A collection of student-written, student-directed and student-cast plays opens tonight as the Lost Flamingo Company brings lobsters, catapults and pillow talk to the stage.
Short Stacks will feature eight student-written plays.
Student playwrights were given a chance to submit original work to LFC, which selected the best eight. The shows were then put in the hands of student directors.
The playwright submits the work
but after that they don't do a whole lot. The whole fun of being a director is that you are making it happen and then the playwright gets to see how someone else viewed their work said Laura Ornella, a freshman and director of Maternal Instincts.
She said that Short Stacks is LFC's way of showing playwriting is not dead.
I think a lot of people think that playwriting is a dying art
so it is refreshing to see that that is not really true. There are still kids that like scribbling things down and wanting them to be shown
Ornella said.
Billy Giacci, a junior studying English, is directing the play A Tragedy in Maine, written by senior Mike Reynolds.
It's basically about a king that takes over Maine in the year of 2009 and tricks the people into believing that he is now the king based on economic recession. Oh
and he catapults people
he said.
The play also includes a drug-addicted guard and a lobster conspiracy.
Maternal Instincts focuses on a couple as they lay in bed, discussing their issues.
Maternal Instincts is about a young couple
Jean and Peter. Jean is ready to have a kid and Peter keeps promising her and he keeps thinking he is ready to
but in reality he is not
Ornella said.
Overall, he said the show is a mix of drama, comedy and everything else.
With LFC we always like to say we are putting on this show
expect hilarity to ensue. That's just how LFC does things
