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DECEMBER 6. 2000 - WCC CAMPUS VOICE 17
Kathy Myers, left, shows Theatre Appreciation
classmate Jennifer Bames the. autographed copy of
’W;t" Myers received from the playwright Margaret
Edison. PHOTO: CHRISTA FRYAR
Student goes directly to source
By JENNIFER L, BARNES
Few students have gone as
far as Kathy Myers in doing
research for a class project.
For Rosalyn Lomax’s
Theatre Appreciation class,
each student has to make a
presentation on a play.
Myers, once a long distance
truck driver who is now
taking Drama as an elective in
her criminology justice major,
chose to present Margaret
Edison’s W;t.
Myers said she chose this
play because it was the first
one mentioned in the book.
Though she didn’t think
much about picking a
particular play, Myers put a
lot of extra effort and thought
into the research of the play.
On September 29^^, she
traveled to the historical
Barter Theater in Abingdon,
VA, the second oldest
working theater in the United
States.
By far, the most interesting
source in Myers’ research of
W:t was the playwright
herself. Myers learned that
Edison i?a kindergarten
teacher in Atlanta. One day
the idea just struck her. What
if she could interview Edison
via telephone?
Myers decided to ask ^
information for Margaret
Edison’s home phone. The
nervous Myers placed a call to
Edison.
The student and playwright
had an interesting chat about
W;t. When Myers asked
Edison why she wrote the
play, Edison told her the story
needed to be told and
someone had to write it.
W;t is about a professor of
century literature who is
dying from cancer. In fact,
this production is the first to
present the trials of a cancer
patient'on stage.
Myers says the play really
struck her because cancer is
not selective and can strike
anyone.
The professor is a John
Donne scholar, and the play’s
title honors Donne’s use of
the semicolon.
As well as agreeing to the
interview, the playwright sent
Myers an autographed script
from the play. In return,
Myers sent a copy of all her
research to Edison.
The 2 have since been
corresponding and plan to
meet one day.
Chorus
from page 16
Chris White had the
spotlight on “Joy” (with “Joy
to the World”), and Carolyn
Cissel soloed on “The Jesus
Gift.”
The familiar “Silent Night”
was performed next, with
Cullen Jarman as soloist.
To wrap up the evening^s
festivities, percussionists Curl
and Tim Heath accompanied
the chorus in Benjamin
Harlan’s “African Alleluiah.”
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