University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 7, 1992
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Performing in one of four plays put on by the English Alternative Theatre are Dainn inches, (left), Greenville, Calf.
senior, Chris Godfrey, Merriam sophomore, and Jeremy Plummer, Raytown, Town, somphore.
Theater group stages own 'Final Four'
By Ranjit Arab
Kansan staff writer
As millions across the nation tuned into the Duke-Michigan championship basketball game yesterday, about 100 people in Lawrence chose to attend another "Final Four" — a collection of plays performed by the English Alternative Theatre.
Paul Lim, assistant professor of English and director of the theater, said he chose to showcase four plays written by students in the introductory playwriting course he taught last semester.
The four plays were performed Saturday and Sunday — two on each day
- at Downs Auditorium in Dyche Hall.
Each night, members of the audience voted on their favorite play. The two finalists were performed last night.
The two plays in the final round were "Boy-Talk, Or. I Fraternally Regard You," written by Daniel Casey, Lawrence senior; and "Footprints in the Snow," written by Michael Brandt, Lawrence senior.
"The Virtue of Enoughness," by Melinda Weir, Iowa City, Iowa, senior; and "Chastity's Birthday," by Kim Hewett, Silver Lake senior, also were performed during the weekend.
Lim said that he was impressed with six of the plays written by students last semester but that he chose the four best and chose for the one atest staged reading format.
He said he liked the variety of subject matters covered in the plays.
Themes such as suicide were common in all four plays but handled different themes.
"A lot of young people have lost faith in the political machine," he said. "Maybe that is why suicide is popping up as a metaphor."
Lim said he did not view the event as a competition.
Lim said the two playwrights in the final round received $50 checks and the two runners-up received $25.
Brandt said his play was about a col-
He said more people attended than he expected.
Casey said his play was based on observations of male friendships.
David Innes, Lawrence junior, was an actor in both performances. Heasid he was impressed with the quality of the student-written plays.
"I thought both of them were as good as anything I had performed for real," he said.
Bonnie Cauble, College Station,
Texas, freshman, acted in Brandi's
play. She said she identified with the
student addressed by the student play-widt
"I connected with it better because it was written by someone my own age," she said.
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