{"id":6151,"date":"2017-11-28T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:23:37","slug":"theatre-season-continues-with-short-and-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/28\/theatre-season-continues-with-short-and-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre season continues with &#8216;Short and Sweet&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/11\/Short-and-sweet.png\" class=\"broken_link\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/11\/Short-and-sweet-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6152 alignleft\" \/><\/a>The 2017-2018 theatre season at Missouri Western State University continues with \u201cShort and Sweet,\u201d a production of six one-act plays and five short films Nov. 30 to Dec. 3 in the Kemper Recital Hall inside Spratt Hall. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30, Dec. 1 and Dec. 2, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the plays will be directed by students. Kara McGhee will direct the evening\u2019s first play, \u201cClara and the Gambler.\u201d Abby Sexton will direct \u201cHold for Three.\u201d Two of the plays, \u201cThe Bluegrass of God\u201d and \u201cSure Thing,\u201d will be directed by Tee Quillin, associate professor of theatre. Jeff Stover, chair of the Department of Theatre, Cinema and Dance, will also direct two plays: \u201cDoll Cargo\u201d and \u201cBrights!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Between the live plays, student-directed short films will be presented:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c7 Minutes,\u201d by Charles Skyles<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGoodnight Kiss,\u201d by Beau Hill<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMusic Video,\u201d by Gabriel Barton<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTwo Rails from Hell,\u201d by Russell Gummelt<\/li>\n<li>\u201cClasp on Love,\u201d by Andy Coutts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gummelt\u2019s film, \u201cTwo Rails from Hell,\u201d was winner of Best Film at the Fault-Line Film Festival at Southeast Missouri State in Cape Girardeau.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for \u201cShort and Sweet\u201d are $12 for adults, $10 for Missouri Western faculty and staff, free for Missouri Western students with ID and $6 for all other students. To purchase tickets in advance, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/theatrecinema\/season\/\" class=\"broken_link\">mwsutix.com<\/a> or call 816-271-4452. \u00a0Tickets may also be purchased at the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017-2018 theatre season at Missouri Western State University continues with \u201cShort and Sweet,\u201d a production of six one-act plays and five short films Nov. 30 to Dec. 3 in the Kemper Recital Hall inside Spratt Hall. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30, Dec. 1 and Dec. 2, and 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8873,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions\/8873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}