The MSU Department of Theatre is beginning 2015 with the unique production "Theatre2Film Project: Three Hundred and Thirteen Possibilities" Jan. 30-Feb. 8 in the Studio 60 Theatre at the MSU Auditorium.
This forward-thinking project, directed by media acting professor Mark Colson, has a script written by MSU Department of Theatre students. It will first be produced as a play, part of the MSU Department of Theatre 2014-15 season, Power Plays, and then adapted into a screenplay.
After the play closes in early February, the adapted screenplay will be shot as a feature film in collaboration with the Department of Media and Information, Media Sandbox at MSU, College of Music and Department of Art, Art History and Design.
Once the project starts filming, the students will undertake all key positions of production and actors will distill their performances for cinema. The film is slated to screen at the Traverse City Film Festival in July of 2015.
With a student-driven writing team that began in the summer of 2014, the script came together through exploration of storylines, characters and possible theme. With original songs, an original painting and an original script, all created by students for students, this is the ultimate collaborative experience that applies the classroom to the career.
Tickets are available from the Wharton Center Box Office, at 1-800-WHARTON or at www.whartoncenter.com.
Performances will take place on the following dates:
- 8 p.m., Jan. 30
- 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Jan. 31
- 2 p.m., Feb. 1
- 7:30 p.m., Feb. 4-5
- 8 p.m., Feb. 6
- 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Feb. 7
- 2 p.m., Feb. 8