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Theatre Columbus State summer performance will be outdoors

Student News | Monday, July 18, 2022

Actors outside the Library (Columbus Hall) during a dress rehearsal on July 12, Halen Hartman leans on a ladder, then, left to right from the background, Scott Douglas Wilson, Mark Mann, Cody Gatewood, and Jayce Caleb Rentrop.

Above, actors outside the Library (Columbus Hall) during a dress rehearsal on July 12, Halen Hartman leans on a ladder, then, left to right from the background, Scott Douglas Wilson, Mark Mann, Cody Gatewood, and Jayce Caleb Rentrop.

For the first time, Theatre Columbus State will present an outdoor walking-tour performance using the amphitheaters at Columbus and Mitchell halls. The cast includes four students and 24 guest artists. The cast will present “Spoon River,” adapted and directed by Sonda Staley, adjunct Humanities professor. Staley says the collection of monologues is based on Edgar Lee Masters’ poems about the ghostly residents of a cemetery in Spoon River, a fictional Midwestern town. 

The performance will be held Wednesday through Saturday, July 20-23, at 7 p.m. The performance begins at Columbus Hall (the Library) and then moves to Mitchell Hall. Admission is free. In addition, free parking is available around Mitchell Hall, 250 Cleveland Ave. (In the event of rain, the performance will be held in Nestor Hall Auditorium.)

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The poster for the Theatre performance.

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