Charlotte's Web, based on E.B. White’s novel, enchanted young audiences through the touching friendship between Charlotte, the spider, and Wilbur, the pig.
Mississippi State’s Theatre MSU continues its 60th season this month with a theatrical production highlighting the chaos and confusion of teenage life. Sarah DeLappe’s award-winning “The Wolves”—a Pulitzer Prize finalist script depicting young women of a high school soccer team as they gather weekly for practice—is presented on the McComas Hall main stage Feb. 28-March 2.
Jaclyn Backhaus’ Men On Boats delves into the dynamics of ten explorers on the first expedition (of white men) down the Colorado River to a “big” canyon. Raised in Arizona, Backhaus had heard about the journey during her child- hood and wanted to adapt it for the stage. In the process she realized that she was interested in the story in part because she felt that she would never play the part of a nineteenth-century explorer—and that writing it was her way of vicariously living their adventure. -From an essay by Summer Banks
Co-produced by TheatreMSU and Blackfriar's Drama Society and completely student-produced and student-directed.
Director: Tonya Hays; Stage Manager: Donovan Andrade; Scenic and Lighting Design: Matt Webb; Projection and Sound Design: Donovan Andrade and Walker Harris; Prop Design: Abbigail Radius
