{"id":4215,"date":"2019-02-08T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2019-02-08T08:00:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T13:00:38","slug":"theatre-rc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4215","title":{"rendered":"Theatre RC Takes on the Regional Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Charissa Roberson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A representative of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) attended Theatre RC\u2019s fall production of \u201cOur Town\u201d on Nov. 17, 2018. The play and its participants received several nominations, including Directing for Dr. Lisa Warren, Scenic Design for Rob Bessolo, Costume Design for Jennie Ruhland, and Stage Management for Emma Daisey. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, sophomore Adeline Huggins and freshman Sarah Jane Ruppert were nominated for the prestigious Irene Ryan acting scholarship. \u00a0From Feb. 5-9, these two actresses and several other members of Theatre RC will attend the KCACTF in Spartanburg, SC, accompanied by Dr. Nelson Barre, assistant professor of Fine Arts at Roanoke College. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the course of the week, the Irene Ryan nominees will compete to progress through several rounds of performances\u2014including a monologue and selected scenes\u2014after which winners will be chosen to move on to the National Festival. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No matter what the outcome, however, attending the festival is itself an honor and an educational experience. \u00a0These RC students will have the opportunity to participate in workshops, attend plays and practice their craft, alongside other college students from across the region. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s the first time that Roanoke College has ever done this,\u201d \u00a0Huggins said, who is also competing in the Dramaturgy category. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a really cool opportunity for us to go and experience that and to come back and kind of share it with everybody else.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From Olin Hall to Spartanburg, these young actresses are taking their talents to the next level as they represent RC this week in South Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Charissa Roberson A representative of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) attended Theatre RC\u2019s fall production of \u201cOur Town\u201d on Nov. 17, 2018. The play and its participants received several nominations, including Directing for Dr. Lisa Warren, Scenic Design for Rob Bessolo, Costume Design for Jennie Ruhland, and Stage Management for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}