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Tonight is Wednesday, February 4. It is only the second night of this four-day orgy, but according to HRDC Campus Liaison and Common Casting Week Coordinator Erik J. Salovaara '88, 500 to 600 actors have already stormed the two theaters to compete for a handful of choice parts...
...plays themselves--which Salovaara says have quadrupled in number over the past three years--run the gamut from the familiar to the never before seen. The HRDC famed trinity of Shakespeare, Shepard, and Stoppard is well-represented, as are the ranks of plays that have become movies, such as "Betrayal", "Deathtrap", "The Philadelphia Story", and "The Diary of (Not Cleared) Frank". There are also several more experimental works, including a few student-written plays. Judging by the sign-up sheets, the better-known plays attract the most actors...
Directed by Erik Salovaara...
...blame them? Director Salovaara made the strategic error of trying to produce this play in the round. He ends up, however, with too little space for his platforms, forcing the actors to scoot around furniture at the edges or break the illusion by stepping off and on the stage. And all for nought. A large couch blocks out a fourth of the audience during the play's second half. Badly focused lights blind another fourth. Choose your seats carefully for this...