God of My Own World: In Depth

MISHAWAKA—The The­atre De­part­ment is putting on a new pro­duc­tion! Most of you have prob­a­bly seen the posters around cam­pus ad­ver­tis­ing God of My Own World. The play was writ­ten by Bethel grad­u­ate, We­sely Lantz. 

“I think it is im­por­tant to sup­port lo­cal [the­atre] work. What’s dif­fi­cult about stu­dent-writ­ten plays is that be­cause no­body knows about it, they are less likely to come to it. A lot of peo­ple can find some re­ally spe­cial things from stu­dent writ­ten plays, es­pe­cially be­cause it is writ­ten by your peers. They all have a voice and they all have some­thing to say, and it is just a re­ally spe­cial ex­pe­ri­ence. I would love it if peo­ple came to see it as I have been work­ing on this for a long time and I would re­ally like to share it with as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble,” said Lantz. 

The play could also be se­lected for the Kennedy Cen­ter Amer­i­can Col­lege The­ater Fes­ti­val. The play is cen­tered around a man named Adam who deals with char­ac­ters from a play he had writ­ten in the past. Through this, there is a de­te­ri­o­ra­tion of Adam’s men­tal state as the char­ac­ters be­come more per­va­sive and as he in­ter­acts with peo­ple who are not there. The play is a drama with a few mo­ments of com­edy, and mainly deals with psy­chol­ogy and men­tal ill­ness.  

The The­atre De­part­ment be­gan work­ing on this play last se­mes­ter, and the stu­dents have been able to play a role in work­shop­ping the pro­duc­tion, which is a truly unique ex­pe­ri­ence for them. It will be ex­cit­ing to see how the show turns out. The play will be tak­ing place this week­end so be sure to sup­port your fel­low Pi­lots and get your tick­ets! The play shows on Fri­day night at 7:30PM and Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon at 1:00PM, stu­dent tick­ets are only $5.00.