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January 19, 2004
Southampton Players to Stage Eight Original One-Acts in Avram Theater
"InterAct: He Said/She Said" Features Short, Eclectic Selection of PlaysContact:
Patricia Conway
631-287-8313Southampton, NY – A stripper reminisces about her profession and recalls four different men she came in contact with, an absurdist battles intelligence and professional interpersonal conflict and three young people are trapped in a bathroom and forced to confront issues past, present and future. These and several other themes are tackled by The Southampton Players in their eighth annual production of "InterAct," a series of locally-written one-act plays.
The Players will once again bring to life their popular "InterAct" series – subtitled "He Said/She Said" because of the plays’ new twist this year of employing the skills of two undergraduate student directors of opposite genders – Fridays and Saturdays, January 30 and 31 and February 6 and 7 at 8 p.m. in the Avram Theater. Tickets are $9. For reservations, call The Southampton Players box office at (631) 287-8899.
"This year’s unique arrangement of connecting not only our student writers with their actors, but adding two students directors to the mix, will surely be more challenging and risky," said Avram Theater director Michael Disher. "Derek and Allison have been hard at work to get these pieces to become three-dimensional. I’m sure the end result will showcase their distinct and opposing perspectives," he said of student directors Allison-Rose DeTemple and Derek Barbanti.
DeTemple will direct four one-acts including Oliver Peterson’s "Q.C. Folly," a segment which illustrates the search for respect and compassion from an unlikely subject. It features Kristen Sinkel, Sarah Boes, Kristen Senese and high school student Jason Dylan Nower. "The Magician," written by MFA student Dave Engledrum, examines the perception of expectations in relationships over time. It stars Rich Gardini, Andrew McClain, Deborah Schall, Felix Montas and Jimmy Macaluso. MFA students John Capone and Brian Kelly teamed up to write "Exuent Omnes" an absurdist’s battle of intelligence and professional interpersonal conflict and DeTemple wrote and will direct her own "Quartet For Death," a display of the lengths that people will go to win. It stars Carol Sherman, Brenda Reed, Deborah Schall, Laura DePinto, Greg Shields, Caleb Bartlett, Jackie Townsend, Rich Gardini, Jennifer Brock, Eric Fuerderer, Josephine Teresi, Anthony DePinto, Kristen Senese, Andrew McClain, Felix Montas and Jimmy Macaluso.
Barbanti will direct MFA student Sophie Thall’s "Brown, Black and Blue," which takes a look at a stripper’s life. It features Josephine Teresi, Jesse Sones, John Capone and Rich Gardini; "Ego Alters," written by Janine Sones, is a piece about the alter egos of a married couple through the mind game that is their love life. Eric Fuerderer, Josephine Teresi, Jesse Sones and Sarah Boes star; "You Don’t Wanna Use This Bathroom," written by undergraduate Alissa Melanie LeClair, provides an interesting look at three young people trapped in a bathroom confronting issues past, present and future and "In the Middle," a piece that Barbanti wrote himself, in which he uses a three room apartment that serves as a battlefield inhabited by a young couple living together for the first time.
Many of the past plays in "InterAct" stem from Southampton College’s esteemed MFA in Writing and undergraduate writing workshops with Time magazine essayist Roger Rosenblatt, award-winning playwright Robert Reeves and famed cartoonist and humor writer Jules Feiffer. Noted Disher "the whole idea for the one-act plays was to provide a springboard for young talent. "Sharing the skills of Allison and Derek with the gifts of the playwrights seemed to be an obvious and natural progression to further develop all their talents."