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Deadly 7 Page-to-Stage Festival Staff Pick
For 14 years, Wasatch Theatre Co. has provided one of Utah's most reliable showcases for new work by new playwrights with its annual Page-to-Stage Festival. For the most part, the works produced are the same ones presented to the company for consideration. But in an effort to shake things up, Wasatch has thrown a little devil into the details. In the spirit of artistic "iron [fill-in-the-blank]" challenges that give creative people a fixed time frame to create works within certain specific parameters, the 2015 Page-to-Stage Festival welcomed playwrights accepted through the regular submission process, then presented them with a twist. The seven writers would each be assigned to write a short play thematically connected to one of the seven deadly sins—pride, envy, greed, sloth, lust, wrath and gluttony. But they'd also be given a few additional tasks: incorporating a predetermined line of dialogue, one specific prop and writing for a specific cast. Playwrights Sherry Allred, Beth Bruner, Elise Hanson, Jim Martin, Ryan Noufer, George Plautz and David Sanderson make up the lucky septet who took on the challenge—and handed it off to the seven-member cast: Alyssa Franks, Michelle Hall, Natalie Keezer, Malinda Money, Brian Pilling, Michele Rideout and Allen Smith (with writers Martin and Plautz also acting as segment directors). The result is a diverse evening of theater, from comedy to drama. And you get a chance to pay for their sins. (Scott Renshaw)
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Rose Wagner Center
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