A day of theater with MLT
A handful of Mines’ enthusiastic thespians gathered in the Ford building shortly after seven o’clock on Friday, ready to audition to show off talents that each one could bring to the stage. The writers watched the auditions, selected their actors and actresses, and began this semester’s 24-hour Play Festival. In the words of Mines Little Theater President Kari Kron, the festival is a “twenty-four hour production of a play from scratch.” The writers, Maria Deslis and Jared Griffith, had from 7 PM Friday night until 6 AM Saturday morning to turn blank pages into a complete one-act play. Every few hours, Kron would present them with one of seven prompts, such as “you must punch someone,” and “you must reference Harry Potter,” which had to be included in the scripts. Many of the actors stayed the night, to help the writers where they could. Actor Alex Dell looked excited to be there, even though he said he had not “slept this week.” The enthusiasm and high spirits were evidenced by fellow actor Ethan Morton-Gaught, who said that the hardest part was going to be “reinforcing the doors in case of raptor attack.”
