One-act plays to open season
by Ashley Smicker, Reporter

   NE Campus theater department opens its season with All in the Timing, a series of seven one acts, each with a student director.
   The play runs Wednesday-Saturday, Nov. 5-8. Performances are at 8 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m.
   Because of construction in the NE theater, performances will be in the Center Corner in the Student Center.
   “It has been a wonderful experience,” Nicole Crossi, actress, said.
   Jackie Cabe, theater director, said he wanted to give students interested in directing a chance to direct and to experience and learn more about directing.
   Student director Brier Lee described her learning experience.
   “It is all in the timing,” she said.
   This play has also provided experiences and lessons for actors and actresses as well.
   “It’s nice to work with new and different people,” Stephen Platt, actor, said.
   In Mere Mortals, directed by Alfred Ramirez, three New Jersey construction workers meet for lunch and discover how unique they really are.
   Sure Thing, directed by Lee, is about a woman, sitting in a local café reading a book when she is greeted by a man.
   They start talking, but every time a bell rings, the conversation repeats itself.
   Russ Richardson directs Foreplay. In this segment, six couples are playing miniature golf. Their conversations overlap and are very similar.
   In English Made Simple, Paul Dudley directs two characters at a party.
   The two hear a voice telling them how and how not to have a conversation with each other.
   Universal Language, directed by Ellen Lee, concerns a young woman with a stutter.
   When she arrives at a school to learn the Unamunda language, she falls in love with the young teacher who happens to be scamming her.
   Tabitha Russell directs The Green Hill. A man who becomes obsessed with searching for his dream (the perfect Green Hill) loses sight of his reality over many years.
   In Words, Words, Words directed by Maggie Belanger, three monkeys are “writing into infinity.” Their goal is to produce Hamlet.    They sit in captivity typing all day while being watched by Dr. David Rosenbaum, researcher.
   Tickets are free for TCC students, faculty and staff, $3 for other students and seniors and $5 for general public. For reservations, call the box office at 817-515-6687.