CAMDEN – Get your theatrical fill in one evening as six Rutgers–Camden student directors present a diverse offering of ten-minute plays, written by, and starring, their fellow Scarlet Raptors.
Presented by the Rutgers–Camden Department of Fine Arts, the third annual “Ten-Minute Play Festival” will take place at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9; 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, and Saturday, Feb. 11; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12 at the Black Box Theater.
The theater is located within the Fine Arts Complex on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers–Camden Campus. Tickets are free and will be available in advance at the Campus Center’s Impact Booth or at the door one hour before show time.
“The style of plays I write are usually farce or light comedies,” notes Gorelick, who cites John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt as a big influence. “But my style of actually writing is a bit more complicated…Once the play is written I can spend and have spent years rewriting.”
Eventually Gorelick intends to merge his two passions and write a play about math, but right now his time is precious. “The most difficult part of the two fields I study is going from one class to another with only a ten-minute break.”
In the festival, Gorelick will direct his own play The Date, a comic look at an overprotective mother interfering with her daughter’s social life. Junior theater major Jack Hufner (BELLMAWR) will direct Gorelick’s comedy about a hopeful young screenwriter meeting with an insane movie producer, titled So You Want to Direct? Kearstie Kaspar (CLAYTON), a senior theater major, will direct Gorelick’s play In the Cave, a creepy tale of a man trapped underground with a mysterious stranger.
Three other Rutgers–Camden playwrights will also be featured in the festival. Greed in the age of online trading is examined in Rupee by junior Brian McAndrews (RIVERTON), directed by senior theater major Nathan Kusisto (THOROFARE/WEST DEPTFORD). Sean Quinn, a sophomore theater major (SANTA CLARITA, CALIF.), directs Thread of Life by Munirah Bishop, featuring a young man’s date with Death in a candlelit restaurant. Hard to Explain by first-year student Naiima Williams (GAITHERSBURG), is a light-hearted look at a father explaining the facts of life to his daughter on a crowded subway, directed by senior theater major Ashley Thornton (GLASSBORO).
Student actors performing in the festival include Brian Andrews; Belinda Kopko (PITMAN); Rich Lanci (HADDON TOWNSHIP); Courtney Greenhalgh (CINNAMINSON); Cristina Chillem (CHERRY HILL); Patrizia Evola (SOMERDALE); Gia Lukaitis (BARRINGTON); Matthew Mitchell (MILLVILLE); Tom Milicia (MOUNT ARLINGTON); Alex Scheinberg (COLLINGSWOOD); Jake Hufner; Anelyce Purnell (CHELTENHAM, PA); and Megan Eberth.
For more information, please contact the Department of Fine Arts at 856-225-6176.
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