2006 Miracle Yearbook

Independent Plays kart(Soir Cedarville University prides itself in its ability to cultivate and send out talented people in every area of vocation. The independent plays and senior theater performances that occur each year exemplify such talent. During the fall semester, we were challenged by Bang, Bang, You're Dead, the true story of a teenage delinquent that shot his parents to death before shooting classmates at school. This story brought to mind the incredible role parents play in a child's life, but more importantly, the issue of taking responsibility for our actions. We were also introduced to Scriptic, a new production by Alpha Beta Phi, the theater organization on campus. "Scriptic was a stage reading of plays written and performed by students," stated director Jim Tullett. To start off the spring semester, students performed the play Bridge of Blood. This play looked into the lives and hearts of those who served to bring the Gospel to the Auca Indians of South America and correlated with the theme of the missions conference. The spring semester also contained several senior theater productions. Aimee Auclair performed the first of these. W;t is the story of Dr. Vivian Bearing and her thoughts as she battles advanced metastatic ovarian cancer. Aimee said of the production, this play reminds us that "life is shorter than we realize; make the most of it." In April, Abbie McGaha exposed the raw truth about Picasso in her performance of Picasso's Women by Brian McAvera. In Abbie's own words, this unsettling piece "exposes the truth behind the legend of Picasso from the perspective of the eight women (mistresses and wives) in Pablo's life." Other senior performances included Jillian Anderson's For Such a Time as This, Josh Cobb and Michael Colletto's K2, Teah Thomsons and David Erlandson's The Lily of Persia, and Rebekah Nettekoven's The Bell Jar. Through the differing performances we saw a variety of talents and look forward to the futures that these performers hold in each of their fields. 9 i : Margaret Eds eatre projeci 4 Aucial >- Michael Collett° and Josh Cobb portray what it is like to survive a night on the side of a mountain at 27,000 feet while suffering from injuries, in their senior theater performance, K2. 'r Samantha Stream plays the ghost of a student Josh shot in the play Bang, Bang You're Dead. She, along with the other four students Josh shot, haunt his prison cell. A In the initial scene from Bridge of Blood, the five families gather on the eve of the great expedition to the sandbar where they hope to meet the Auca Indians. /- Star of the show, Bang, Bang You're Dead, James Tullett explains this scene: "Josh's grandpa describes to him the details of hunting a buck." In the background, Michael Anfang, the ghost of a student Josh killed, watches intently. t 162 Activities