The Shadow Collective, an student organization dedicated to producing new works, hosted the Tokach 24-Hour Play Festival this weekend.
The festival, named after Sage Tokach, acting alumna, involves students writing, directing, rehearsing, and performing a short play within a single day. Five plays were created this year.
The performance was 8 p.m. Sept. 15 in Watson Lounge in the Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel.
- Lauren Lempke, theatre and performance freshman, performs in “The Story Goes On.”
- Simon Gomez, music theatre/composition sophomore; Elizabeth Georges, theatre and performance freshman, and Joey Witten, acting sophomore, perform in “Still Life No. 9” where a famous artist gets kidnapped, along with piece No. 9, by an art-collecting couple.
- Matthew Lavery, acting sophomore; Harley Harris, theatre and performance freshman, and Molly Shottenkirk, theatre and performance freshman, perform in “Medical Presumptuous,” about a surgeon who is so consumed with himself that he’s distracted during a patient’s open heart surgery.
- Hannah “Cozy” Cozart, acting sophomore, hugs Duke Bartholomew, acting sophomore.
- Malcolm Koehler, theatre and performance sophomore; Jessica Lomas acting sophomore, and Emma Smith, journalism freshman, perform in “Abby Bryan, After Accidentally Time Traveling to the Civil War, as well as an Absurd Dystopian Future, Accidentally Summons a Cult Following: Chipwrecked: An Abby Bryan Story.”
Photos by Kylie Sullivan
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