The student one-act plays are highly anticipated every year, as a venue for student directors and actors to showcase their talents in a broad array of plays and topics. This year the production includes three one-act plays, completely directed, acted and tech-supported by students.
Henry Claudy (I) is directing for the second time, and he has chosen the play “Face Divided” by Edward Allan Baker. The drama takes place in a Providence emergency room, where a mother brings her injured young daughter, but questions arise about the injury when the father arrives. Henry says most of his Milton theater experiences focused on comedy, so he wanted to try something different.
“I love directing,” says Henry. “A lot of the necessary skills apply to life outside the theater. I love running the auditions. It’s fun finding a scene for the actors and seeing how they choose to perform it. This play contains some really challenging scenes, especially between the husband and wife.”
Alex Chen (II) is directing “English Made Simple” by David Ives. “I chose the play because it is a funny, short play about the little details of English conversation. A guy and a girl meet at a party and proceed to have a standard conversation. However, as the play progresses, the audience is made aware of their true history. A third character, who acts more like a teacher, shares with the audience the ways that English speech works, and what generally meaningless small talk actually means. I love how the play starts out like an instructional video, teaching viewers how to chat with others and ends up with a couple with a newfound love for each other.”
Dorsey Glew (II) is directing “Yesterday” by Colin Campbell Clements. “I chose the play because it was written in the 1920s, so I could play with the time period and with this story. The actors and director can play with the characters’ many nuances.”
You can enjoy this weekend’s one-act plays in the Studio Theatre on Thursday, February 23, and Friday, February 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, February 25 at 7 p.m.