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NEWS

For theatre teachers seeking summer professional development in theatre: The Elizabeth Francis Theater Teacher Institute, July 16 – July 19, 2008. Download program description (PDF). Download application (MS Word).
Charleston Stage Company's production of The Exonerated won the Community Theatre Festival at the Southeastern Theatre Conference in March, 2008 at Chattanooga, TN. Its director, Susan Marrash-Minnerly won the award for Best Director. Cast members John Halstead, Joe Miller, and Will Taylor received honors for Excellence in Acting, and the entire cast was praised with an award for Best Ensemble. The Exonerated had previously taken top honors at the WVTC's Community Theatre Festival in November, 2007.
West Virginia was well-represented at this year’s SETC convention. MIKE MURPHY from Marshall University won the prestigious Suzanne M. Davis Memorial Award for his extraordinary service to theatre in West Virginia and the entire region! Congratulations Mike!

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"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers."

Anne Bogart

"Theatre can disseminate ideas, it can educate even the miseducated, because it is art – and all art reaches across that divide that makes order out of chaos, and embraces the truth that overwhelms with its presence and connects man to something larger than himself and his imagination. I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to heal, its power to hold the mirror as 'twere up to nature, its power to uncover the truths we wrestle with from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities. All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully. We who are capable of those noble pursuits should challenge the melancholy and barbaric, to bring the light of angelic grace, peace, prosperity and the unencumbered pursuit of happiness to the ground on which we all stand."

August Wilson, playwright

“[Theatre] has the right to say what has been said and even what has not been said in a way that belongs to us, a way that is immediate and direct, corresponding to present modes of feeling, and understandable to everyone…And if for example a contemporary public does not understand Oedipus Rex, I shall make bold to say that it is the fault of Oedipus Rex and not of the public.”

Antonin Artaud

“You put me in Macbeth and Carmen Jones
And all kinds of Swing Mikados
And in everything but what’s about me –
But someday somebody’ll
Stand up and talk about me.
And write about me –
Black and beautiful –
And sing about me.
And put on plays about me!
I reckon it’ll be
Me Myself!
Yes, it’ll be me!”

Langston Hughes

“Two plays were written about Dorothy Parker – one by George Oppenheimer and the other by Ruth Gordon. Mrs. Parker once commented, ‘Now, I suppose, if I ever wrote a play about myself I’d be sued for plagiarism.'"

Peter Hay

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