By Samantha Connelly and Gabi Pallarez.
Seven seniors in the theater department are directing shows for free admission, which will perform next Friday, May 5, at 7 p.m.
“The shows are really fun and really goofy,” Hope Fambrough said. “You just get to see what students can do with directing shows.”
Every senior has their own play they picked, cut, or wrote. Shows include the Liberated cinderella directed by Mallory Wildman, a play written by Rex Stephenson that’s a comedic retelling of the folktale Cinderella, and this version involves a sassy Cinderella who wishes to avoid marrying “Prince Pimple of Acne” and instead wishes to escape her destiny. Another show is Sordid Lives by Del Shores directed by Anicia Salyers.
“It’s about these 4 Southern women after a death in their town,” Salyers said. “I wanted to do it because my cousin wrote it, so it means a lot to me that I get to do something that he wrote.”
Xandra Tanner is directing “10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse”, written by Don Zolidis. This show is a comedy featuring two narrators sharing their favorite ways to best survive a zombie apocalypse. There are four survivors who portray the 10 methods, Sam, Jimmy, Susan, and Christy. Fambrough is directing a play titled Cut by Ed Monk.
“Basically it’s a play within a play, and the actors in the play are trying to figure out who the real director is,” Fambrough said. “It’s really funny and it’s very confusing at times but I love directing.”
Another show is Love and Information, directed by Ava Walters. In this fast moving kaleidoscope, an ensemble of characters try to make sense of what they know through a variety of scenes that reflect what it feels like to be out of touch, have too much information, and everything in between. Someone tells a secret. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone tells a bad ghost story. Someone forgot. Someone can’t feel pain. And Someone’s never felt like this before. Owen Horn wrote his very own play, entitled “Can I get uh romantic comedy?”
“It’s just a classic little love triangle story with a little twist that you’ll have to see in person,” Horn said. “I wrote it because I spent a lot of time looking at different plays and a lot of them were either not funny or funny and very vulgar. So I was like ‘What if I wrote my own?’, because I felt like I could make something that is funny and appropriate.”
Lastly Squirrel Girl goes to college: a squirrel girl play by Karen Zacarías is directed by Samantha Connelly. This comedic play follows marvel superhero Squirrel Girl as she navigates new college life, self acceptance, and overcoming fears. But as she’s making new friends a suspicious substitute teacher, MODOC, arrives to switch things up.
“People should come see the shows because it’ll be awesome and funny, hopefully,” Horn said, “It’s going to be a good time.”
