2008 Woodie Awards
Vol State theater students perform in "Electra"
Bruce Harbin
Issue date: 4/7/08 Section: Entertainment
On April 4 and 5, Volunteer State Community College students put on the play, "Electra," at the Palace Theater in Gallatin.
The 200-seat theater was approximately two-thirds of the way full Saturday night to see the cast put on a grand performance.
The time-frame in which the play is set is given away instantly with mentions of the Greek gods and chariot racing.
From the first five minutes of the play, it was obvious that the play was going to be an exciting story about a plot of revenge.
Daron Martel's character, Orestes, explains in the first scene how he will carry out his revenge.
The play's plot is set, and the audience was left wondering what would happen next.
From there, the plot unfolds that Martel's character will exact revenge on his mother, Clytemnestra, played by Lizbeth Norton and her new husband, King Aegisthus, played by Kenneth Stephens.
Orestes had sent a servant to tell his mother and sister that he had died in a chariot race.
After hearing the news, Electra, played by Irlyn Morris, is distraught over her brother's death.
But after mourning on the shoulders of her friends and her sister, played by Johnna Malbrough, Orestes appears to Electra and reveals that he is not dead, but wants to exact revenge on their mother and the king.
Orestes brutally kills their mother, and tricks the king, killing him as well.
Morris's sobs of sorrow and pain were so convincing that it was hard to differentiate reality from acting in the parts of the play where she was mourning for Orestes and her own grief-stricken life.
The moans of sorrow and pain were loud and lively.
Johnna Malbrough, who played Chrysothemis, played the role as if she was walking a line of loyalty to her mother, and love for her sister.
Malbrough's character had a forceful argument with Morris's character during the play that was chilling and convincing of Malbrough's range as an actress-playing a soft, loyal daughter, to having a harsh, heated argument with her sister.
The 200-seat theater was approximately two-thirds of the way full Saturday night to see the cast put on a grand performance.
The time-frame in which the play is set is given away instantly with mentions of the Greek gods and chariot racing.
From the first five minutes of the play, it was obvious that the play was going to be an exciting story about a plot of revenge.
Daron Martel's character, Orestes, explains in the first scene how he will carry out his revenge.
The play's plot is set, and the audience was left wondering what would happen next.
From there, the plot unfolds that Martel's character will exact revenge on his mother, Clytemnestra, played by Lizbeth Norton and her new husband, King Aegisthus, played by Kenneth Stephens.
Orestes had sent a servant to tell his mother and sister that he had died in a chariot race.
After hearing the news, Electra, played by Irlyn Morris, is distraught over her brother's death.
But after mourning on the shoulders of her friends and her sister, played by Johnna Malbrough, Orestes appears to Electra and reveals that he is not dead, but wants to exact revenge on their mother and the king.
Orestes brutally kills their mother, and tricks the king, killing him as well.
Morris's sobs of sorrow and pain were so convincing that it was hard to differentiate reality from acting in the parts of the play where she was mourning for Orestes and her own grief-stricken life.
The moans of sorrow and pain were loud and lively.
Johnna Malbrough, who played Chrysothemis, played the role as if she was walking a line of loyalty to her mother, and love for her sister.
Malbrough's character had a forceful argument with Morris's character during the play that was chilling and convincing of Malbrough's range as an actress-playing a soft, loyal daughter, to having a harsh, heated argument with her sister.
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Sabrina
posted 4/08/08 @ 8:04 PM CST
I am a huge fan of the school newspaper and have been since 2005. That being said, I have a few problems with this article. It is only one among many in the past year, but as we all know finals are coming up and I simply do not have the time to write all those letters. (Continued…)
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