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The Theatre Arts Management Shop at Catawba College Shuford School of Performing Arts Presents: MC EPPTHE HOUSE: SPOTLIGHT CATAWBA COLLEGE 2300 West Innes St. April 2013 Vol 19, No. 6 www.catawba.edu/theatrearts Salisbury, NC 28144 TELEPHONE (704) 637-4481 EMAIL THEATREARTS @CATAWBA.EDU Co-Editor: Sydney Berk Closing out this year with a classic [email protected] Co-Editor: JOIN US AS WE CLOSE THE Verity Pryor-Harden 2012-2013 THEATRE SEASON [email protected] UPCOMING PRODUCTION: THE CRUCIBLE Directed by Kurt Corriher, this chilling drama by Arthur Miller tells a story of fanaticism, fear, and lust. Continued on Page 2 UPCOMING PRODUCTION: DANCEWORKS Completely choreographed and performed by students! Learn a little bit more about the Dance Ensemble, and join us for this free production! Continued on Page 4 Sydney Berk, Eric English, & Guest Artist Craig Kolkebeck in The Crucible (Photography by Tracy Ratliff) BLUE MASQUE HALL OF FAMER RETURNS! Catawba Theatre Alumnus and member of the Blue Masque Hall of Fame, Richard Steinert is coming back! Continued on Page 4 Dancers of the Dance Ensemble from 2011 Richard Steinert UPCOMING PRODUCTION: ONE ACTS FESTIVAL The Directing II class presents an evening of exciting one-act plays. Continued on Page 5 ALUMNI OF THE MONTH: TIM ROSS & JUSTIN DIONNE We’ve doubled up our alumni recognition. Meet our Catawba Theatre Alumni of the Month! Continued on Page 6 Like us on Facebook: /catawbatheatre | Follow us on Twitter: @CatawbaTheatre | Follow us on Instagram: @catawbatheatre THE SPOTLIGHT PAGE2 !e Crucible by Pen Chance played Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman as Join Catawba College Theatre as we a Guest Artist at Catawba in 2001, so I've Ca" close our 2012-2013 season in bringing to been looking for the opportunity to Betty Paris: Shannon O’Donnell life Arthur Miller’s chilling classic, The participate in another Miller Reverend Parris: Sean Henderson Crucible. This moving drama by the critically production. The Crucible is certainly one of Tituba: Dee Clarke* Abigail Williams: Katie Carpenter* acclaimed playwright and essayist Arthur the playwright's best. It is always topical Susanna Walcott: Emily Olszewski Miller, tells the story of the infamous Salem because we must always battle the human Ann Putnam: Katie Hopkins Witch Trials using powerful language and tendency to ignore the dictates of reason Thomas Putnam: Matthew Ensley potent characters. The production runs and yield to fanaticism, a state of mind that Mercy Lewis: Ashley O’Donnell April 9-10 beginning at 6:55 pm, and April invariably leads to great suffering and Mary Warren: Jacquelyn Loy* John Proctor: Eric English 11-13, at 7:30 pm. injustice. At the same time, as Miller shows Giles Corey: George Glass The stage is set in late 1600s, Salem, us, the struggle against fanaticism also often Rebecca Nurse: Collette Riddle* Massachusetts, as something evil winds its demonstrates man's opposite nature as well: Reverend Hale: Pen Chance way into a small village. Rumors of namely our capacity for courage and Elizabeth Proctor: Sydney Berk* witchcraft run amok, as young girls fall ill to nobility of mind in the face of such Francis Nurse: Ryan Kelly Ezekiel Cheever: Leana Guzman* causes unknown. One girl in particular uses injustices.” John Willard: Dillon Reid these rumors to her advantage by framing a Tickets are $10 general admission, $8 Judge Hathorne: Cody Mangum young farmer’s wife for witchcraft, sending non-Catawba students and senior citizens, Judge Danforth: Craig Kolkebeck the community into an uproar. with group discounts available. Tickets may (Guest Artist) Director Kurt Corriher comments on be purchased online at www.catawba.edu/ Sarah Good: Ruby Osorio why he chose The Crucible: “I've long felt that theatretix or at the box office on the nights Arthur Miller is the master of American of the performance. For more details, call * Denotes membership in the Alpha Psi Omega playwrights. I directed All My Sons some the Catawba College Theatre Box Office Dramatic Honors Society years ago for the St. Thomas Players, and I at (704) 637-4481. Sydney Berk, Eric English, and Craig Kolkebeck in The Crucible Eric English and Katie Carpenter in The Crucible (Photography by Tracy Ratliff) (Photography by Tracy Ratliff) Like us on Facebook: /catawbatheatre | Follow us on Twitter: @CatawbaTheatre | Follow us on Instagram: @catawbatheatre THE SPOTLIGHT PAGE3 THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS OF 1692 epidemic, and the threat of attack by warring Superior Court of Judicature, formed to from www.salemwitchmuseum.com tribes created a fertile ground for fear and replace the "witchcraft" court, did not allow In January of 1692, the daughter and suspicion. Soon, prisons were filled with more spectral evidence. This belief in the power of niece of Reverend Samuel Parris of Salem than 150 men and women from towns the accused to use their invisible shapes or Village became ill. When they failed to surrounding Salem. Their names had been spectres to torture their victims had sealed the improve, the village doctor, William Griggs, "cried out" by tormented young girls as the fates of those tried by the Court of Oyer and was called in. His diagnosis of bewitchment cause of their pain. All would await trial for a Terminer. The new court released those put into motion the forces that would crime punishable by death in 17th-century awaiting trial and pardoned those awaiting ultimately result in the death by hanging of New England, the practice of witchcraft. execution. In effect, the Salem witch trials were nineteen men and women. In addition, one In June of 1692, the special Court of over. man was crushed to death, seven others died Oyer (to hear) and Terminer (to decide) sat in As years passed, apologies were offered, in prison, and the lives of many were Salem to hear the cases of witchcraft. Presided and restitution was made to the victims' irrevocably changed. over by Chief Justice William Stoughton, the families. Historians and sociologists have To understand the events of the Salem court was made up of magistrates and jurors. examined this most complex episode in our witch trials, it is necessary to examine the The first person to be tried was Bridget Bishop history so that we may understand the issues of times in which accusations of witchcraft of Salem, who was found guilty and was that time and apply our understanding to our occurred. There were the ordinary stresses hanged on June 10. Thirteen women and five own society. The parallels between the Salem of 17th-century life in Massachusetts Bay men from all stations of life followed her to the witch trials and more modern examples of Colony. A strong belief in the devil, factions gallows on three successive hanging days "witch hunting" like the McCarthy hearings of among Salem Village fanatics, rivalry with before the court was disbanded by Governor the 1950's, are remarkable. nearby Salem Town, a recent small pox William Phipps in October of that year. The Depictions of the Salem Witch Trials A House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Hearing Creative Team Production Crew Director: Kurt Corriher Light Board Operator: Brandon Engelskirchen Set Design: David Pulliam Sound Board Operator: Alicia Almodovar Costume Design: Erin B. Dougherty Wardrobe: Amanda Becker Hair & Makeup Design: Lara Williams Dressers: Forest Fugate, Courtney Lighting Design: Christopher D. Zink Cowman, Ashleigh Moore- Sound Design/Sound Engineer: Gyo Gamble Orlowski Technical Director: Christopher D. Zink Properties Running Crew: Jordan Clifton Stage Manager: Jerry Archer* Deck Captain: Maggie Saunders Assistant Stage Manager: Hannah Lee Deck Crew: Jura Davis, Daniel Brown, TyNia Master Carpenter: Greg Stoughton Brandon Lead Carpenter: Sam Yeager Hair/Makeup Technicians: Chelsea Retalic, Morgan Master Electrician: Cody Gasque Summers Lead Electrician: Alicia Almodovar Publicity: Pen Chance First Hand: Adam Weiner Front of House Manager: Melissa Tarduno Second Hand: Kassandra Tuttle Poster Design: Pen Chance Properties Mistress: Leanna Hicks Program Design: Verity Pryor-Harden Lead Properties Artisans: Daniel Brown, Ashton Tibbitt Charge Artist: Verity Pryor-Harden * Denotes membership in the Alpha Psi Omega Dramatic Lead Scenic: Jean White Honors Society Like us on Facebook: /catawbatheatre | Follow us on Twitter: @CatawbaTheatre | Follow us on Instagram: @catawbatheatre THE SPOTLIGHT PAGE4 Let’s take a peek at the Dance Ensemble Every semester, a group of talented student choreographers are given artistic Danceworks 2013 freedom to conceptualize and choreograph a Directed by Missy Barnes “The problem lay buried, unspoken for dance piece to music of their choosing. In the April 21, 2:00 pm many years in the minds of American spring, we hold Danceworks, a compilation of women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of all their work, which is open to the public. It April 22, 7:30 pm dissatisfaction, a yearning that women is always different, surprising, creative, and Keppel Auditorium suffered...Each suburban housewife innovative. Per usual, this year will not Tickets are FREE! struggled with it alone. As she made the disappoint. Admission is free and tickets need beds, shopped for groceries, matched not be reserved in advance. Come see the slipcover material, ate peanut butter talent and creativity of our amazing dancers sandwiches with her children, chauffeured and choreographers. “My dance takes you inside the Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her mind of a deranged girl where you husband at night, she was afraid to ask see the internal battle she's always even of herself the silent question: ‘Is this “The purpose of my dance is to pay going through. I really tried to push all?’ - Betty Friedan” homage to one of the greatest myself and choreograph something - Katie Carpenter, Senior choreographers that ever lived: Bob slightly out of my comfort zone Fosse. I guess I have always loved dance while still keeping me in there.