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The Clarion \ October 1,2014
Theatre students open with comedy double-feature
By Jule Hermann
staff Writer
The BC theatre students will open the Fall
2014 semester with a comedy double-feature
of two one-act plays: “The Actor’s Nightmare,”
by Tony Award winning playwright, Christopher
Durang, and “The Actor Wakes,” by BC Theatre
faculty member Brandon Smith. Sophomore Josh
Goldstein is in the lead role for both plays, while
Hannah Leonard, Karen Bennett, Raquan Edwards,
John Pate, and Caitlin Hefner form an ensemble of
supporting roles.
“The Actor’s Nightmare” is a play about a man
who finds himself in a theatre just minutes before
he must appear onstage in a play he has never
rehearsed. All the other actors greet him using
names he does not recognize to be his own. The
stage manager rushes him to get into costume, and
the curtain opens to a scene from Noel Coward’s
Olivier nominated play, “Private Lives.” While
George remembers himself to be an accountant, he
makes his best attempts to be an actor, delivering
lines he has never learned—or at least responding
to the questions asked by the actors onstage with
him.
Following the bizarre logic of dreams, George
is ricocheted through something of a pinball
machine of plays throughout the canon of theatre
history, including plays by Shakespeare, Samuel
Beckett, and finally “A Man for All Seasons,” in
which he plays Sir Thomas More moments before
his execution by axe on the chopping block at the
Tower of London.
Previously, George’s survival onstage seemed to
depend upon his efforts to speak his best guess at
the lines in the play. Now his death seems imminent
if he says the line that all the other exasperated
actors onstage demand in order to bring the play
within the play to its conclusion.
“The Actor Wakes” might have been titled “The
Actor’s Day Job,” as it explores a classic set-up of
an actor interviewing for an office temp job—in
this case, at a telemarketing call center. However,
it seems that the interview process has many more
surprises to offer Jorge than one might expect.
The receptionist seems interested in getting
into his pants or starting a serious relationship, his
interviewer resorts to extreme measures to teach
him the art of telemarketing, and Jorge discovers
how easy it is to get tangled up in the world of
workplace compromises, which might actually be
a vortex of terrors.
“The Actor’s Nightmare” and “The Actor Wakes”
will be performed in the refurbished Ingram
Auditorium in Dunham Music Center.
“I think BC students and faculty will be interested
in seeing a fully realized theatrical production
staged in Ingram for the first time in a long while
—including lighting and set design by Andrea
Boccanfuso, costumes by Ida Bostian, and sound
design by student Josh Goldstein,” says Catherina
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new chef after resignation
Staff of Pioneer College Caterers arrived at
Myers Dining Hall Monday to discover that their
chef had unexpectedly resigned.
Fortunately, the company was in the process of
interviewing for another position, and manage
ment simply widened the scope of the interviews
to include a replacement for the chef position,
BC food service director Jonathan Craven told
The Clarion.
As management works to find a replacement,
students have no cause for concern about the qual
ity of the food service. Craven said. The cooks
are actually responsible for preparing meals, not
the chef, he said.
Popular professor leaving BC
This week. Professor John Snodgrass an
nounced to his classes that he will not be return
ing next year. Details to come.
Mr. Brevard canceled
Mr. Brevard, an event originally organized
by CAB President Rachael Barrows, has been
canceled for this semester.
Student applies for
prestigious grant
Senior Michael St. Marie is in the process of
applying for a Fulbright National Geographic
Digital Storytelling Fellowship. More details
will be featured in a future issue.
Jones
continued from page 2
She hopes to help students develop these skills by
engaging with the library staff and with the plethora
of resources the library contains.
“I’ll interview people,” she said. “If I walk
around and ask you, ‘Hey, what’s your favorite
thing in the library?’ That’s an interview.
“The idea is to be more concerned with student
use. We’re not a warehouse of books. We’re a place
for people to find information of all kinds and for
us to help them learn how to do that,” Jones said
“Although it has evolved over time, my vision has
always been that the most important people are the
people who use the library.”
Barricklow, who is directing both plays.
“Last year’s BC Theatre productions included
three heavy-hitting, dark dramas, so we hope
to offer some light, yet well-crafted, comedic
entertainment to the community this fall!”
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