Students devote a significant amount of time to planning and executing every aspect of their production. Given the campus and community response, even without pressure the group has enjoyed great success by filling Tustin Studio s 100 seats at each performance. Their most recent production, Christopher Duran's The Actor's Nightmare , enjoyed the same success. In the past, productions have featured works by fellow Bucknellians, such as Ken Urban's '96 Anecdotes About Expiration Dates . I see the production as a process that strives for artistic perfection.
Members also learn to explore the limits of their creativity.
The degree of involvement each student has in the show allows everyone to experience and discover the creative process. After brief updates at meetings, troubleshooting and brainstorming in volve all members in forming the final product. For one member of the group, the extent of her total production experience included designing the scenery for her high school play - she quickly learned that past experience and approaches were important, but ingenuity and hard work prevails. Many of the productions present different challenges, which promotes the group s versatility. A medieval play performed on Smith Quad challenged Kristy Westpfahl to develop a moving set that the group wheeled to the quad from Coleman.