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You tell us! www.myspace.com/dailytitanbuzz 09.28.06 p.4........................................... Sea Gull Flies to CSUF’s Young Theatre The play, directed by Svetlana Efremova-Reed and performed by Cal State Fullerton’s theatre department, begins this Friday BY JULIANNA CRisaLLI a great job capturing the cultural Daily Titan Staff Writer differences. They brought their own [email protected] experience into their performances,” she said. PHOTOS BY KARL THUNMAN Efremova-Reed said the love- Daily TItan Staff Photographer story depicts the sacrifice that [email protected] people make in their relationships People dressed in dark black rush to pursue and present their art. around the stage placing props and “It is about the artist suffering, pulling curtains, while behind the naïve love you experience when scenes is a whirlwind of bobby pins, you are young, betrayal and the nylons and makeup. importance of family. There is a “The Sea Gull,” presented by Cal whole lot to the story,” said graduate State Fullerton’s theater department, student Zack Kraus, who plays the begins tomorrow night in the Young young writer Konstantin. Theatre. Efremova-Reed is not only Six graduate students, as well as directing “The Sea Gull,” she is four professional actors, spent five acting in it as well. weeks rehearsing the play. “That was the biggest mistake,” Director Svetlana Efremova-Reed she said. “I have never acted and said rehearsals are “going well.” directed at the same time. That was Sorin is played by Dan Evers “It is hard going, and there are the hardest duty. But I did have a still elements that need to be put stand-in so I could become detached together, but it is good. I am very to see how it looked.” excited,” she said. Kraus said it was both rewarding “The Sea Gull,” written by and challenging to work alongside Anton Chekhov, follows the story the professional actors. of a young writer in 19th-century “You push and push and push Russia. yourself and grow, but when you Efremova-Reed, who is Russian work with people like this you learn herself, said she feels it is her duty to what it takes to be a professional,” teach the audience and her students Kraus said. about the Russian culture. “The Sea Gull” will run until “I love to share my vision. I have Oct. 15. Tickets are now available a very specific vision, especially at the box office or through www. with this topic. My students did tickets.com. Above Left: Stephen Keep Mills plays Dorn; Above Right: Maria Cominis’ character, Blina Andreevna, embrases Dorn Right: Zack Kraus and Hannah Baumhover as Konstantin and Nina hold each other Looking Forward to the Future BY JULIANNA CRisaLLI Science degree in Theater and rewarding in a different way than Daily Titan Staff Writer Psychology. acting,” he said. [email protected] Although he loves the interaction Kraus is looking forward to between performer and actor in live branching out and entering “the real This may be his last performance performances, Kraus hopes to try world.” The main thing he worries at Cal State Fullerton. his hand at television and film. about the feeling of being alone in Graduate student Zack Kraus is “I have never done it, and I would Los Angeles. currently rehearsing for his thesis like to just try it,” he said. “I love the “It doesn’t matter how many production in “The Sea Gull.” theater though, and I will always be people are in L.A. I hear it is really Although this is technically the doing it in some respect.” lonely. Here you receive good last play he needs for his graduate During his graduate program at constructive criticism. There is really degree, actors are given the option to CSUF, Kraus had the opportunity none of that out there. That is a big audition for the following semester’s to teach a couple of acting for non- fright,” he said. productions as well. major classes. Kraus looks forward to the Kraus has performed in several Although he hadn’t considered it different roles ahead of him. plays at CSUF as well as at the before, he will keep teaching as an “Mostly, whatever play I am in, University of Wisconsin La Crosse, option for his career. at the moment is my favorite play,” where he earned a Bachelor of “I really enjoyed doing it. It is he said.