NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Feb. 27.
PORT ANGELES — This year’s Find Your Voice Play Festival, a theater showcase with plays by students and others across and beyond the North Olympic Peninsula, promises short works, novel ideas and energetic acting all weekend at Peninsula College’s Little Theater.
With performances at 7:30 tonight and Saturday night and at 2 p.m. Sunday, festival admission is $8 general and $6 for seniors and non-Peninsula College students with ID, while students at Peninsula College get in free.
Three odd items
In this festival, playwrights must use three things in their scripts — within the 10-minute time maximum.
For 2015, the trio of odd items are “Rick Flare the wrestler,” “Canada” and “a candle.”
Bringing such things together makes for stories you’d never expect, even in your wildest dreams, said Lara Starcevich, the Peninsula College drama professor who is the event’s artistic director.
“Part of the fun,” she added, “is to play the part of a sleuth and listen carefully for where the three elements are placed.”
Wide-ranging
The wide-ranging showcase includes stories by local students as well as by Peninsula College English professor Michael Mills; Indonesia-born Mirza Aditya Rachmat; Ron Frankel of Boynton Beach, Fla.; Zan Manning of Port Townsend; and Catherine Cote, who recently moved from Sedona, Ariz., to Sequim.
Here are the plays to come alive during the festival:
■ “It’s Just a Number,” written by Zan Manning and directed by Paul Rynearson.
■ “Dancing to Saskatoon,” written by Anna Andersen and Chaz Stephens and directed by Anna Andersen.
■ “Hitchhike,” written by Mirza Aditya Rachmat and directed by Hannah Hendrickson.
■ “In the Moment,” written by Catherine Cote and directed by Anna Andersen.
■ “Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow,” written by Ron Frankel and directed by Nessa Urban.
■ “The Morning After,” written by Ron Frankel and directed by Kati Herreid.
■ “Yukon Miracle 1897,” written by Michael Mills and directed by Paul Rynearson.
Actors appearing in these productions include high school and college students and community members.
They are Bonnie Booth, Pete Griffin, Tavin Dotson, D. Jon Greene, Fiona Humphrey, Samantha Jones, Rosie Matlock, Angela Rausch, Mike Roggenbuck, Paul Rynearson, Jane Rynearson, Melissa Sackor, Derek Smith, Nessa Urban and Raven Young.
The production crew includes Starcevich, stage manager Forrest-Patrick W. Rees, assistant stage manager Ben Catterson, lighting board operator Rebecca Travis, drama department support technician Pete Griffin, production assistant Jennifer Roggenbuck and assistant stage manager for sound Ezekiel Joy Oguntade.
For more information about the Find Your Voice Play Festival, contact Starcevich at laras@pencol.edu or 360-417-6478.
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Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5062, or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.
