Springfest 2003: In 3-D!

Springfest 2003: In 3-D! features 3 new works by emerging playwrights Spencer Driggers, Steven Gridley and Kerry McGuire. Each of the three plays will each have their own separate opening night performances: Sun, Stand Thou Still on Tuesday, June 24th at 8 p.m. Down Roadside on Wednesday, June 25th at 8 p.m. The Only Constant is Spare Change on Thursday, June 26th at 8 p.m. After the openings, Down Roadside and The Only Constant is Spare Change will perform together as BILL ONE and Sun, Stand Thou Still will perform as BILL TWO.

Bill One
Saturday, June 28th at 6 p.m., Sunday, June 29th at 9 p.m., Monday, June 30th at 8 p.m., Wednesday, July 2nd at 8 p.m., Friday, July 4th at 6 p.m. and Saturday, July 5th at 6 p.m.

Down Roadside, a new comedy by Spencer Driggers, directed and choreographed by Zenobia Taylor, combines hip-hop verse and modern dance with traditional theatre to explore the wavering integrity of memories and the heavy burden of personal responsibility. Blending sci-fi camp, absurd lingo, inventive physical movement, down home guitar music and a good old fashioned love triangle, (and featuring hip-hop narration by the playwright himself) the play asks pointed questions about the amount of faith that can be put into our memories.

The Only Constant is Spare Change, a company created theatre piece written by Kerry McGuire, directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde, explores the death of the American dream through Dante’s Inferno. Set in an isolated diner “out west,” Olga, an idealistic young waitress who dreams of moving to the “big city” to be the world’s greatest secretary, meets Mary, a former performer who has seen the world and retreated from it. Together, they live through each circle of hell as they continue a descent into the punished domain of the bored. They travel the world by going nowhere. They push each other’s limits of endurance and try to unearth the obvious and lame, in order to find some of the transcendent.

Bill Two
Friday, June 27th at 8 p.m., Saturday, June 28th at 9 p.m., Sunday, June 29th at 6 p.m., Tuesday, July 1st at 8 p.m., Thursday, July 3rd at 8 p.m. and Saturday, July 5th at 9 p.m.

Sun, Stand Thou Still by Steven Gridley, directed by Jacob Titus. This is a surrealistic play that follows the journey of a man, nearly blinded by a face-off with the sun, as he drives eternally westward. On this deserted and endless road he encounters an unlikely hitchhiker and a siren whose only goal is to sell her beautiful apples. But this woman is hunted. The police and the woman’s former lover are tracking her down and trying to piece together the mystery behind her various deaths. The play explores the limits of the driver’s ability to control the unexplainable world around him as he blindly pushes to reach the inevitable ocean, the end of his journey, to bury the woman he barely knew.