ONE-ACT PLAYS SET FOR DEBUTS.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - One-act plays are in abundance this season as both the Palmdale Playhouse and Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. present their collections. The Playhouse one-acts will open tonight. The college's production, opening Friday, highlights the work of four students. Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley College's Original One-Act Festival has been expanded to four plays on two weekends. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Feb. 6 and Feb. 7, and 2 p.m. on Sunday in the Black Box Theater For the theater in Oslo, Norway, see Black Box Teater. The black box theater is a relatively recent innovation, consisting of a simple, somewhat unadorned performance space, usually a large square room with black walls and a flat floor. at Antelope Valley College, 3041 W. Ave. K, Lancaster. Tickets are $5. The playwrights are Tony Carrillo Tony Carrillo is the creator of F Minus, an offbeat comic strip. Carrillo started the comic strip at Arizona State University, when he was in his sophomore year. After winning an online contest to determine the best college comic strip, Tony was awarded a deal with United Media. , Elizabeth Clark Elizabeth Thoms Clark (nee Carswell) was born 22 June 1918 near Newcastle. She wanted to be a writer and her first play for an adult audience was a school play, Cinderella in French. Based in Glasgow, she wrote poetry. , J. Nicholas Janssen, and Steve Pearman. Carrillo's ``The Watercolor Girl'' records the collision of two people, one who seeks to unlock the love from his past, the other who wants to escape the love from her past. Clark's ``Super Plants and Toe Food'' follows a lion and a panda as they find out each other's secrets. Janssen's ``The King in Yellow'' is a fable about a king who brings in otherworldly help to squelch squelch v. squelched, squelch·ing, squelch·es v.tr. 1. To crush by or as if by trampling; squash. 2. his passionate daughters' plans. Pearman's ``The Moment'' takes place near life and death as a boy and a young woman discover who they are. The playwrights are all Antelope Valley College students under the instruction of Eugenie Trow trow intr.v. trowed, trow·ing, trows 1. Archaic To think. 2. Obsolete To suppose. [Middle English trowen, from Old English . The Palmdale City Players' second annual One-Act Festival is 7:30 p.m. tonight, Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Shows next week are 7:30 p.m. Feb. 5-7 and 2 p.m. Feb. 8. The Palmdale festival presents seven comedies, split into two different shows. Three plays, called Stave 1, will be presented tonight, Feb. 6 and Feb. 8. They begin with ``Overtones'' by Alice Gerstenberg, telling the story of two women as they appear to each other and their alter egos who tell what the women are really thinking. ``Three Women'' by Albert Brown The name Albert Brown can refer to:
Finally, four members of the Golden Age Center give their impressions of certain staff members in the comedy ``It's All in Fun'' by Albert Brown. Stave 2 will be performed Friday, Sunday, Feb. 5 and Feb. 7. It starts off with a satirical look at a group of men at a bridge game in ``If Men Played Cards as Women Do'' by George Kauffman Dr. George B. Kauffman was born in 1930. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Dr. Kauffman is currently a Professor of Chemistry at California State University, Fresno. . Then it is the women's turn in ``If Women Worked as Men Do'' by Ellen Goodfellow, with a look at how a hard day at the office really is through the eyes of the women who hear all about it. ``It's a Small World'' by Albert Brown finds two senior citizens meeting by accident in a hotel lobby and discovering they have the rest of their lives in common. Wrapping up the night of comedy is ``A Bench in the Park'' by Albert Brown, the story of an elderly gentleman who spends his days on a park bench feeding not only the pigeons but his mind as well. Tickets to the festival are $7 for adults and $5 for senior citizens, military, students and youths age 12 and under. For more information or to order tickets, call (661) 267-5685 - or order tickets online at www.cityofpalmdale.org/tickets. For 24-hour recorded information on the festival, call (661) 267-ARTS. For more information call (661) 722-6425 or e-mail etrow(at)avc.edu. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Co-directors David Smith, left, and Bill Armstrong Bill Armstrong (born June 25, 1966 in London, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played in one NHL game for the Philadelphia Flyers during the 1990-91 NHL season and spent the rest of his professional career in the AHL and IHL. , right, talk to players in ``Overtones'' set for the Palmdale Playhouse. (2) Bob Meadows, left, and Ed Vega will appear in ``It's All in Fun'' at the Palmdale Playhouse One-Act Festival. |
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