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Kinkaid students tackle one-act plays
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| Kinkaid student directors are Harrison Harvey (left), Rachel McBath, and Luke Loftin. Not pictured is Alicia Gaber. |
The Kinkaid School’s Acting Company students make their directorial debut this weekend with two thought-provoking one-act plays.
Seniors Luke Loftin and Rachel McBath present “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre. This powerful one-act play makes clear that hell is not the bother of other people; it is other people who see us as we really are.
In Sartre's view, the decisions we make in life are recorded and stored behind the closed doors of our social veneer. Our character is comprised of myriad choices between good and evil made during our lifetime. In the last analysis, who we are is the sum total of all of our actions, as determined by our own free will.
“No Exit” introduces us to three finished, fully formed souls in the process of facing who they ended up being.
“Hell is other people” is the standard superficial explanation for the meaning of “Jean-Paul Sartre's ”No Exit”.
“Women and Wallace” by Jonathan Marc Sherman is directed by junior Alicia Gaber. Her assistant director is junior Harrison Harvey.
“Women and Wallace” is a dark comedy about the psychic effects of a mother's suicide on her adoring son. We see the title character from 6 to 18 years old (played at all ages by Andrew Edison), as he emerges from his embitterment to face the world - and the women who are irresistibly drawn to him.
In other hands, Wallace could have turned into a Norman Bates. However, the author is far more interested in the humorous absurdities of Wallace's sad story. He has a gift for acerbic, self-mocking dialogue, and sometimes he tries too hard to be clever. At the same time, he has a clear focus on the character's confusion of identity (mama's boy or ladies' man?).
The cast of the two plays include John Cheesman, Skylar Dabbar, Nick DeArman, Andrew Edison, Madison Leibman, Gillian Levy, Haley Lockwood, Adelaide Lummis, Sarah Powell, Erica Porter, Ramya Subramani, and Jamie Westendarp.
Show times are Friday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 7, at 2 p.m. at the Kinkaid Black Theater. Tickets are $10 and go on sale at the Kinakid Box Office Friday December 5 at 9:45am. They can also be purchased one hour before the beginning of each show.
Both shows are appropriate for Upper School students and adults only.
Seniors Luke Loftin and Rachel McBath present “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre. This powerful one-act play makes clear that hell is not the bother of other people; it is other people who see us as we really are.
In Sartre's view, the decisions we make in life are recorded and stored behind the closed doors of our social veneer. Our character is comprised of myriad choices between good and evil made during our lifetime. In the last analysis, who we are is the sum total of all of our actions, as determined by our own free will.
“No Exit” introduces us to three finished, fully formed souls in the process of facing who they ended up being.
“Hell is other people” is the standard superficial explanation for the meaning of “Jean-Paul Sartre's ”No Exit”.
“Women and Wallace” by Jonathan Marc Sherman is directed by junior Alicia Gaber. Her assistant director is junior Harrison Harvey.
“Women and Wallace” is a dark comedy about the psychic effects of a mother's suicide on her adoring son. We see the title character from 6 to 18 years old (played at all ages by Andrew Edison), as he emerges from his embitterment to face the world - and the women who are irresistibly drawn to him.
In other hands, Wallace could have turned into a Norman Bates. However, the author is far more interested in the humorous absurdities of Wallace's sad story. He has a gift for acerbic, self-mocking dialogue, and sometimes he tries too hard to be clever. At the same time, he has a clear focus on the character's confusion of identity (mama's boy or ladies' man?).
The cast of the two plays include John Cheesman, Skylar Dabbar, Nick DeArman, Andrew Edison, Madison Leibman, Gillian Levy, Haley Lockwood, Adelaide Lummis, Sarah Powell, Erica Porter, Ramya Subramani, and Jamie Westendarp.
Show times are Friday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 7, at 2 p.m. at the Kinkaid Black Theater. Tickets are $10 and go on sale at the Kinakid Box Office Friday December 5 at 9:45am. They can also be purchased one hour before the beginning of each show.
Both shows are appropriate for Upper School students and adults only.
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