February 13, 2004

The Announcement

Live from the the Announcement Meeting:
The house for the Rivals houses about 110 right now and its filled to 50-75% capacity with Masque members and onlookers. Actors, producers, directors and well wishers are in attendance and wait eagerly for the results.

This is a quick rundown of the events as they happen. There will be a full copy of the notes that Susan presented posted early into the weekend.

Susan: "I am happy to report that theatre is alive and well at WPI."

Susan: "Each and every play and the scenic design, which will be produced by Paul is loaded with the Malone WOW Factor."

The stats
41 plays & monologues submitted (down 6)
27 authors (6 down)
12 female (same)
16 male (5 down)
1 cowritten by men
4 scenic designs (2 down)
3 men designed (1 down)
1 female designed

themes
talking to yourself in mirror, money, campus buildings, money, 4th wall, money, flight announcements, money, eric, and money. fewer deaths and relationships than ever.

2 plays with same title, neither entered.
no pornography.
no morgan play.

2 plays of 22 pages in length made it in.
2 playwrights with 2 plays made it in.

At the end of the night, 11 plays were selected. 3 down.
8 playwrights (down 4), 4 new playwrights
5 students, 2 teachers (down 1), 3 alumns
8 male, 2 female (3 down)

3 plays with one word title.
65 roles just about
everyone who auditions will be cast.
largest cast is 13
smallest is 1

The plays:


  • We've Got Soul by David Hartman

  • It's Not Identity Theft If You Pay The Bills On Time by Cat Darensbourg

  • You're Never Alone by Ben Sandofsky

  • Entropy by Ben Sandofsky

  • Among Friends... by Peter James Miller

  • Captions by Michael J. Ciaraldi

  • Two Graves by Michael J. Ciaraldi

  • It's noon. Do you know where your gun is? by Nick Barnes

  • a Viking walks by by Karen Singh

  • Anomaly by Dean O'Donnell

  • A Slice of Grief (a short play in 5 stages) by Chris Cenotti

Posted by jpabad at February 13, 2004 05:13 PM