By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 1-15-09
GREENSBORO, N.C. – UNCG will play host to 750-1,000 students and faculty members from across the southeast for the 2009 Region IV Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) Tuesday, Feb. 3, through Sunday, Feb. 8.
“The Revenger’s Tragedy,” directed by Jim Wren, a UNCG theater professor, is among a handful of college theater productions invited by a regional selection committee. Wren and his writing partner, Joe Sturgeon, re-imagined Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean tale as a bloody homage to female action thrillers.
“You draw the cream of the crop,” said Jim Fisher, head of UNCG’s theater department. “And it’s a great recruiting opportunity to attract theater students interested in graduate study.”
Through state, regional, and national festivals, KCACTF participants celebrate the creative process, see one another's work, and share experiences and insights. The KCACTF honors excellence of overall production and offers students individual recognition through awards and scholarships in playwriting, acting, criticism, directing and design.
The national festival takes place in Washington, D.C., in April, and selected regional productions and performers will be invited. Region IV includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
John Wolf, the UNCG theater professor charged with coordinating the event, says the festival’s scope makes it an exciting but exhausting undertaking. “We go from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. for five days then collapse.”
Schedule of productions is as follows:
• “Revenger's Tragedy”, UNCG—Wednesday , 8:30 p.m., Aycock Auditorium
• “Our Belongings,” Berea College—Thursday, noon, Aycock Auditorium
• “Our Fathers,” Middle Tennessee State University—Thursday , noon, Aycock Auditorium
• “The Mind's I,” College of Charleston—Thursday, 8:30 p.m., Aycock Auditorium
• “Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill,” Tennessee State University—Friday, 8:30 p.m., Aycock Auditorium
• “The Cook,” Florida International University—Friday, noon, Aycock Auditorium
• “Marisol,” University of Central Florida—Saturday , 8:30 p.m., Aycock Auditorium
• “A Lesson Before Dying, ” Troy University—Saturday, noon, Aycock Auditorium
• “Saviors: A Modern Day Parable, ” University of Central Florida—Schedule TBA, Brown Theatre
General admission tickets for the invited productions are available through the University Box Office, which reopens Jan. 20. All tickets are $10, available through the box office at (336) 334-4849.
