World Premiere Festival features student’s full-length play
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Northwestern theatre’s annual World Premiere Festival featured a full-length play written by junior Megan Hodgin, St. Joseph, Mo., for a playwriting class during fall semester. Master’s Degree was performed April 1 and 2 in the Allen Theatre.
Eight students took Playwriting II with theatre professor Jeff Barker last fall. At semester’s end, their plays were sent to Kenneth Robbins, director of the School of the Performing Arts at Louisiana Tech University and former playwriting chair for the national Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Robbins critiqued all the plays and recommended Hodgin’s for production.
Master’s Degree is based on Hodgin’s own life. The play chronicles her family’s experience with her mother’s breast cancer. The character Melissa, like Megan, thrives at college and develops independence even as she feels guilty being away from her family during the crisis. “Megan’s play gives new meaning to the word ‘catharsis,’” says Barker.
Eight students took Playwriting II with theatre professor Jeff Barker last fall. At semester’s end, their plays were sent to Kenneth Robbins, director of the School of the Performing Arts at Louisiana Tech University and former playwriting chair for the national Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Robbins critiqued all the plays and recommended Hodgin’s for production.
Master’s Degree is based on Hodgin’s own life. The play chronicles her family’s experience with her mother’s breast cancer. The character Melissa, like Megan, thrives at college and develops independence even as she feels guilty being away from her family during the crisis. “Megan’s play gives new meaning to the word ‘catharsis,’” says Barker.
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