Domino Players Production Invited
to Perform at Regional Festival
The Domino Players production of Waiting
for Godot by Samuel Beckett was one
of seven theatre productions in a five-state
region invited to be part of the 2007 Kennedy
Center American College Theatre Festival,
Region II. Albright was the only small liberal
arts college selected. The festival was held in
January 2007 at SUNY-New Paltz.
Waiting for Godot, directed by Jeffrey
Lentz ’85, artist in residence, was originally
performed at Albright in September 2006.Two other productions from the 2006 season,
Tartuffe by Moliere and Top Girls by Caryl
Churchill, also received nominations.
The selection committee recognized
the Albright production as one of the most
significant and noteworthy college productions
of 2006 in a five-state region, including
Delaware, Washington, D.C., Maryland,
New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. A
national selection team saw the production in
January and will consider it for the Kennedy
Center national festival in April.
In addition to Albright, the schools selected
were: SUNY-Oswego, SUNY-Albany, Kutztown
University, Long Island University-C.W.
Post, SUNY-Brockport and the University of
the Arts.
“It is a great honor to have our production
re-mounted at the festival as a celebration
of the best of undergraduate theatre in the region!” said Julia Matthews, chair and
associate professor of theatre.
In 2004, Spirale, an original theatrical
collage created and directed by Lentz from
the writings of Antonin Artaud, the characters
of Alfred Jarry’s UBU Plays, and the music
of composers Peter Tchaikovsky and Dmitri
Shostakovich, was also selected to perform at
the festival.
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