by Kelly Rogge
Theater students at Kansas City Kansas Community College are putting the final touches on the 17th-annual Original Student One Act Play Festival.
The festival opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the KCKCC Performing Arts Center, 7250 State Ave. Additional performances are at 7:30 p.m. April 17 and 18 as well as 2:30 p.m. April 19.
Three plays are included in this year’s festival, all written, directed, acted and designed by KCKCC Theatre Students:
• “The Roman Tiger” – gangsters willing to do anything to an accountant to obtain a valuable secret.
• “Nothing Else Matters” – a young teenager faces the challenge of providing for her sisters and alcoholic mother.
• “Hell, LLC” – the Devil goes corporate and relegates the processing of souls to a new hire.
“The best reason to attend? You never know who might become the next big thing,” said Charles Leader, theater professor at KCKCC. “Nathan Jackson started in the Student One-Acts our first year. Nathan is now the resident playwright at the KC Repertory Theatre and writes for the television series, ‘Resurrection.’”
These plays have mature subject matter, and are not suitable for young children. Homemade chocolate chip and chocolate peanut butter cookies will also be available for purchase.
For more information, contact Leader at [email protected].
Kelly Rogge is the public information supervisor at Kansas City Kansas Community College.