{"id":8979,"date":"2018-12-01T02:31:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T10:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2018-12-01T02:31:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T10:31:26","slug":"one-acts-directed-by-women-acted-by-women-written-by-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/one-acts-directed-by-women-acted-by-women-written-by-women\/","title":{"rendered":"One Acts: Directed by women, acted by women, written by women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chrys Weedon<\/strong> | Entertainment Editor<\/span><\/p>\n

On Nov. 19, in a small, black-box type room in the Math and Nursing building, a handful of ten-minute plays were showcased. Audience members sat in a semi-circle, humming in anticipation to see the four ten-minute plays being performed: \u201cKoffee,\u201d \u201cThe Role of Della,\u201d \u201cBending Over Backwards\u201d and \u201cIs It Me?\u201d All of the plays were directed by students, all of which were women; all the actresses were women as well. Additionally, two of the short plays were written by their student-directors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Madeline Weinstein, a junior in the Western theatre program, was featured in \u201cKoffee\u201d and \u201cThe Role of Della.\u201d <\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cMy favorite part was watching myself and the other actresses around me grow into their roles,\u201d said Weinstein, \u201cwe started off basic and then gradually melded more into our characters and created our own versions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cKoffee\u201d was a short vignette into the life of a woman having a heated, posthumous conversation with a friend from high school who recently died in a car accident.<\/span><\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Role of Della,\u201d an actress gets put through the wringer in an audition by a ruthless director, who is later revealed to be an imposter attempting to steal her acting technique.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIs It Me?\u201d showed a scene of two women waiting in a lobby to be called in for an interview. The audience hears every thought in the women\u2019s heads: sizing each other up, judging each other, putting themselves down, wondering who forgot to put on deodorant.<\/span><\/p>\n

The scene of \u201cBending Over Backwards\u201d showed a young writer pitching a TV show to her zanny and sexually explicit boss who had a knack for acting out various positions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSince the shows are only 10 minutes, they didn\u2019t require much rehearsal,\u201d said Weinstein of the preparation process. \u201cBecause I was in two shows, I had double the rehearsal, but even then, they were more fun and chill rather than worrisome and scary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contact the author at howlentertainment@wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chrys Weedon | Entertainment Editor On Nov. 19, in a small, black-box type room in the Math and Nursing building, a handful of ten-minute plays were showcased. Audience members sat in a semi-circle, humming in anticipation to see the four ten-minute plays being performed: \u201cKoffee,\u201d \u201cThe Role of Della,\u201d \u201cBending Over Backwards\u201d and \u201cIs It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":8951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}