Northwest Arkansas FACES, Compiled by Brandi Guthrie
Morgan Mansour, a 17-year-old Fayetteville High School student, is one of four Arkansas high school students whose play has been selected to be performed as part of “Discovery Arkansas”.
“Discovery Arkansas” is the joint effort of David Jolliffe, the Brown Chair in English Literacy in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas, and TheatreSquared. The project’s goal is to support high school playwrights in creating new scripts that will then be performed by trained actors from the university’s drama department and TheatreSquared during the New Play Festival on March 27-28.
Clinnesha Dillon, who is working on a master of fine arts degree in the Fulbright College, is mentoring the four playwrights from high schools in Arkansas as they develop their scripts from brief narratives into one-act plays ready to be performed. The students have begun working on their scripts, which will bring some aspect of Arkansas history and culture to life.
Mansour is writing “Opera House,” the story of a grieving mother who pays her young daughter a surprise visit in a large Northern city.
The preceding week, faculty and theater professionals from the English department, drama department and TheatreSquared will work with the writers and trained actors to prepare for staged readings of their works during the festival at the Nadine Baum Studios in the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville.
Publication:Northwest Arkansas Times; Date:Feb 22, 2009
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