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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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