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“There’s nothing to do in Morris”

Wednesday-Friday, plus Sunday, was the wonderfully funny student production Complete works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged). Last night was an excellent production of A turn of the screw by The Acting Company brought to us by CAC Performing Arts. Over the weekend a community theater group was doing a production that I would guess was quite good, although I didn’t have time to see it. Tomorrow (Monday) various student groups are sponsoring a showing of “Afropunk: The Rock and Roll Nigger Experience” (with the director coming for discussion, if memory serves), followed by a live performance down at the Old #1 including, among others, members of DoomTree. Thursday, CAC Convocations is bringing Nadine Strossen (head of the ACLU) to speak, and immediately after is this months open mic night.

And that’s just the few things that I’m aware of off the top of my head.

And people say there’s nothing to do in Morris…

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The complete works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) was a complete hoot!

We just got back from seeing the student production of The complete works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), and it was a blast. The three cast members were enormously funny and did a great job with some very challenging material.

We’ve gone to a lot of plays here over the years, and there haven’t been many with this kind of slapstick feel and such a large improv component. This is not a complaint, as we’ve seen a lot of excellent stuff (such as Proof last semester), but the productions have clearly tended to the more “serious” end of the spectrum. All of which made this production even more impressive, as this sort of material can be hard to nail, and they really pulled it off.

There were a ton of great moments, but I really loved running through the histories as a football match, the inclusion of the mother of one of the leads, and the running of Hamlet backwards at the end. There were lots of great little improv moments (the taco burp!) that are too numerous to recount. The three gents gave the impression of really enjoying themselves and enjoying working together, and it was infectious.

Well done all!

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