24-Hour Plays Returns to
Southwestern College
Winfield, Kan., Feb. 6, 2023 — The Southwestern College Theatre
Department 24-Hour Plays is thrilled to host its eighth 24-Hour play
production. With SC students and staff joined by area high school
teachers and students as well as by alumni Campus Player actors, directors, and
technicians will create and complete a full evening of theatre with six
10-minute plays to be presented Saturday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m., in the Richardson
Performing Arts Center on the campus of Southwestern College.
The public is invited to attend. Tickets are $5 for adults and
seniors, $2 for students, and no charge for SC faculty, staff, and
students.
This is SC’s first year to create 24-Hour Plays, since the
pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, SC hosted seven 24-Hour Play events.
The event is licensed by 24 Hour Plays, a New York organization which
gives structures, guidelines, timelines, and suggestions to work out details.
Starting at 9 p.m., Friday, playwrights, actors, directors, assistant
directors, and technicians will begin. Working in shifts so
everyone gets a chance to sleep, the playwrights, directors, actors and
technicians will work in shifts all night and day to write and create the
collection of 10-minute plays which will be performed Saturday at 7 p.m., and
finish by 9 p.m., allowing the actors the time to strike the sets and costumes,
clean the theatre, and be done in 24 hours.
To begin, participants introduce themselves and inspire the plays as each
brings a costume piece and a prop and tells about their talents. Pictures
are taken of each actor, and by 10:30 p.m., the playwrights will choose actors
for their plays and begin writing while the rest of the company goes to
sleep.
At 8 a.m. Saturday, actors, directors, and technicians will begin their
11 hours of rehearsal and tech work for the new plays. Saturday evening theatre
patrons will be treated to the premier of six new 10-minute plays.
For tickets or other information, call (620) 229-6272, or email boxoffice@sckans.edu.
