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Summer Theater Lab, 2018: The Frost & Dodd Student Play Festival

Posted on June 10, 2018 by Milena Zuccotti

  • (Left to right): One-act plays written by Frost Competition winners Tess McGuinness '18 and Savannah Miller '21 and Dodd Competition winner Jennifer West '21 will be performed July 27-29.

THE FROST & DODD STUDENT PLAY FESTIVAL

July 27 @ 8:00 pm
July 28 @ 8:00 pm
July 29 @ 4:00 pm & 8:00 pm
The Bentley Theater

$3 General Admission; available at the HOP Box Office

The culmination of the 91st annual Frost Student Playwriting Competition and the 43rd annual Ruth & Loring Dodd Student Playwriting Competition. Student-written one-act plays will be performed in repertory over the course of the July 27-29 weekend. The complete performance schedule is listed below; please click here for more information about the Frost & Dodd Competitions, or for biographies of the winning playwrights.

FIRST YEAR
by Jennifer West '20
Friday July 27 @ 8:00 pm
Sunday July 29 @ 8:00 PM
A Fully-Produced Production
Peter Hackett, director

A musical in one act, First Year follows a freshman student as she experiences the twists and turns of life at fictional Ivylane College.

SIGH NO MORE
by Tess McGuinness '18
Saturday July 28 @ 8:00 pm
Sunday July 29 @ 4:00 PM
A Staged Reading Performance
Jamie Horton, director

A group of regional theater actors perform a production of Much Ado About Nothing while engaging in a Shakespearian comedy of their own backstage - one filled with love triangles, mistaken identities, betrayals and triumphs.

THE HOUSE
by Savannah Miller '21
Saturday July 28 @ 8:00 pm
Sunday July 29 @ 4:00 PM
A Staged Reading Performance
Jamie Horton, director

Brothers must come to terms with their family history during the sale of their childhood home. A lesson in where we come from and how it can define us.