Two members of MSU Theatre and Dance’s Faculty will be performing in this year’s Missouri Solo Play Festival. This play festival is an annual tradition of Springfield Contemporary Theatre. All four works featured in this cycle of solo plays are pieces performed by one woman. Sarah Wiggin will be performing in the one-woman show, Grounded, and Ruth Barnes will be performing a one-woman dance piece titled Here, There & Everywhere.
Grounded, written by playwright George Brant, tells the story of an ace fighter pilot whose career in the sky is ended early due to an unexpected pregnancy. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away. This production also features another MSU Theatre and Dance Faculty member. Acting professor Melanie Dryer-Lude has served as the director for this piece which is a Springfield area premiere.
Here, There & Everywhere is a collaboration created from five international dance artists working Scotland. This dance’s first performance was at Dance Base in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2013 and has subsequently been seen at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn and The Dragon’s Egg in Connecticut. The piece is choreographed by Matthew Hawkins, Steinvor Palsson, Frank McConnell, Ian Spink, Ruth Barnes, and Christine Devaney. Here, There & Everywhere is also a Springfield Area premiere.
Performance information for both shows is below
Grounded
- January 27, 7:30 PM
- January 28, 2:00 PM
Here, There & Everywhere
- January 26, 7:30 PM
- January 27, 2:00 PM
- January 28, 7:00 PM
All performances will be at Springfield Contemporary’s main stage in Downtown Springfield. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit SCT’s website here.