{"id":5334,"date":"2022-03-23T19:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T00:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/?p=5334"},"modified":"2022-03-23T19:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T00:50:16","slug":"theater-seniors-direct-a-double-feature-of-one-act-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/?p=5334","title":{"rendered":"Theater Seniors Direct a Double Feature of One-Act Plays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concordia University Chicago seniors Hannah Sochowski and Emil Clausing will showcase their directing skills this weekend for the double production of the one-act plays Trifles<\/em> and A Kind of Alaska<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For CUC’s remaining theater majors, the performances serve as a capstone project to allow them to produce and direct a work of their choosing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving some experience helps,” said Clausing. “I\u2019m not totally out of my comfort zone, but this play will be my first full-length experience in directing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trifles<\/em> is a one-act play written by Susan Glaspell in 1916. The play deals with the investigation after a woman allegedly murders her husband. As the authorities search for evidence, a group of women uncover the true reasons behind the murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was told about this play, it really wasn\u2019t my thing because I saw it as just a murder mystery,\u201d said Sochowski. \u201cThen I read it, and it\u2019s about justice, feminism, abuse, and this idea of who to blame, which is really what stuck with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sochowki has performed as an actress at CUC since transferring two years ago. Most recently, she acted in and worked as the assistant director of the recent production The <\/em>Women of Lockerbie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“What I love about it is seeing actors discover things,\u201d said Sochowski. \u201cI like seeing those moments of discovery and seeing others\u2019 ideas play out and being able to guide that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Written in 1982 by Harold Pinter, A Kind of Alaska<\/em> centers on a middle-aged woman who wakes up in the 1960s after a thirty-year coma. Throughout the play, she has to come to terms with an unchanged state of mind and an aged body in a changed world that she once knew.<\/p>\n

A Kind of Alaska <\/i>also deals with the exposition of pandemics and sicknesses of the 1920s, which Clausing felt still relates to us during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I wanted to do a Harold Pinter play,\u201d said Clausing. \u201cThe motifs and the movements of his plays aren\u2019t something you\u2019d expect to see in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clausing has acted in a several stage performances at CUC, while also appearing in a couple of short student films on campus. During the pandemic, he was able to get his first experience directing in class, but nothing that compares to his production of A Kind of Alaska<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Performances for these one-acts are scheduled for March 25 and 26 at 7:00 p.m. in CUC\u2019s Bergmann Theatre on the second floor of the Krentz Center. Admission is free and will feature an intermission between the transition of plays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Concordia University Chicago seniors Hannah Sochowski and Emil Clausing will showcase their directing skills this weekend for the double production of the one-act plays Trifles and A Kind of Alaska. For CUC’s remaining theater majors, the performances serve as a capstone project to allow them to produce and direct a work of their choosing. \u201cHaving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":5356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}