Marshall University\u2019s theatre program will open the semester Wednesday, Feb. 17, with \u201cMauritius,\u201d a dramatic tale about stamp collecting.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
After their mother\u2019s death, two estranged half-sisters, Jackie, played by Story Moosa, and Mary, played by Mandy Harper, discover a book of rare stamps that may include the crown jewel for collectors. A masculine trio (Ethan Lyvers, Remy Sylvain and M.G. Dalton) willing to do anything to claim the rare find as their own further complicates the struggle between the sisters.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Nicole Perrone, \u201cMauritius\u201d director and associate professor of acting and movement at Marshall, said the struggle between characters manifests in violence and adult language throughout the play.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are numerous examples of combat interwoven throughout this story,\u201d Perrone said. \u201cReally, every single actor participates in the stage combat in some way.\u201d<\/p>\n Perrone said students and graduates have lent their skills to the combat facet of the production. Recent Marshall theatre graduate Ryan Cardwell serves as the fight choreographer, and current theatre student and \u201cMauritius\u201d actor Ethan Lyvers has been serving as the fight captain.<\/p>\n Lang Reynolds, Marshall\u2019s professor of lighting and design, worked with Perrone to develop a flexible, more abstract space.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we work in our Francis-Booth Experimental Theatre, it gives us the opportunity to use the floor of the stage as a design element,\u201d Perrone said. \u201cI sent him a picture early on of a collage of stamps that were pasted over and overlapping, and that was a texture I was hoping he could incorporate in his scenic design, and he did just that. The entire story plays out on top of this stamp collage that anchors us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marshall University\u2019s theatre program will open the semester Wednesday, Feb. 17, with \u201cMauritius,\u201d a dramatic tale about stamp collecting.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theatre-news"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/files\/2016\/05\/nicole1-768x514.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}