Ventura College Theatre presents the Spring 2008 Student One-Act Play Festival. The Festival includes four student-directed one-act plays, all presented together as one program. The productions are Wedding Duet by Lauren Wilson, directed by TJ Mora; The Whole Shebang by Rich Orloff, directed by Mike Johnson; What She Found There by John Glore, directed by Michael Byrne; and The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, written by Tom Stoppard, directed by Aaron Manuyag. Tickets are $7.00 general admission and $5.00 for students, staff, and seniors, and are available at the theatre prior to each performance.
The One-Act Play Festival will be presented in the Ventura College Mainstage and Circus Theatres on Friday and Saturday, February 22 and 23 at 8pm, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 28, 29 and March 1 at 8pm, and a matinee on Sunday, March 2 at 3pm. The final dress rehearsal, Thursday evening February 21 at 8:00 pm, is free and open to the public.
Wedding Duet: Three hours after their wedding, a newlywed couple attempts to cross the “threshold” when the groom drops the bride. The bride believes that dropping her was an omen and begins questioning their marriage, causing a hilarious scene right in the hallway of their honeymoon suite.
The Whole Shebang: In another dimension, a nervous grad student must defend her ambitious master’s thesis: the creation of our universe. Things go downhill when a bitter, married couple from Dayton, Ohio, are brought in as evidence of what exactly God hath wrought.
What She Found There: When Alice went through the looking glass, her mirror image, Celia, entered our world. Lou is from New York. Once they connect, many dark secrets are revealed and a magical bond is formed!
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet: Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the most quoted works of the English language. In The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, Tom Stoppard condenses the 3-hour tragedy into 15 hilarious minutes utilizing all the most famous lines from the play.
For more information please call Ventura College at 805-654-6462 or contact Professor Judy Garey at 805-654-6400 ext. 3236, or by email at jgarey@vcccd.edu. |
