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Festival brings young actors to Lincoln
2000Int’l Thespian Festival offers students a chance to showcase skills
By Melanie Mensch
Staff uriter
The thespians have landed in
Lincoln. They’re swarming into
downtown restaurants. They’re
congregating by the Union foun
tain, sunbathing and splashing in
the water. They’re trekking from
Kimball Hall to the Lied Center
and back to Howell Hall again,
maps in hand. And it’s all for the
love of theatre.
Most young, aspiring actors,
designers and directors desire
the limelight of New York City,
Chicago or Los Angeles to
enlighten their theatre careers,
t But hordes of i.d.-wearing, teen
t aged thespians from all over the
S United States and Canada have
landed on the UNL campus this
! week for the 2000 International
Thespian Festival.
Sponsored by the
| Educational Theatre
I Association, the 2000
International Thespian Festival
offers high school and middle
school theatre buffs opportuni
ties to showcase their talents and
more importantly, learn to polish
their theatre skills.
“It’s kind of like the National
Honor Society for theatre,” said
Please see THESPIANS on 7
Josh nbife/DN
TOP: AFTER a half hoar of makeup work Diaao Tusk from Qoorgla oatartaias horsalf ana a crowd of
observers with aa impersonation of a witch. High Scbeol students will he on campus all wsok attending
workshops and plays during the International Thespian Festival.
ABOVE: KEN TRAVIS, playing Mortimer in the musical "The Fantastic*” Wednesday night at the Howell
Theater, perfonaes a short monologue. As part of the International Thespian Festival, the Shorewood
High School Drama Department from Shorewood, Wis. put on the play Tuesday and Wednesday nights.