Bethel Uni­ver­sity Plays Hap­pen­ing Soon

Note: This ar­ti­cle orig­i­nally ap­peared in the March 24 print edi­tion of the Bethel Bea­con.

MISHAWAKA—“Flux” and “The Obelisk” are two one-act plays writ­ten by a stu­dent play­wright named Au­tumn Owens. While plays writ­ten by stu­dents have been per­formed in events like 24-Hour The­atre, the de­part­ment has not pro­duced a stu­dent-writ­ten play for two years.  

Fur­ther­more, one of the plays has a stu­dent di­rec­tor, an­other event that has­n’t hap­pened in a while for the the­atre de­part­ment. This stu­dent di­rec­tor is Adam Fos­ter, and he will be specif­i­cally the di­rec­tor of “The Obelisk” and as­sis­tant di­rec­tor of “Flux.” He finds the com­mu­nity of be­ing with the ac­tors is some­thing he en­joys. His fa­vorite thing about be­ing di­rec­tor is that it is a col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­fort be­tween him and the ac­tors. Fos­ter looks for­ward to di­rect­ing more in the fu­ture.   

Owens wrote these two shows sep­a­rately. “Flux” was orig­i­nally writ­ten for a 24-Hour The­atre per­for­mance, and then Owens re­vised it to turn in for play sub­mis­sions. “The Obelisk” was writ­ten over the sum­mer as a sep­a­rate but com­ple­men­tary story. Though the to­tal show is com­prised of two one-acts that don’t have an over­ar­ch­ing story, Owens finds some­thing both plays have in com­mon. 

“Both plays…deal with per­son­al­ity and how peo­ple do things they would­n’t ex­pect them­selves to do,” Owens said.  

“Flux” and “The Obelisk” will be show­ing in the Ever­est-Rohr on March 25, 26, 27 at 7:30 p.m. and March 27 at 1 p.m.