The Matchmaker Selected for Regional Festival; Fundraising Performance 1/24

From Connie Lester, Redfern: KSC students, staff, and community members from the fall production of Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker have been invited to participate in the Region I Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival at Fitchburg State College January 27–February 1. The festival brings students and faculty together to see some of the area’s strongest productions, participate in workshops, and compete in a variety of areas in theatrical performance, design, and production.

Keene State is one of five New England colleges selected from the 116 adjudicated for inclusion in the festival. Regional productions are adjudicated by a national committee and may be selected to participate in the national festival in Washington, D.C., in April 2009. During the festival, The Matchmaker will be staged at the Dukakis Center in Fitchburg, Mass., on Friday, January 30, at 8 p.m. Admission is $10 and is open to the public.

To help raise funds, The Matchmaker will be staged at Keene State’s Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond on January 24, at 7:30 p.m. Admission will be by donation at the door. If you cannot attend the performance and would like to help, donations can be mailed to the KSC Theatre and Dance Department with a memo noting “The Matchmaker fund,” Keene State College, 229 Main St., Keene, 03435-2407. For more information, call the Theatre and Dance Department at 8-2162.

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