Thespian Festival

Hey, there's a thespian festival going on in town, and it starts today! My pal Stephen Vance sends along this info:

The WV Thespian Festival is the annual theatre event for high schools around the state.

It runs April 2 - 4. This year's festival is being held at Marshall University. There will be workshops for the students as well as competitions for plays, scenes, monologues, and technical projects.

Here are some of the workshops the students will be allowed to participate in: Resumes, Dialects, Sensory Recall, Elizabethan Movement, Victorian Movement, Improv, Masks, Injuries and Effects, Lighting, Scene Painting, and more. These workshops will be taught by Jack Cirillo, Gene Anthony, Mike Murphy, Joan St. Germain and Deborah Carder-Deem.

The schools competing in the one act play competition are: Musselman High, Huntington High, Musselman Middle, Magnolia High, Princeton High, Parkersburg High, Parkersburg South, Capital High, Oak Glen High, Fairmont Senior, Webster County, Martinsburg High and Wyoming East.

Throughout the festival there will be tons of other events. It's a wonderful festival that is a great experience for all involved.