{"id":8692,"date":"2021-04-19T17:04:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T00:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1055ksnx.com\/?p=8692"},"modified":"2021-04-19T17:04:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T00:04:56","slug":"npcs-virtual-spring-theatre-festival-april-24-may-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1055ksnx.com\/?p=8692","title":{"rendered":"NPC\u2019s Virtual Spring Theatre Festival, April 24-May 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Northland Pioneer College\u2019s (NPC\u2019s), Performing Arts Department will be producing six 10-minute plays as part of the college\u2019s 2021 Virtual Spring Theatre Festival. Due to the pandemic, NPC\u2019s performing arts students and director Patrick Day have been rehearsing via Zoom and will record and post the performances to YouTube. The series will be available for public viewing from Saturday, April 24 through Sunday, May 9. The YouTube channel is titled Northland Pioneer College, 2021 Theatre Festival and can be found at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCp6yzFzViIZqvrQA-Bn1Kyw\/videos<\/p>\n

NPC\u2019s Virtual Spring Theatre Festival will feature the work of contemporary playwrights involved in the New Play Exchange, a website where playwrights from around the world post their work, which can then be read by subscribers and used by theatre companies who contact the playwrights about production rights and licensing requests.<\/p>\n

This spring\u2019s virtual theatre festival includes Tiffany is a Medieval Name by Sarah Rae Brown, featuring Claire Padilla and KayBree Raisor as two old vampire friends who connect via video chat to discuss an interesting revelation about their relationship.<\/p>\n

In another play, performers Kellie Stanton and Taya Hancock portray two mismatched scene partners who connect in an online improv class in Allie Costa\u2019s Yes, And\u2026<\/p>\n

In Stung, by Laura Ekstrand, two people, played by Kara Cirre and Reece Harris, meet at a farmers\u2019 market and are resolved to change the way they participate in relationships. A simple transaction turns into a conversation that nudges them toward a new path forward.<\/p>\n

Alexandrea Delarosa and Kellie Stanton appear in Jess Honovich\u2019s comedy Amazing in which a mother hires a magician for her son’s birthday party\u2026 only one\u2019s not really a magician and the other\u2019s not really a mother.<\/p>\n

Performers Alexandrea Delarosa, Taya Hancock, Reece Harris and Elaine Mahaffey make up the cast in another comedy, The Check-Up, written by Scott Mullen. A man attends a doctor\u2019s appointment using Zoom but isn’t happy when it is a female doctor; then their mothers show up.<\/p>\n

Jennifer O\u2019Grady\u2019s Fridge focuses on a woman and her refrigerator in a story about failure and acceptance. The play will be published in the Smith and Kraus anthology The Best 10-Minute Plays, 2021, and features Kara Cirre, Elaine Mahaffey, Claire Padilla and KayBree Raisor.<\/p>\n

NPC\u2019s Virtual Spring Theatre Festival is free to the public and viewable at any time during the YouTube unveiling, as a way for the college\u2019s Performing Arts Department to provide entertainment to White Mountain communities despite the uncertainties brought about by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Questions about this and upcoming NPC performances as well as Northland Pioneer College\u2019s Performing Arts program, can be directed to NPC\u2019s Technical Designer\/Production Manager, Patrick Day at 928-536-6267 or email patrick.day@npc.edu.<\/p>\n

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