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Students challenge time during SMUST’s Combat Competition

 

 

SMU student theater issued the annual challenge to the juniors this past weekend – they would receive playwrighting prompts Friday night that needed to be turned into plays by Saturday at 8 p.m.

Known as “SMU Combat Theater,” the executive members of SMUST described this process as a “fight with time.”

 

This year the playwrights, Ezra Bookman, Katherine Bourne, Jessica Andrewartha, Audrey Gab, and John Paul Green, were given peculiar headlines from the news as prompts. 

 

This process led to plays full of political statements, satire, pop cultural references and uproarious situations.

 

The night began with Bookman’s play, “You are Your Own Best Stalker”, a play satirized the self-obsessed culture that sites like Facebook have created. This play starred Nick Cains, Ky Mack and Adam Anderson, who read facts about themselves, as pictures of them (primarily of the stunning, young actress Mack) flashed behind them. 

 

The plays that followed ranged from the ridiculous time-travel of actor Ted Gwara in Bourne’s “The Impossible Dream” to the politically charged statements about religious freedom in Adrewartha’s “Religious Protection.” The latter contained a must-see performance by Aneesha Kudtarkar. 

 

SMUST puts on shows throughout the year that are worth making a trip to the Meadows basement to see. 

 

Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming performances by your fellow students.

 

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