Category: Drama

Art, Campus, Drama

Drama Students stage ‘Twentieth Century’

Nomaan Khan

The Drama Department will open its fall production, “Twentieth Century,” on Nov. 9 in the Sue Sellors Finley Theatre. The play is a comedy-farce set in the 1930s aboard the Twentieth Century Limited train travelling from Chicago to New York City. Originally a classic comedy by playwrights Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur it has been updated and adapted by Ken Ludwig into its current version. Drama major Logan Berger plays Oscar Jaffe, the lead character. Jaffe is a struggling Broadway director who is making one last-ditch effort to win over former lover Lily Garland, played by Krysten Garcia. This production…

Community, Drama

Local production looking for extras

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Local independent filmmaker Taylor Rae Carmona is looking for extras and crew assistants for her second independent film production. The film is based on events that took place in Kingsville in the 1960s. The Spanish-language film spotlights Mexican-Americans in South Texas. “‘The Barrio Poet’ tells the story of two Mexican men that meet at a small bar and learn they are both fans of poetry and literature,” Carmona said. The film is on a micro-budget, so participants will not be paid. However, Carmona said, in exchange for participation, actors and crew members are offered final credit, craft services, digital access…

Community, Drama

Murder, mystery and money

Catherine Herndon

Group plans interactive fundraiser to help foster children A local nonprofit hopes to raise funds through a hair-raising interactive murder mystery event. Agape Ranch, which aims to establish a self-sustaining foster care community and housing programs for young adults during their college years, has planned a Mystery, Murder and Masquerade fundraiser from 6:30-10 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Corpus Christi Yacht Club. Guests will be treated to an interactive murder mystery, live and silent auctions and hors d’oeuvres. Everyone attending is encouraged to wear masquerade attire and a mask. However, 30 masks made by foster children will be available for…

Campus, Drama

DMC drama hosts ‘Bald Soprano’

Julieta Hernandez

Production offers a hilarious satire on ordinary middle class Eugene Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano,” produced and performed by the Del Mar College Drama Department, offered audience members a light-hearted existential crisis, along with punch and cookies during intermission. The play opened April 13, with Student Appreciation Night on April 19. Most have never had an experience with “theater of the absurd,” defined as “drama using the abandonment of conventional dramatic form to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world.” It’s a genre of theater that seems to stray from the ordinary and introduces the psyche of the…

Drama, Entertainment, Opinions

‘The Bald Soprano’ wonderfully quirky

Julieta Hernandez

DMC drama production continues this weekend Eugene Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano,” produced and performed by the Del Mar College Drama Department, offers audience members a light-hearted existential crisis, along with punch and cookies during intermission. The play opened April 13 and will run again April 19 – 21, with free admission for students April 19. Most have never had an experience with “theater of the absurd,” defined as “drama using the abandonment of conventional dramatic form to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world.” It’s a genre of theater that seems to stray from the ordinary and…