Hello everyone!
KSTO will be hosting the fifth annual 24 Hour Play Festival on Friday, March 31st – Saturday, April 1st!
On Friday, March 31st, a company of 5 directors, 5 playwrights, and 20 actors or more will meet with ideas, props, and loads of excitement! Over the next 24 hours, new plays will be developed by this company and at 7:00 pm on Saturday, April 1st, the plays will be performed for an audience in Chapman Theatre! This is an exercise in exquisite pressure and practice for preparing art in a short amount of time. Outside of these two days, no commitment is asked of any of the participants. The point is to write and prepare EVERYTHING within a 24 hour window, challenging us all as students and artists. There will be an K-State Open House on April 1st, so people may come visit rehearsals!
If you would like to be a playwright, a director, OR an actor then please comment below. This year we are allowing co-playwrights. So if you want to, you may write as a team! But no co-directing teams please. A list will be compiled, and those who will be partaking in the play festival will be informed by Monday, March 27th. Please, signup with your name – director, actor, playwright.
Basic timeline for each
1. At 6:15 pm on March 31st, all playwrights, directors and actors will have a meeting to discuss what will happen in the next 24 hours. Actors will bring 3 props at this time.
2. Playwrights will begin writing immediately after the initial meeting on March 31st and have until 7 am to complete their scripts.
3. Actors and directors will arrive around 9 am on April 1st and begin putting together the show!
4. At 7:00 pm on April 1st, the “curtain” goes up! The performance will be open to the entire Manhattan community.
Finally, 24 Hour Play Festival is a charity event, so please think about bringing a couple of dollars or more to the performance on April 1st! We will announce the charity we will be donating to at the event! Thank you so much!
-KSTO officers