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| Shaw’s ‘Misalliance’
comes to Valborg Wednesday |
Stephanie
Marshall
Entertainment Beat |
Mike Rominger | University PhotographerGeorge Bernard Shaw’s comedy
“Misalliance” will be on campus Wednesday - Sunday at
8 p.m. in Valborg Theater with a matinee showing Sunday at 2 p.m.
The cost for students is $6 and $10 for general public.
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George Bernard Shaw’s
comedy “Misalliance” will be performed in Valborg Theatre
Wednesday through Sunday.
This performance of “Misalliance,” presented by Appalachian
State University’s department of theatre and dance, is directed
by assistant professor of theatre Derek P. Gagnier.
This will be the first play he has directed since coming to Appalachian
last year.
Assisting Gagnier is a faculty design team including Dr. Frank Mohler
and R. Keith Pugh, who will work with the lights, and Martha M.
Marking, who will work with costumes and make up, according to the
press release.
“I fell in the love with the play when I performed in a 1998
production of ‘Misalliance,’ where I played the character
‘the Gunner,’ but I wanted to play Bentley,” Gagnier
said Thursday. “I love Shaw and have loved him since.”
“I love it, and I think it is really an exceptional, well-written
comedy,” sophomore theatre arts education major Scott D. Bean
said Thursday.
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The play
is set in pastoral Surry, England, in 1909, according to the press
release.
“In the first five minutes you have a fist fight between
two young guys, an airplane, two pilots and enough young characters
so it is more accessible than normal shows,” Gagnier said.
The plot entails a misalliance between a wealthy middle class merchant’s
daughter, Hypatia, and the wimpy son of a politician and aristocrat,
Bentley, better known as “Bunny.”
The plot thickens when an airplane crashes in the back yard of the
middle class Tarleton family’s house.
In the plane is a tall, dark and handsome gentleman and a Polish
circus woman.
“I like how it deals with the relationships between parents
and children, the importance of education and the balance between
brain and brawny,” Gagnier said.
“Misalliance” is loaded with warm wit, physical comedy,
romantic intrigue, secret liaisons and hilarious surprises, according
to the press release.
The cast includes senior Matt G. Harris as Bentley Summerhays, sophomore
Rickey G. Glover as Johnny Tarleton, sophomore Scott J. Hoppmann
as Lord Summerhays, junior Jessica C. Pearson as Hypatia, senior
Marie C. Anderson as Mrs. Tarleton, sophomore Scott Bean as Tarleton,
junior Joriah Wade as Joey Percival, senior Anna K. Summers as Lina
Szczepanowska, and senior Josh K. Price as the Gunner.
“I have only been in a one act, never in a main production,
and I absolutely love the cast; we have become best friends,”
Summers said Thursday.
The cast has been working hard for five weeks, Gagnier said.
He said they are an extremely professional group.
“I would not want to go out on any other show,” Price
said Thursday.
The performance will start at 8 p.m. each night with a 2 p.m. matinee
on Sunday.
Tickets are $6 for students and $10 for the general public and are
available at the Valborg Theatre box office. |
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