Tim Maples Directing In Annual Student One-Acts at Culver-Stockton College

2012 Nov 26

Culver-Stockton is hosting "A Weekend of One-Acts," Dec. 8 and 9 in the Mabee Black Box Theatre, located in the Robert W. Brown Performing Arts Center. For the "One-Acts," upper-class students in Culver-Stockton College's drama program take the director's chair to examine plays at the edge of dramatic expression. This is a Culver-Stockton tradition, dating back to the 1930's when students competed for the Mahan Awards. Though students no longer compete for a winner, the tradition of the student-directed plays lives on. As part of experiential learning at C-SC, the eight students will take responsibility for all aspects of the show as each chooses a play, casts performers and crew and takes charge of directing and producing his or her chosen work.

Tim Maples, senior musical theatre major from Chicago, Ill., is directing "Sonny DeRee's Life Flashes Before his Eyes", written by Bill Bozzone. The play is about Sonny DeRee, a middle-aged man who has found himself in a pickle. He owes $9,000 to a chain saw-carrying hit man, who used to work at a sandwich shop. After trying to contact anyone that he has come into contact with in his life, his quirky mother, Emma, arrives and gives him an opportunity to earn the money. But it will not come easily

The student productions are grouped into two groups, with both groups having an afternoon and evening performance. Group A appears at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8 and 7:30 Sunday, Dec. 9. Group B takes the stage at 7:30 on Dec. 8 and 3 p.m. on Dec. 9. Some one-act plays include topics and language appropriate for mature audiences only.

Admission is free and open to the public.

For more information about the performances, contact the Division of Fine Arts at 573-288-6346.