[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
The Student Directed One Acts festival returns for Western\u2019s theatre program<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Camille Lenning<\/strong> | Entertainment Editor<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2022\/04\/Screenshot_20220412-180406.png” title_text=”Screenshot_20220412-180406″ _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_divider color=”#8c8c8c” divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”8px” _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” width=”90%” module_alignment=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Contact the author at howlentertainment@wou.edu\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Student Directed One Acts Festival returns April 14 \u2013 16 and will showcase the directorial talents in Western\u2019s theatre program. The wide array of genres displayed this year is a testament to the creativity of these seven student directors and actors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Thursday night will kick off the one-acts festival, where four of the seven students\u2019 plays will debut.<\/span><\/p>\n Junior theater major Grace Porter is among those premiering their plays on opening night. \u201cHiding in Flowers,\u201d written by playwright Roni Ragone, will feature one female and one nonbinary character, and the performance focuses on their relationship when \u201ca charcter comes out, but not as what you would think,\u201d said Porter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Another play in the Thursday lineup is \u201cRough Edge\u201d by Sara Jean Accuardi, directed by senior education and theater major Braden Pippert. Set in 1994 at the Clackamas Town Center Mall months after the Tonya Harding scandal, two frozen yogurt shop employees discuss the infamous crime.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited to show off what (the cast) has done and what I\u2019ve kind of put together,\u201d Pippert said of the show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sophomore theater major Wyatt R. King will be joining Porter and Pippert on Thursday night, with Julia Specht\u2019s play, \u201ci believe in a Republic in which money has a great deal to say.\u201d This show is a satirical take on economic class in America.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s this idea of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, and this play kind of pokes fun at this idea because people who don\u2019t even own boots are supposed to pull themselves up by these bootstraps,\u201d King said.<\/span><\/p>\n Also premiering on Thursday is Pendleton King\u2019s play, titled \u201cCocaine\u201d and directed by senior theater major Andres Avila. The plot centers on two characters, a former boxer and a prostitute, as they deal with poverty, withdrawls and the threat of homelessness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Friday night showing will feature the remaining three students, including sophomore theater education major Ally Warner directing \u201cOvertones\u201d by playwright Alice Gerstenberg. In this play, two gentlewomen must temper their agressive alter-egos, or inner thoughts in physical form, as they interact with each other.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Also on Friday, junior theater education major Mere Butler is directing \u201cBride Before a Fall,\u201d by Robert Scott. A dark humor piece, this play focuses on Victor and his mistress Madelyn, who are attempting to kill Victor\u2019s rich wife for her fortune. Unfortunately, she seems to be unkillable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sarah Pitz, a senior actor training major, will be directing fellow Western student Sara Wright\u2019s play, \u201cWoman Slay.\u201d A comedic take on the \u201cstrong female lead\u201d trope, the performance will feature a clueless heroine and an increasingly frustrated narrator.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Thursday one-acts will have a second round of performances on Saturday April 16 at 7:30 p.m., and the Friday shows will have theirs the same day at 2 p.m. in Rice Auditorium, room 113. 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