.

10th Annual 10 Minute Play Festival (April 2008)

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poster design by Johanna Hembry

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Drama, comedy, fantasy and ten minutes later, another one! It's the 10th annual Ten Minute Play Festival at HSU, Thursdays through Saturdays, April 24-26 and May 1-3 at 7:30 PM in Gist Hall Theatre on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets $5 general $3 students and seniors from HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free limited seating.

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Mason Lev, Jonny Barrett, Mackenzie Cox and
Brian Pike in Beneath the Gas by Alex Costello.

It's 10 for the 10!

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It started in a classroom a decade ago, to become one of the most anticipated and popular events on the annual HSU performance schedule. Beginning April 24, the HSU Ten Minute Play festival celebrates its tenth birthday with this year’s slate of imaginative comedies, dramas and fantasies created and performed by HSU students.

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Chris Werner, Johanna Hembry, Rebecca House
and Chris Scardina in A Day in the Park by Joseph
Castro.

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“I’m really excited about it,” said Margaret Thomas Kelso, HSU professor in the Theatre, Film and Dance department and coordinator of the festival, who began it in 1998. “The whole festival grew out of an end-of-the-class presentation in the advanced playwriting course. It was very informal, with no sets or costumes. But it was successful, and each year we kept adding to it, and it’s grown and grown to the point where it is a major part of the season. It’s an event people look forward to.”

This year’s festival features eight new ten-minute plays running the gamut from intense drama (“Beneath the Gas,” set in a Nazi death camp, and “Daughters,” about the interrogation of a suspected terrorist) to high comedy (“Condition Blue,” in which a criminal coddles a depressed detective) and meaningful fantasy (“Mail Room Madness,” in which a contemporary Dilbert converses with his letter opener, and “To Womb It May Concern,” a dialogue between twins on the pros and cons of being born.)

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Steven King in Condition Blue by Alex Gradine.

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Subjects include a personal relationship in crisis (“A Day in the Park”) and the search for a meaningful life (“You Are Here.”) “There are three plays in this festival that relate to current political issues,” Kelso noted, “which is kind of unusual for us.” Besides the aforementioned “Beneath the Gas” and “Daughters,” the war in Iraq is examined by the ghosts of two friends and adversaries during the Crusades who meet on a contemporary battlefield in “The King’s Crusade.”

This year’s playwrights are Jonny Barrett, Joseph Castro, Clayton Cook, Alex Costello, Mackenzie Cox, Henry Echeverria, Alex Gradine and Kevin McCaffree.

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Kyle Ryan and Kady Pomerleau in To Womb It
May Concern by Jonny Barrett.

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After that first presentation of ten minute plays in a classroom in 1998, this event moved from one small black-box theatre space to another. One year it also played in Eureka, at what was then the World Premiere Theatre of Playwrights in Progress. It was only in the last several years that the 10 Minute Play Festival in the Gist Hall Theatre became part of the official Theatre, Film and Dance season, ending the school year.

But it still doesn’t necessarily look like other productions on the schedule. There are costumes, but “we still keep the setting very simple,” Kelso said. “We use just a few black wood blocks because that helps to unify all the plays.”

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Alex Gradine and Ozrel Padilla in Kings' Crusade
by Clayton Cook.

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The festival is also still an outgrowth of the Play Development Workshop, an advanced playwriting class. “The focus in that class is on the collaborative development of plays,” Kelso said, “and the festival is a natural progression of that. Actors and designers and others in the class all get the play when it is fresh they give the playwright ideas and suggestions and feedback. But that’s where it ends in terms of the class.”

“Now students of that class submit scripts for the Festival. Other students can, too—this year we have scripts from the beginning playwriting class, and one from a fiction writer in the English department who has never written a play before.”

“We get about 35 plays a year now. A committee of faculty chooses somewhere between 7 and 10. Then each of those scripts gets a director, a cast of actors, plus some costume and design support. And the collaborations continue.”

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2008 playwrights are (back) Mackenzie
Cox, Alex Gradine, (front) Jonny Barrett,
Alex Costello. Not pictured: Joseph Castro,
Henry Echeverria, Clayton Cook and
Kevin McCaffree.

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For the playwrights, the creative process doesn’t stop with the Festival production. “We really look at the audience response—what do they get and enjoy, what aren’t they getting? And playwrights rewrite after that. That’s an important part of the process.”

“While the audience is important in all play productions, it’s particularly important with new plays, because that’s how the playwrights know if what they are trying to communicate is getting across.”

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Playwrights as superheroes: Jonny Barrett, Mackenzie
Cox, Alex Costello and Alex Gradine.

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Why has the festival become so popular? “It’s exciting to see what the next generation of writers and theatre people are interested in,” Kelso said.

In terms of production values and polish, the Ten Minute Play Festival is still relatively modest. “But in terms of importance, and people really anticipating it,” Kelso said, “as well as students putting a lot of energy and effort into it, it’s become a big event each year.”

The 10th annual HSU Ten Minute Play Festival plays Thursdays through Saturdays, April 24-26 and May 1-3 at 7:30 PM in Gist Hall Theatre on the HSU campus in Arcata. Tickets are $5 general, $3 students and seniors, from the HSU Ticket Office (826-3928) or at the door. HSU students free limited seating.

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Mason Lev, Jonny Barrett, Mackenzie Cox and
Brian Pike in Beneath the Gas.

The Plays

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From Beneath the Gas
by Alex Costello

Powerful drama about Nazi death camp prisoners who find an unexpected survivor, and must decide if her life is worth theirs.

Rosenthal- Mason Lev
Max- Gabriel Holman
Doctor Hoffman- Jonny Barrett
Herschal- Brian Pike
Girl- Mackenzie Cox

Mailroom Madness
by Henry Echeverria

Office satire about an interpretive dance major who can’t fit into his cubicle world—until his letter opener starts talking to him.

Steve- Brian Coker
Pete- Ian Santos
TJ- Chisana White
Jill- Kelly Whitaker

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Steven King in Condition Blue

The Plays

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Condition Blue
by Alex Gradine

A fun comedy about a depressed detective and the criminal who coddles him.

Greg-Steven King
Ann-Rachel Brink
Mr. Badd-Alejandro Servin

Daughters
by Kevin McCaffree

Intense interaction between an FBI agent and a suspected terrorist, addressing the question, who do we really care about?

Michael Barnes, a police officer- Jeff Wilson
Joshua Peterson, a federal agent- Ethan Heinz
Terrorist- Chris Hegler

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Johanna Hembry and Chris Scardina
in A Day in the Park

The Plays

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A Day in the Park
by Joseph Castro

The surreal journey of a young couple trying to survive and heal from a trauma in their lives.

Richard- Chris Werner
Marisela- Johanna Hembry
Richard’s Bum- Chris Scardina
Marisela’s Bum- Rebecca House

You Are Here
by Mackenzie Cox

She’s little girl Lost—literally—trying to find her way among other lost souls in a crowded train station.

Lost- Adrienne Lopez
Going in Circles- Krista Powell
Running Away- Ryan Hall
On My Way- Omari Howard
Fate- Ken Klima

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Alex Gradine and Ozrel Padilla in Kings' Crusade.

The Plays

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To Womb It May Concern
by Jonny Barrett

A comedy with a serious edge about twins in utero, one eager and one reluctant to be born.

Infant- Kady Pomerleau
Baby- Kyle Ryan
Doctor- Danni Joy Ladimir

The Kings’ Crusade
by Clayton Cook

An encounter between King Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, both friends and adversaries in the Crusades, on a contemporary battlefield in Iraq.

King Richard the Lionheart- Alex Gradine
King Saladin- Ozrel Padilla
Uday- Kelly Whitaker
Gabir- Joe Castro

Our Production

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stage manager Mychal Ducken and producer
Megan Hughes.

Our Production

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Coordinator: Margaret Thomas Kelso
Producer: Megan Hughes
Lighting Designer/Board Op: Rusty Gaidzik
Sound Designer/Board Op: Brendan O'Loughlin
Prop Designer: Calder Johnson
Costume Designer: Amy Echeverria
Stage Manager: Mychal Ducken
Assistant Stage Manager: Mattie Eckstrom

The Whole Gang

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well, at least the ones who hung out at the photo
shoot. (click to enlarge.)

2007 9th annual Ten Minute Play Festival

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Brendan O'Loughlin and Marisa Castaneda in "Freebox."

All photos by HSU Graphic Services unless otherwise noted.

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What goes on in a young woman’s mind about the guy she’s been kissing? How can a couple of secret agents save the world?

What prompts a boy to realize his mother doesn’t love him? Is there really a reason to get off the couch and go to work? Can you ever be free, or is freedom just another box?

These are some of the questions that eight HSU student playwrights address in the fast-paced form of the ten minute play. These scripts, developed through the year, will be brought to life by student directors and actors in the 9th annual HSU Ten Minute Play Festival at Gist Hall Theatre on the last weekend of April and the first weekend of May.

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Jonny Barrett and Kristin Hoffman in "Concrete

Evidence." Photo: BK.

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On a simple, modular set, student actors and directors will take you to Mayan ruins, a slacker apartment, an inner city streetcorner, and into the bowels of a very strange funeral home. You’ll be inside a young girl’s imagination and witness to a young man’s recollection of his childhood. And more.

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The 2007 playwrights: Renee Carney, Erica Davie, Kato Buss,
Richard Renteria, Missy Hopper. Not pictured: Joseph Castro,
Alyssa Loomer and Emily Loeffler.

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You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and ten minutes later you’ll do it again at the HSU 9th Annual 10 Minute Play Festival, Thursday through Saturday, April 26-28, and May 3-5 at 7:30 PM in Gist Hall Theatre on the HSU campus in Arcata. Ticket: $5 general, $3 student/senior, limited seating free to HSU students.

Start the Presses!

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Start the Presses!

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10 Minute Triumph: review, Eureka Reporter, May 3 by Wendy Butler.

"Ten Minute Play Festival Takes the Stage" by Jacqueline Torres in the HSU Lumberjack, April 18.

"Fast Paced Comedy in Play Festival" on HSU News Online, April 20.

Three photos from 10 Minute Festival in Arcata Eye, April 24.

HSU's Annual 10 Minute Playfest Starts Tonight at Eureka Reporter, April 26.

HSU 10 Minute Play Festival: Concise, Creative, Collaborative at Eureka Times Standard, April 26.

"In Ten Minutes," North Coast Journal, April 26.

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Joey Bishop and Missy Hopper in "Cold Tootsies in the

Hands of Fortune's Wheel"

Our Plays

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Cold Footsies in the Hands of Fortune’s Wheel: A Love Story
By Renee Carney
Directed by Erica Davie

A bizarre comedy about love and loneliness, set in a funeral home.

Cast:
Missy Hopper (Beautician)
Andrew Schnell (Dead One)
Thallia Bird (Dead Two)
Joey Bishop (Mortician)

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Samantha Koebelin in "Lonely Little Girls."

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Lonely Little Girls
By Erica Davie
Directed by Joe Castro

An Edward Gorey style tale about a little girl whose imagination goes crazy.

Cast:
Brian Pike (narrator)
Samantha Koebelin (Zilla)
Megan Hughes (Violet)

I Have a Dream Too
By Richard Renteria
Directed by Alex Gradine

A tense drama about high school friends who plot to find power in a society that alienates them.

Cast:
Kenneth Tejada
Omari Howard

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MacKenzie Cox and Sofia Pererra

in "Between a Rock and a Soft Place."

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Between a Rock and a Soft Place
By Alyssa Lomier
Directed by Kato Buss

A comedy about roommates who don’t want to go to work.

Cast:
Mackenzie Cox
Sofia Pereira

Regarding Robert Chang
By Emily Loeffler
Directed by Liz Fairchild

A surrealist piece about the early stages of falling in love.

Cast:
Rachel Brink
Ryan Mantle
Rashawnda Kelly-Brown
Emily Blanche
Rebecca Thompson

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Jonny Barrett and Kristen Hoffman in "Concrete Evidence."

BK photo.

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Concrete Evidence
By Missy Hopper
Directed by Megan Hughes

A comedy about trying to save the world.

Kristin Hoffman (Spy One)
Jonny Barrett (Spy Two)
Mason Daryl Lev (Doctor)
Krista Powell (Nurse)

Circus Beneath the Breasts
By Joe Castro
Directed by Renee Carney

A lyrical reminiscence of a young boy’s moment of revelation.

Joseph Angelatis
Naveena Bird
JM Wilkerson
Brendan O’Laughlin, guitar

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Brendan O'Loughlin in "Freebox."

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Freebox
By Kato Buss
Directed by Colleen Roberts

An absurdist piece, a la Beckett, about freedom and power.

Cast:
Brendan O’Loughlin (Jones)
Marisa Castaneda (Sarah)

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Samantha Koebelin and Megan Hughes in "Lonely Little

Girls." photo: M.T. Kelso

Our Production

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Advisor, Dramaturg: Margaret Thomas Kelso
Producer: Kato Buss
Stage Manager: Justin Takata
Assistant Stage Manager: Mychal Ducken
Costume Shop Manager: Catherine Brown
Scenic Designer: Kato M.T. Buss
Technical Director: Jayson Mohatt
Asst. Technical Director: Justin K. Takata
Lighting Design: Emly Blanche
Sound Design: Justin K. Takata, Alyssa Lomier

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WE WANT YOU! to join us for the annual Festival of Ten Minute Plays
at HSU! Missy Hopper in "Mother Courageous"

Student Newspaper Review

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Today's Lumberjack, the Humboldt State University student newspaper, features a review of this year's Festival of Ten Minute Plays by Melissa Wozniak.

She quotes an audience member who liked "My Best Recipe" and wished it had been longer. Of "The Unauthorized and Untrue Autobiography of a Sasquatch," she writes, "Physical comedy and great costuming dominate these 10 minutes of hilarity."

She concludes: "So it turns out that 10 minutes is enough time to put on a show with multiple characters, complex stories, and sometimes, songs."

"Stage Matters" in last week's North Coast Journal considers the process of taking a 10 minute play from the page to the stage as a year-long effort in the Dramatic Writing Program of HSU's Department of Theatre, Film & Dance.

Opening Night!

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The eighth annual Festival of Ten Minute Plays at HSU opened last night to a full house in the Gist Hall Theatre. Now the playwrights have a better idea where the laughs are, and where the audience oohs and ahs at revelations and dramatic moments.

Tonight, tomorrow and next weekend they'll get more chances to learn more, as audiences enjoy plays that compress the playwrights' observations, stories, experiments, energy and voice into just ten minutes, with the enthusiasm and skills of the actors and everyone involved in production . Get there early to get a seat, and enjoy!

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Rachael Voss, Joshua Stanfield Switzer and Missy Hopper in
"Mother Courageous," in the HSU Festival of Ten Minute Plays.
Photo credit: HSU Graphic Services.

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Ten minute plays can be comic, dramatic, realistic or fantastic and any combination of mood and attitude. For this year’s Festival, audiences will be treated to nine original theatre pieces by HSU students that range from a family dramas ( Brian Carroll’s Beethoven’s Song) and a struggle for identity (Kate Herr’s Ana and Me), to different approaches to romantic relationships ( Larry Mitchell’s Finding Star and Renee Carey’s Throwing Vinegar at the Moon ) and the flat-out comedy of Russell Zook’s The Unauthorized and Untrue Autobiography of a Sasquatch.

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Carter Howard, Ashley Mackin and Haley Becksted in
"Finding Stars"

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Two of the plays are linked to well-known writers. Emily McPeck’s Impulse adapts a story by Conrad Aiken, and Mother Courageous by Kato Buss satirizes Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage” (which was produced at HSU this year, with Buss playing a major role.)

Two plays deal with the topical concerns of war: My Best Recipe by Wendy Williams and the aforementioned “Mother Courageous.” Not That Simple by Justin Takata explores friendship with the help of magic realism.

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Rachael Voss and Missy Hopper

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“A good ten minute play captures a peak moment,” said Margaret Thomas Kelso, HSU Assistant Professor of Theatre who heads the dramatic writing program, and coordinates the annual Festival of Ten Minute Plays. “It’s highly intensified and very focused. It’s usually the moment of change in a story-- the climax.”

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Haley Becksted, Carter Howard and Ashley Mackin

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In presentation as well as the process of bringing these new works to the stage, the play’s the thing. “We don’t have elaborate sets or costumes. Everyone involved understands that the directors and actors serve the script. The script is primary,” Kelso said. “This is the heart of the process, and why it is so important. These are the essential skills that are needed to keep theatre alive. We need theatre that is still growing and reflecting our lives.”

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The Ten Minute playwrights: (back row) Renee Carney,
Justin Takata, Russell Zook; (middle) Emily McPeck,
Brian Carroll, Kate Herr, Wendy Williams; (front)
Larry Mitchell, Kato Bus.

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For student playwrights, The Festival of Ten Minute Plays is the culmination of a process that began in the fall. For directors and actors, it’s a production they’ve worked towards all semester. Now it’s time for the final contributors to take their seats: the audience.

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The playwrights' Evil Twins (see photo above for names.)

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The process usually begins with two courses in the fall: the play development workshop for upper class undergraduates and graduate students, and the introductory dramatic writing class. “During that time, students write and rewrite their scripts many times,” Margaret Kelso explained. “Around Thanksgiving, a team of three faculty members, including me, read and select plays for the Festival. Then we solicit directors who read the scripts and make their choices, and we match playwrights and directors.”

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Rachael Voss, Josh Switzer and Missy Hopper in
"Mother Courageous."

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“On the second day of spring semester, we have auditions for actors, and together with the playwrights and directors, we cast the plays. The playwrights continue to work on their scripts, and around the middle of the semester the directors start having rehearsals with the actors.” The development process for the playwrights continues, with the actors as active participants. As much as possible, Kelso stated, the process adheres to professional standards of play development. “A lot of universities don’t teach these skills,” she pointed out. “When our students go out into the world, they take these skills and this experience with them.”

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The process: Carter Howard and Ashley Mackin confer
with coordinator and dramatic writing teacher,
Margaret Kelso.

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But the process is not complete until the play meets an audience. Besides becoming participants in the development of these plays, audiences at the Festival in Gist Theatre will be the first to experience the fresh new work of today’s new voices, in the quick, surprising, compressed form of ten minute plays.

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Rachael Voss, Josh Switzer, Miss Hopper and Greagori Brown in "Mother Courageous"

Festival: The Plays

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Here’s a brief rundown of the 2006 Festival of Ten Minute Plays (in alphabetical order, by title):

Ana and Me
by Kate Herr

A young girl struggles with her anorexic alter ego.

Directed by Pete DeQuincy, featuring:
Emily Blanche (Ana)
Katie Pratt (Cara)
Larry Mitchell (Dad)

Beethoven’s Song
by Brian Carroll

Forced together in a hospital ward, an estranged uncle and nephew confront family issues.

Directed by Larry Mitchell, featuring:
Arnold D. Waddell (Sam)
Stephen Godwin (Corey)
Jasmine Barnes (Tina)

Not That Simple
by Justin Takata

A magical bump on the read allows two friends to discover more about each other than they ever imagined.

Directed by Saqib Keval, featuring: Ryan Hall
Brendan O’Loughlin

Finding Stars
by Larry Mitchell

A playful drama about awkwardness for a couple at the end of a date that’s compounded when one of them doesn't know the rules.

Directed by Erica Davie, featuring:
Carter Howard (Alex)
Ashley Mackin (Beatrice)
Haley Becksted (Jennifer)
Esme Williams (Miranda)

Impulse
by Emily McPeck

From a story by Conrad Aiken: a man mired in routine is tempted to act impulsively, despite the danger.

Directed by Joe Castro, featuring:
Sarah Daum [C]
Camden Hill-Rocha (A)
Alex Gradine (Michael)
Leslie Hundley (B)

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Ashley Mackin

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Mother Courageous
by Kato Buss

A satiric homage to Brecht, using music and humor to illuminate the hardships of war.

Directed by Renee Carney, featuring:
Missy Hopper (mother)
Larry Mitchell (father)
Rachael Voss (daughter)
Greagori Brown (recruiter)

My Best Recipe
by Wendy Williams

In a dramatic confrontation with moments of comedy, two mothers from opposite political perspectives face off in the Texas dust.

Directed by Kalindi Rogers, featuring:
Rachael Brink (Shelly)
Missy Hopper (Gloria)

Throwing Vinegar at the Moon
by Renee Carney

A touch of romantic comedy, as quirky characters turn a routine lunch into a matchmaking session.

Directed by Kato Buss, featuring:
Viva Soffian (Matilda)
Greta Welsh (Chelsea)
Erica Davie (Kristen)

The Unauthorized and Untrue Autobiography of a Sasquatch
by Russell Zook

Comedy about the confrontation of a reporter and Bigfoot meeting in the redwood forest.

Directed by Emily McPeck, featuring:
James Gibbons (Rod Dirk)
John Welsh (Sasquatch)

Festival Coordinator: Margaret Thomas Kelso
Producer: Russell Zook
Stage Manager: Sydney Carlisle

COMING SOON!

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Humboldt State University's annual Festival of Ten Minute Plays presents drama, comedy, dramedy, satire, magical realism and more, in the best of this year's ten minute plays written, directed and performed by HSU students. April 27-29 and May 4-6, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 8 pm., at the Gist Hall Theatre on the HSU campus. Admission is free to all at the door, but seating is limited. Coordinated by Margaret Kelso, produced by the HSU Department of Theatre, Film & Dance.

More information coming soon!