Anathan Theatre
“Little Women” brings laughter and tears to Anathan Theatre
By Anabel Stickney Staff Writer Complete with hilarious friendships, heated sibling rivalry and unconventional dancing techniques, “Little Women” brought Anathan Theatre to life with performances on Nov. 10-11, 17-18 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 12 and 19 at 2 p.m. The production of “Little Women” performed by the Franciscan University of Steubenville theatre department was […]
Garish and gaudy meet in Shakespearean farce of mistaken identity
ALLEGRA THATCHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF “A juxtaposition of serious and stupid” is how director John Walker, assistant professor of theater, described the semester’s main stage production, “The Comedy of Errors.” Following on the heels of the Russian farce “The Government Inspector,” this show from William Shakespeare is also being played as a slapstick. Walker has taken inspiration […]
Senior one-acts explore interpersonal relationships and interior droughts
S. MICHAEL HUTCHESON STAFF WRITER While most students are looking forward to Thanksgiving break and the rest it will hopefully bring, two senior theatre majors are working non-stop to prepare for their one-act performances that will debut when students return. Senior theatre majors Greg Demary and Alicia Libetti have been hard at work since the […]
Russian farce puts flawed humanity on trial
JOSEPH FUSSELMAN STAFF WRITER While theatre usually shows an audience its own flaws, this semester’s show in Anathan Theatre will go above and beyond to bring the grotesqueness of human flaws to center stage. Since August, Franciscan University of Steubenville’s theatre department has been diligently rehearsing “The Government Inspector” by Russian playwright Nikolai Gogol. The […]
A lack of limelight: Anathan’s hidden superpower
ALLEGRA THATCHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF To the audience, they are names on a program. To the actors, they are what keeps the show together. Behind the walls of the stage in Anathan Theatre, there is a team of over a dozen people who works quietly and without acknowledgement except by those on stage. As the theatre department […]
The man among the masks
JOHN GALLAGHER SPORTS EDITOR The last time his computer contracted a virus, it was in Arabic. He finished his law degree in the Netherlands. He can fashion chair coverings from sheep’s wool. He assigns computer games for homework. And though he may very well be the most interesting man on Franciscan’s campus, one defining characteristic […]
Fine Arts Column: Art should make you feel uncomfortable
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST If you have seen any of the plays that have been put on the Anathan theatre stage this semester…you doubtless felt uncomfortable at one point or another. Fine Between the deep, gripping, emotional, and intense main stage of ‘The Elephant Man,’ the craziness of the one act ‘Salome,’ and the […]
Senior theatre majors take last bow with final one-act performances
RACHEL MILLER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST Students filed into Anathan Theatre last weekend for the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday performances of the senior-directed one-acts, “The Insanity of Mary Girard” and “Salome.” “The Insanity of Mary Girard” was directed by senior theatre major Nick Vicinanzo. The play is about a woman in the 1790s who was wrongly […]
Fine Arts Column: Holding the mirror up to nature
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST You know what one of the most ironic things is about theatre? It actually exposes the audience way more than it does the actors. Understandably, most seem to believe that when they go to watch any sort of play being performed that it is those on the stage who are […]
Fine Arts Column: Artists never fail
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Just a few weeks ago, only three days shy of the spring semester, I went to a large audition. Each actor auditioning got 90 seconds to show the dozens of casting directors what they had. They could recite only monologues or include a short song. Some even got to attend […]