GC&SU claims drama prize
Milledgeville is home to one of the most prestigious awards for short drama in the entire nation.
The Arts & Letters Prize in Drama is awarded each year to an outstanding one-act play, providing $1000.00, publication and production in the spring Festival of Arts & Letters.
“There is no award like it in the country,” said David Muschell, drama editor for Georgia College & State University’s national literary journal, “Arts & Letters,” sponsored by GC&SU’s creative writing program in the Department of English, Speech and Journalism.
“One important aspect of the prize is the judging process,” said Muschell. “We’ve had some of the most outstanding playwrights in America as our final judges.”
After preliminary judging of the huge number of submissions to the competition, 10 finalists are sent to the final judge for selection of the winner. The first year, Horton Foote (Pulitzer Prize for The Young Man from Atlanta, Oscar for Tender Mercies) was the final judge. Christopher Durang (Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You) selected the winner in the second year. Last year, Lanford Wilson (Pulitzer Prize for Tally’s Folly) was the final judge. This year, John Guare (Six Degrees of Separation) selected the play, Blood Memory, by Chuck Spoler of Pennsylvania.
“Blood Memory” takes place on Memorial Day when Quinton leaves the confines of his hospital to visit the grave of his best friend who died in Vietnam. There he encounters an unusual stranger who opens Quinton’s heart and mind to the kinds of sacrifices we make for friends and loved ones and gives him understanding of his own deeply repressed flaws. Plans are to perform the play during this year’s festival on March 21 and 22.
Open auditions will be held on Thursday, Jan. 30 from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. in Arts & Sciences 3-70. Parts are available for five males. To schedule an audition slot, please contact David Muschell at 445-4018, email him at dmuschel@gcsu.edu or sign up on the sign-up sheet outside his office at Arts & Sciences 3-25.
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on Jan 24 2003. Filed under Other.
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