5th Annual Festival of One Acts
Featuring One Act Playwriting Competition Winners
This April, the Lourdes University Drama Society will present their 5th annual Festival of One Acts featuring the following one act plays:
A Problem with Friends by Janet Godsell
Controlling Interest by Wayne Rawley?
Dead Right by Elaine Jarvik?
The Fortune Cookie by Tuan Phan?
Inside the Department of the Exterior by Philip Hall?
It Sounds Like Science by Russell Weeks?
Love Birds by Rod McFadden
The Memory Box by Chris Swanson
Press Pray by Seth Freeman
?Love Birds, A Problem with Friends, The Memory Box and Press Play were the winners of the Drama Society’s One Act Playwriting Competition held last fall. The competition garnered international attention and received submissions from across the U.S. and Canada. ??Rod McFadden of Walnut Creek, California, was awarded first-place for his play, Love Birds, a tale of two strangers who learn that happiness shared is richer than happiness in solitude. Second-place playwright, Janet Godsell of Wellington, Nova Scotia, submitted A Problem with Friends which tells the story of an estranged young couple who admit to confiding their true feelings to their best friends rather than to each other.
Memory Box by Chris Swanson of Westerville, Ohio, tied for third-place and is a tale about an unbreakable friendship between two young girls set in the 1960’s. Press Play by Seth Freeman of Pacific Palisades, California, also took home third-place. His play depicts a desperate soul who prays for help and receives an unexpected response.
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Performances will be Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21 at 7 p.m., and Sunday, April 22 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 and there is no reserved seating. The Festival of One Acts will take place in the Ebeid Student Center located on the lower level of Delp Hall. For more information, contact Keith Ramsdell, Drama Society Advisor, at 419-517-8881.
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Organization Name: Lourdes College
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