Auditions to be held for spring plays

Auditions for the plays “The Glass Menagerie” and “The Underpants” will be held in the Studio Theater on Tuesday from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
Anyone is welcome to audition.

The plays will be “directed by students who have taken the directing class,” said Valory Lawrence, part-time theater instructor.

“The Glass Menagerie” is a play by Tennessee Williams.

MHCC student Terrence Brasch is the assistant director for “The Underpants.” Brasch said he recently became interested in theater because he wants to get into comedy and wanted to work on his stage presence.
“I really wanted to do ‘The Underpants’ because it really fits my style,” Brasch said.

“(As a director) we get an idea of how we want to envision the play and your job as a director is to help the viewers envision the play,” he said.

MHCC second-year student Zhanell Magee is the set designer for the play “The Underpants” and “The Glass Menagerie.” Magee has been doing theater since she was in eighth grade and said, “My cousin was going to David Douglas and she needed my help and I fell in love with it (theater).”

This spring will be Magee’s first time designing a set for a student-directed play at MHCC. The set design for “The Glass Menagerie” is in progress.

“Right now we are running out my ideas. Once we get onto the next term we will start designing,” said Magee.

Magee said she is enjoying the process of creating set design ideas for “The Glass Menagerie.” “It’s a creative ability to do whatever you want on the set.”

Lawrence said last year’s student-directed plays were “very successful and were close to selling out. It’s unique to Mt. Hood and it’s an amazing program.”

At the auditions, there will be scripts given for people to read. However, students who are cast have to take a corresponding theater class.

Callbacks for the auditions will be Thursday. Rehearsals for the plays will be Sunday through Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m.

For more information, contact Lawrence at [email protected].