Mississippi Theatre Association
2018 Annual Theatre festIVAL

Schedule

Thursday, January 11, 2018

12:30 p.m.Registration Opens, Mississippi University for Women, Whitfield Hall,Lobby

1:00 p.m.High School Directors’ Meeting
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Rent Auditorium in Whitfield Hall

5:00 p.m.Registration Closes

5:30 p.m.College / University Auditions – Check-In
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Whitfield Hall, Lobby

6:00 p.m.College/University Auditions
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Rent Auditorium in Whitfield Hall

8:30 p.m.Keynote Address
Robert “RJ” Haddy
Building Large Body Puppets
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Rent Auditorium in Whitfield Hall

Friday, January 12, 2018

7:00 a.m.REGISTRATION OPENS
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Whitfield Hall, Lobby

7:30 a.m.Teachers Receiving CEUs Meeting, Puckett House

8:00 a.m.WELCOME
8:15 a.m. PERFORMANCES
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Rent Auditorium in Whitfield Hall

JACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL

The Lottery
By Brainerd Duffield

Produced by special arrangements with Dramatic Publishing
Director: Kenneth McDade
Disclaimer: Adult Themes

BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL

Frankenstein

By Victor Gialanella, adapted from the novel by Mary Shelley

Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service

Director: Kaye Stucky
Disclaimer: Violence

NORTHWEST RANKIN HIGH SCHOOL

The Shape of the Grave

By Laura Lundgren-Smith

Produced by special arrangements with Playscripts

Director: Juniper Wallace

PICAYUNE HIGH SCHOOL

Dark Road

By Laura Lundgren Smith

Produced by special arrangements with Playscripts

Director: Jeremiah Quiroz

12:30 p.m.Lunch
12:30 p.m.High School Directors’ Meeting
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Rent Auditorium in Whitfield Hall

1:30 p.m.WORKSHOPS

2:40 p.m. Performances
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Rent Auditorium in Whitfield Hall

oxford high school

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
By Stephen Simon
Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service
Director: John Davenport
Disclaimer: Mild Language

BILOXI HIGH SCHOOL

Tales of Trickery

By Kim Alan Wheetley

Produced by special arrangements with Dramatic Publishing

Director: Julie Shepard

CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL

Shuddersome: Tales of Poe

By Lindsay Price
Produced by special arrangements with Theatrefolk

Director: Sarah Hankins

2:30 p.m. 10-Minute Festival -- General Meeting – All participants

Location: Mississippi University for Women, Cochran Hall, Ballroom

Check-in; Review the process; Headshots

3:00 p.m.Silent Auction Opens!
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Whitfield Hall, Lobby

3:00 p.m.Community Theatre Director’s Meeting (Mandatory)
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Cromwell Theatre

5:40 p.m.Dinner Break

7:00 p.m.Adult Individual Events Festival
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Cromwell 2nd Stage – Interpretation Theatre Classroom 238 (Cromwell Hall)

7:00 p.m. PERFORMANCES
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Cromwell Theatre

STARKVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE
Paper Thin
By T.K. Lee
Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Guild of America
Director: Pattye Archer
Disclaimer: Adult Themes

CORINTH THEATRE-ARTS

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Revised)

By Clark Gesner

Produced by special arrangements with Tams-Whitmark

Director: Josh Steen

8:00 p.m.PerformanceS
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Rent Auditorium in Whitfield Hall

OAK GROVE HIGH SCHOOL

A Twist of the Blade

By Suzanne Allmon

Produced by special arrangements with Suzanne Allmon

Director: Suzanne Allmon
Disclaimer: Physical Abuse

POWER APAC

The Bottle Tree

By Beth Kander

Produced by special arrangements with Stage Rights
Director: Malaika Quarterman

OCEAN SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL

Inuk and the Sun

By Henry Beissel

Produced by special arrangements with Playwrights Guild of Canada
Director: Chris Permenter

Saturday, January 13, 2018

7:00 a.m.Registration Opens

Location: Mississippi University for Women, Whitfield Hall, Lobby

8:00 a.m.Individual Events Team Check-In

Location: Mississippi University for Women, ______Building, ______Room

8:30 a.m. Individual Events Festival Begins

Location: Mississippi University for Women, ____ Building _____ Rooms

10:40 AMJUST OVER THE RAINBOW THEATRE

Graceland

By Ellen Byron

Produced by special arrangements with Dramatists Play Service

Directed by Chris Wooten

12:30 p.m.Lunch

12:45 p.m.WORKSHOPS

1:30 p.m.Community Theatre Directors Meeting
Location: Cromwell Theatre

2:00 pmPERFORMANCE

Location: Mississippi University for Women, Cromwell Theatre

TUPELO COMMUNITY THEATRE

The Robber Bridegroom

Music by Alfred Uhry, Music by Robert Waldman,

Based on a novella by Eudora Welty

Produced by special arrangements with Music Theatre International

Director: Jennifer Cummings

4:00 pmDinner

7:00 p.m.Silent Auction Closes

7:00 pmPERFORMANCES

Location: Mississippi University for Women, Cromwell Theatre

THE CENTER PLAYERS COMMUNITY THEATRE

Second Lady
By M. Killburg Reedy
Produced by special arrangements with Samuel French
Director: Ken Hackman

WINGS PERFORMING ARTS

Wonderland

By T.S. Hays

Produced by special arrangements with T.S. Hays

Director: Tonya Hays

7:00 p.m.10-Minute Play Festival Performances

Youth Social will follow the 10-Minute Play Festival

Location: Mississippi University for Women, Poindexter Hall

Youth Social will follow the 10-Minute Play Festival

Location: Mississippi University for Women, Cochran Hall

10:30 p.m.Adult Social
Stephen Lee House
Mississippi University for Women

Sunday, January 14, 2018

8:30 a.m.Secondary Individual Events and 10-Minute Play Festival Awards Ceremony
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Rent Auditorium in Whitfield Hall

9:00 a.m.Community Theatre Division Meeting, Puckett House

9:30 a.m.Staged Reading of Playwriting Competition Winning Plays
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Poindexter Hall

Youth Production, 1st Place Winner:The Gaunlet by Jordyn Harper, MS School for the Arts

9:30 a.m.High School Theatre Division Meeting, Puckett House

10:30 a.m.Staged Reading of Playwriting Competition Winning Plays
Location: Mississippi University for Women, Poindexter Hall
Adult Production, 1st Place Winner:All Your Pretty Horsesby Mac Mitchell, Belhaven University Theatre Department

11:00 a.m. College / University Division Meeting, Puckett House

12:00 p.m.Awards Banquet

Community Theatre and Secondary Festival Awards Ceremony and Adult Individual Events Awards
James M.Trotter Center
402 2nd Ave N, Columbus, MS 39701

10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

FRIDAY

2:30 p.m. General Meeting – All participants

Location:Cochran Ballroom

Check-in and verify who is doing what; Review the process; Headshots

3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Directors Workshop / (Actors can watch shows)

Location:Cochran Ballroom

3:00 – 5:00 p.m.Writers Workshop

Location:Painter Hall Computer Lab 106

5:30 p.m.Dinner Break – Own your own with your school

group (Writers will be finished by this time. Print scripts, Draw numbers

forscripts / directors)

7:00 – 8:30 p.m.Assign scripts to directors, Auditions, Directors meet together to

select actors

8:30 – 9:00 p.m. Directors meet with actors

SATURDAY

(All Saturday events will take place at Mississippi University for Women – Cochran Ballroom, Carrier Chapel, Poindexter Hall Stage)

9:00 a.m. All 10-Minute Students Report, Cochran Ballroom

9:00 – 12:00 p.m. Rehearsals

12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch with your school group

1:30 – 5:30 p.m. Rehearsals with rotations on the stage

5:30 p.m. Dinner(or after run thrus are complete)
(Dinner will be provided for the participants)

6:30 p.m. Meet Backstage

7:00 p.m. Performances, Mississippi University for Women, Poindexter Hall

Stage

INDIVIDUAL EVENTS FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Cochran Hall and Painter Hall

This schedule is tentative, and is subject to change. Event assignments will be postedon Fridayevening in the Whitfield Hall Lobby. Please make your students aware that this year's process will be different from years past. Students should remain close to their assigned rooms for updates while the competition is in session.

Saturday, January 13th

(Competition Rooms – Cochran Hall Rooms , Painter Hall Rooms )

*Students not in competition/waiting to perform should wait quietly in the ______lobby. Doors will be opened after each 5th performance to allow participants to enter/exit rooms.

8:00 am – Directors / Teachers of Students Participating in IEFs meeting, Room____

8:30 – 8:55 a.m.- Students may enter assigned rooms

9:00– a.m. - Festival Begins (Round 1)

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.- Round 1 ends.

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.- Lunch/Tabulation

1:45 p.m.- Round 2 posted

2:00 p.m.- Round 2 begins

THEATRE FOR YOUTH SCHEDULE

Cook Elementary

2217 7th St N, Columbus, MS 39705

8:30 a.m. Oak Grove High School, Adventure Islands by Oak Grove Theatre Students

9:10 a.m. Ocean Springs High School, Aesop’s Tales by Jeanna Graves

9:45 a.m.Response

10:15 a.m.Power APAC, Trapped by Carol D. Wise

10:55 a.m. WINGS, Twas the Week After Christmas byDenver Casado and Bryan Dawson

11:30 a.m. Response

12:15 p.m.Perk Players, Tales of the Singing River by Daisha Walker

1:00 p.m.Dramatic Harmonies, The Discard Pile byTracey Mohler, Meredith Mohler,

Lane Craft

1:30 p.m. Response & Break

2:45 p.m. Awards