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From Issue #6, Fall 2004
Editor's
Note: The following is reprinted with permission from the Pratt
Tribune (Kansas). As a matter of policy Readers Theatre Digest
encourages experimentation and innovation in the theatre form we call
Readers Theatre. This is how one Community College Theatre Department
is using Readers Theatre. We will include a follow-up story in the next
issue. In the meantime RTD would
like to hear from individuals and groups that are or have been involved
in similar projects. Ed.
PCC
seeks local war stories for Reader's Theatre
By Gale Rose of the (Pratt)
Tribune Staff
A search is on
for men and women in the military who are willing to share their war
stories in a special Reader's Theatre performance at Pratt (Kansas)
Community College on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005, said Rose Beilman, PCC
instructor of theatre.
Actors will read
the stories to the audience adding dramatic interpretation.
Needed are letters
or e-mails from Americans in war time that soldiers, family or friends
are willing to share.
"I'm looking
for material that will read well in performance, so dramatic or personal
material is desirable," Beilman said. "Material that shows
the personal difficulties and individual triumphs is especially needed."
Material should
include the persons identity, their rank and branch of service, armed
conflict they were in, where they served and any other pertinent information.
Wanted are materials
from all U.S. wars in the last 100 years if possible. Little material
has been published about U.S. armed conflict in the three years since
9-11 so that material would be especially welcome.
Rehearsals for
the readers theatre begin in December so materials need to be sent by
Dec. 1.
(FMI: roseb@prattcc.edu
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