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Bi-College Student Theater Festival
Opens in Goodhart Thursday Night
 For the next two weeks, audiences will have a chance to sample a diverse offering of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges ’ dramatic talent at the “Third-Ever Bi-College Student Theater Festival.” The festival will feature ten student-conceived and –directed performances – six this week and four next week. For the first time this year, the plays will be performed in several different locations in Goodhart Hall, rather than being presented in a single program on the main stage. The performances are scheduled, however, so that the avid theatergoer can see every one.
All performances in the festival are open to the public; tickets are $5 for the general public and free to students, faculty and staff of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges (with ID). To reserve tickets, e-mail theater@brynmawr.edu.
“The student theater festival is a great opportunity,” says Nora Sidoti ’07, who is participating in the event for the second time this year. “The students have complete creative control, but we have all the resources of the Bi-Co Theater Program, from props and lighting to the expertise of [Technical Director of Theater] Hiroshi Iwasaki and [Director of Theater] Mark Lord, who acts as a producer.” Sidot’s piece, like several in the festival, is part of a senior thesis project in theater.
This Week’s Performances:
The festival opens Thursday, March 29, at 9 p.m. in Goodhart Common Room with a performance of “Cowboy Mouth,” directed by Nora Sidoti ’07. The play, an early work of Sam Shepard co-written by Rock poet Patti Smith, explores the intimate, sometimes violent relationship between a Shepard-like character, played by Nick Morgan, HC ’06, and a Smith-like character, played by Sidoti. Repeat performances of “Cowboy Mouth will take place on Friday, March 30, and Saturday, March 31, at the same time and location.
On Friday, March 30, and Saturday, March 31, and Sunday, April 1, a quadruple bill will be presented on the Goodhart Main Stage beginning at 7 p.m. On the bill:
“Sure Thing” and “The Philadelphia,” directed by Meredith Bihl ‘07, are a pair of short comic pieces written by David Ives. “Come Little Children: Voices of Poe,” written and directed by Rebecca Buck ‘09, presents a grandmother whose grandchildren begin to act our her bedtime stories based on Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Telltale Heart” – with a startling result. “Last Night,” written and directed by Sarah Caldwell ‘08, is an adaptation of a short story by James Salter, intercut with a translation of Euripides’ Alcestis that takes the audience to “the land of vice and denial, leave-taking and betrayal.”
Also on Friday, March 30, and Saturday, March 31, and Sunday, April 1, Aditi Vashist ‘08 will present Samuel Beckett’s “Not I” in the Goodhart stairwell (seating is limited to 17). Shows, lasting about 20 minutes each, will take place at 9 and 10 p.m. each night. “Not I” is a monologue performed by a speaker who is lit so that only her mouth is visible. The Mouth (played by Vashist) delivers a fragmented, troubled narrative describing events that, the speaker repeatedly insists, did not happen to her.
Check next week’s Bryn Mawr Now for information about the second week of the festival.
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