John Wright Performs for Alvernia Theatre

2014 Dec 9

John Wright of Philadelphia, Pa., played the Knight in "A Merry Death" and "Puppets at the Fairground" for the fall 2014 season of Alvernia Theatre. Wright is a Math major at the university.

"Puppets at the Fairground" is a play with dance. One of Russia's outstanding turn of the 20th century poets, Alexander Blok, wrote a farce about traditional theatrical characters Pierrot, Columbina, and Harlequin. Harlequin is a precursor to Bugs Bunny while Pierrot is the white-faced clown seen in many a curio shop.

"A Merry Death" is a short curtain-raiser Harlequinade in which Harlequin must party more hours than he sleeps in one day, or he'll die.

"Low Level Panic" by Clare McIntyre centers on three young women - Jo, Mary, and Celia - who are flat-mates in London. In the play, Mary has recently been the victim of violent assault, and the ways in which the women do or don't respond to this fact reveals much about them and the society in which they live. Media images of women is an undeniable force in the lives of these women, affecting them in ways that range from the imperceptible to utterly devastating.

Alvernia's cast of "Low Level Panic" has been selected to perform in Cleveland for the regional Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, January 2015.