CSC traveling theatre workshop plans final performance
Chadron State College's Children's Theatre Workshop class will present its touring production of the play "Stage Magic" for Chadron elementary and middle school students at Memorial Hall on Friday, April 30, at 1:30 p.m.
The class has presented the production in elementary schools throughout northwest Nebraska each Friday in April, with showings in two communities per day.
The group completed its traveling schedule Friday, April 23, with showings in Hemingford and Alliance. It also traveled to Hay Springs, Gordon, Crawford and Harrison this spring. At each of the locations, the students had to assemble and disassemble the set and lighting, as well as perform.
The production's director, Roger Mays, said the rigorous schedule of two shows at different locations per day helps students learn what it takes to work for commercial touring theatres.
"If a traveling theatre company can schedule two or three performances in a day to make more money, they'll do it," Mays said.
Mays said "Stage Magic" is a highly educational and entertaining production that tells the story of five young actors and their struggle to cast, rehearse and finally perform their own "fractured fairy tale" version of Peter Rabbit. The play was written by Marie Mertzinger.
The public is invited to attend the presentation at Memorial Hall free of charge, but Mays said space may be limited because of the many elementary school students who have been invited.
Students involved in the course are Karin Baca, Pine Ridge, S.D.; Heath Draney, Omaha; Danny Giffee, Dawson; Brian Griffith, Chadron; Phil Lockwood, Chadron; Robert Maurer, Dix; Kalyn Mead, Wood River; Lars Monson, Benkelman; Crystal Neitzel, Gregory, S.D.; Brian Shafer, Ord; Pam Smith, Chadron; Elisabeth Saunders, Gillette, Wyo.
The course is being sponsored in part by the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Alliance for Arts Education.
Category: Campus News, Theatre