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MSU’s Theatre2Film Project

2/1/2015

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MSU’s Theatre2Film Project has the subtitle: “Three Hundred and Thirteen Possibilities” — which may be a few to many? It is an ambitious acting/writing/film-making collaborative experiment that comes out a little “too-many-cooks” to be satisfying for the audience — though it is undoubtedly educational and challenging for the students. Director and “Conceiver” Mark Colson is to be congratulated on the effort and coordination to incorporate multiple ideas and authors and a large number of actors — with the added interesting challenge to go on and turn this into a film. There is a writing group, an independent film study group and a spring 2015 class in Media Acting which will produce a film version of this script. It would be interesting to see a shorter version done back-to-back, live-actor version and film version. The film version may eventually be open to the public, but I doubt that I can keep the specifics in my head long enough to compare.

This vehicle showcases some good, naturalistic acting, with characters interesting enough that we want to know “what happens next” — but we don’t find out. Perhaps this non-resolution is a statement about the chaotic nature of life, “disconnection, loneliness, loss of idealism, finding direction, isolation created by technology” (possible themes listed in the director’s note) but it’s challenging for an audience meeting these characters for the first time and working hard to keep the various stories straight. Though the scene changes were remarkably fast and efficient (10 seconds or less) the multiple stories with many, short scenes felt disjointed, like a series of acting exercises. It “leaves you hanging” as I overheard one audience member comment.
Theatre2Film Project is in Studio 60, in the basement of MSU’s Auditorium building (corner of Farm Lane and Auditorium Rd.) Get tickets at the Farm-Lane Side box office — General Admission $10 — then go downstairs, and down the long hall beside the Arena to get to the Studio 60 venue.Remaining Performances:*Sunday, February 1, 2015 at 2:00pm
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 7:30pm
**Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 7:30pm
Friday, February 6, 2015 at 8:00pm
Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 2:00pm
Saturday, February 7, 2015 at 8:00pm
Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 2:00pm

* Director Pre-Show Discussion Sunday, February 1, 2015 at 1:15 PM
** Post-Show Discussion on Thursday, February 5, 2015 (Following the Performance)

Tickets are available from the Wharton Center Box Office, 1.800.WHARTON, whartoncenter.com 


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