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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2007
DRAMA COMPETITION
Playwrights to compete in Iowa
BY BETHANY BUNCH
Three playwrights from the University of Kansas have four plays
competing for awards at a festival next week in Ames, Iowa.
Emily Laut,
2005 graduate,
Tim Macy,
Topeka graduate
student, and
Whitney Reece
Rowland, Olathe
Laut
junior, are the three playwrights representing the University at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
Their productions will be considered for an all expenses paid trip to the national festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., this spring.
"Having a staged reading at KCACTF will be exciting. I anticipate a great mixing and expanding
of ideas that will make me want to write more." Laut said.
Paul Lim, professor of English, founded the English Alternative Theatre in 1989 to produce student plays. Since then, 20 KU playwrights, whose plays were presented by the theater, have won awards at various levels of competitions sponsored by the festival.
Laut wrote her play, "Painting the Town," for Lim's Playwriting I class. Lim gives all of his students the chance to submit their plays to the festival.
"He bends over backwards to help students with the submission process because he is very excited to show student-written drama." Laud said.
Rowland
Lau's play and Rowland's "Suicide by Punchbowl" are two of six 10-
minute plays chosen to be presented as staged readings at the festival.
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Macy's "Leaves of Words" is based on real events surrounding the disappearance of Randy Leach who was
last seen at a pre-
graduation party
April 15, 1988,
in Linwood.
The play was presented
this past October
by the English
Alternative
Theatre. Lim
said Macys's play
Macy
generated a lot of publicity going into the festival.
Macy researched the event for a year and spent six to eight months writing the play. Lim said the play was revised four or five times and that Macy continued to edit while the play was in rehearsal.
"Leaves of Words" is competing for the Michael Kanin National Student Playwright Award and the
David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award.
"Lights Fade, Curtain," a one-act play, also by Rowland, is about a playwright returning home to visit his dying mother, while his family is concerned that he has come back to use them as characters in his next play.
Macy's "Leaves of Words" will have a benefit performance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Lawrence Arts Center, 9th and New Hampshire streets, before leaving Sunday for Ames.
"We're hoping people who didn't get to see the play in October will be able to before we leave for the festival in Iowa," Lim said.
— Edited by Carissa Pedigo
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The University of Kansas Athletics Department plans to celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Saturday. The Athletics Department will hold a field day at 5:30 p.m. at the Horeisi Family Athletics Center before the women's basketball game against Iowa State, a luncheon for former KU student athletes before the game and a halftime ceremony for the former student athletes are planned.
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The Athletics Department also held an essay contest for local sixth-grade students. The students were required to write about a 'hero', which was a woman who inspired them to be active in sports and positively impacted their lives. A Schwegler Elementary student won the contest and two students from Hillcrest Elementary tied for second. These students and their classmates were invited to participate in the field day. Anderson said about 75 elementary students will participate in the field day. It is used as an opportunity for students to do something they might not normally do.
Anderson said. The 10 scholarship sports are basketball, cross country, golf, rowing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field and volleyball. Elementary students participating in the event will be doing activities related to this sports.
Kathy Rose-Mockry, program director for the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, helped publicize the event. She said she hoped this year's events would encourage young women to attend more games and cheer on current women.
Field day, ceremony to recognize athletes
National Girls and Women in Sports day began in 1987, but this was only the second year the University had recognized it. According to the official National Girls and Women in Sports Web site, it was started in remembrance of Flo Hyman, a volleyball player who died because of a heart problem in 1986. Hyman was a three-time All-American at the University of Houston and captain of the 1984 US Olympics team.
About 50 current student athletes representing all 10 women's scholarship sports will lead the field day,
The day is celebrated nationally on Feb. 7, but the Athletics Department chose Saturday for the event because it was the closest weekend home game to the seventh. This would also allow for more elementary students to attend.
Kansan staff writer Kyle Carter can be contacted at kcarter@kansan. com.
Edited by James Pinick
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