BOONE, Iowa—The DMACC Boone Campus Spring Theatre activity will be a presentation of three-one act plays on April 7th and 8th. Tickets cost $5 per person and may be purchased at the door. DMACC students receive free admission with their DMACC One cards. All three plays are directed by DMACC Drama Department Professor Kay Mueller.
DMACC Boone Campus students Bonnie Rozenbeck (left), a second year Engineering Transfer student from Boone, and Pragul Siva, a second year Computer Science student from Ames, rehearse a scene from the upcoming performance of Inside the Department of the Exterior by Philip Hall. The play is one of three one-act plays to be performed at 7:30 p.m. April 7 and 8 in the Boone Campus Theatre.
Inside the Department of the Exterior centers around a man who goes to his local zoning office with the simple request of wanting to install a new mailbox. But with all the forms, questions, and bureaucratic red tape, this “simple request,” gets a whole lot more complicated.
Burglar Lucas Preston (right), a first year Physics student from Ames, holds the stolen pearls as Caroline, played by Kaylin Johnson of Boone, watches in horror. The Boone Campus students are rehearsing a scene from the one-act play, Goodnight, Caroline by Conrad Seiler.
Goodnight, Caroline was written in 1928 and centers around Caroline’s desire to have things her way and her inability to let her husband, Alfred, sleep on this particular night. At 2 a.m., a burglar climbs through a window into Caroline’s and Alfred’s bedroom. Startled by a noise, he hides in the closet. Caroline excitedly calls to Alfred. He must search the house at once. Grudgingly, Alfred looks under the beds and, in the closet, but finds no one. Caroline insists that he search the entire house. After Alfred leaves, the burglar steps from the closet and begins to ransack the room. But he reckons with Caroline, who has always had her way.
DMACC Boone Campus students Kaylin Johnson (left) of Boone and Sondra Wilson of Ames point guns at each other in a rehearsal for the upcoming production of On the Porch One Crisp Spring Morning by Alex Dremann. Wilson plays the mother and Johnson the daughter in this one-act play.
On the Porch One Crisp Spring Morning was written in 2009. One beautiful, crisp spring morning, a mother and daughter sip really good coffee on the porch. Both are secret agents. And they have been assigned to kill each other.
(contributed press release and photos, DMACC)
