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South Campus The First 50 Years Essay

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Now south campus may not be the biggest or oldest college in the state, but surviving 50 years is a pretty good milestone in my book. Among other activities celebrating, the theatre department had their students create a show to commemorate this occasion. “South Campus: the First 50 Years”created and produced by Melinda Benton and performed by the theater students at the South Performing Arts center. To sum the show up in a sentence a fever dream turned educational. The show stars in the present day as our main character nods off to sleep and becomes the Doctor, A title that should not be taking lightly over the internet, where she travels with her reluctant companion. As her time as The Doctor she travels through time explaining the history of South Campus and how it has shaped since its beginning. The message that seemed to be conveyed is that it's trying to convince people to attend the school and as a …show more content…

In the context of the show all the characters at believable because each character plays as themselves and don't really change because everything is inside the dream. What makes this an say show to act is that you can't really say “ oh they were supposed to act this certain way” because it's the actors are playing themselves. Sound wise it was ok with it being such a small auditorium. Now if this show was put back in my auditorium at my high school this might have been a different story. When it comes it show design I would say it was lack luster. Scene transitions took longer than expected and there seem to be some missed sound and video queues. Costume wise I would say was on point but didn't really add anything but a few chuckles. To sum up the show I would say that it was definitely student made. Putting that as a baseline for a student show that had a very historical basis I would say it was good. The key word that would change my option is polish. But overall I enjoyed my

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