{"id":24533,"date":"2010-03-31T10:55:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T15:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=24533"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:24:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:24:31","slug":"labute-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/31\/labute-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"Four to perform Neil LaBute's 'Bash'"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The three-in-one play Bash<\/em> by Neil LaBute, a writer and director critically acclaimed for his bleak, blunt view of human relations, is the vehicle for performances by four Bates College students at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1, and Saturday and Sunday, April 3 and 4, in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall, 305 College St.<\/p>\n

Admission is free. For more information, please contact 207-786-6161.
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\nBash<\/em> is an evening-length work composed of three short plays: “Iphigenia in Orem,” “A Gaggle of Saints,” and “Medea Redux.” Katalin Vescey, lecturer in theater and the college’s vocal coach, directs the production, which fulfills a requirement for the performers’ independent studies in performance.<\/p>\n

The performers are Rory Cosgrove, a junior from Prospect, Pa.; Drew Gallagher, a junior from Lowell, Mass.; Caroline Servat, a senior from San Francisco; and Marielle Vigneau-Britt, a senior from Canton, Conn.<\/p>\n

The plays depict essentially good Latter-day Saints doing disturbing and violent things. “I purposefully directed these plays on a bare stage, with harsh lighting and with no movement on stage at all,” says Vecsey, “because the power is in the text, in the voice and in the character performances.”<\/p>\n

Bash<\/em> comprises two monologues and one scene with two actors. Essentially, it’s made up of edgy and provocative 40-minute soliloquies in which the characters directly address a silent interlocutor. Ben Brantley of The New York Times describes his experience of the plays as “a transfixing evening.”<\/p>\n

“Solo performances present a great challenge to any actor,” Vescey says. “I pushed my students really hard with these texts.<\/p>\n

“It was worth it. I feel honored to be part of this semester-long independent-study project because LaBute’s characters on stage became brutally real.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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