Spring 2012 • - College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Indiana ...

If you are a student at in the IUP
theater department, you do more than
just go to class, you preform. Audiences
are entertained all year long by the department’s
student organized production,
Theater-by-the-grove. With over
150 performances performed by the
students themselves, Theater-by-0the-
Grove is a popular event to go to on
campus. Ranging from full productions
to ten
minute acts, Theater-by-the-Grove allows
students to direct and act in their
own work. The program is funded by
the IUP Student Cooperative Association.
This semester, Theater by the Grove
performed “Chess” from February 23-26
and February 29-March 3 and will be
preforming “The Gentleman Dancing
Master” from April 19-22 and 25-28.
Theater on campus doesn’t stop
when students leave for summer break.
The theater continues, just on a smaller
level. The Footlight Players provide
children and young adults a way to
IUP Theater students performing
in “Chess”
Students preforming in the
production of “Chess”
release their creativity while gaining
interest in the
preforming arts. In the summer, the
Footlight Players, a theater program
the Department of
Theater offers for children and young
adults will run from June 11 to July
9, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The
Footlight
Players teach daily workshops and
allows the
students to release their
creativity while gaining interest in
the performing arts. Students will
audition throughout the month,
practice, and perform at the end of
the summer.
The program doesn’t just focus on
acting, the students can participate
in backstage
production, writing, costume design,
and any other part of the theater production
process. The program tuition
cost is $450 before April 1st and $500
after. The form can be found on the
IUP theater department website.
Theater isn’t just for
entertainment anymore; it can actually
be used for a local
charity. TOST and Turned, a
student organization, host
several nights of theater for a one
special charity. Founded in 2002, student
organization TOST and Turned
also hosts several nights of theater.
Chelsea Forbes, TOST President,
explained the events that TOST preforms.
“We are a student run organization
at IUP. We hold a main stage
production in the fall, which is an
already produced show that we buy
the rights and costumes and such for
and then we do student-written one
acts in the spring,” said Forbes.
TOST or ”temperantia operis scholae
theatrique”, Latin for the perfect
mix of work, school, and theater is
very generous with to its audience
members and Indiana.
“There is no admission price for
these shows, only a
suggested donation and we raise
money for local charities,” Forbes
said, “We vote on the
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