Charleston Stage Company Wins First Place in State Community Theatre Festival
November 9, 2009 (Morgantown, WV) Charleston Stage Company took the top prize in the West Virginia Community Theatre Festival held in Morgantown on Saturday, November 7. CSC’s production of UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL by Glen Berger was awarded first place in the festival that took place in the Falbo Theatre in the Creative Arts Center on the campus of West Virginia University. The community theatre festival is sponsored annually by the West Virginia Theatre Conference.
Other state theatre companies participating in the festival were the Paradox Players of Wheeling; the Historic Fayette Theatre of Fayetteville, and MT Pockets Theatre of Morgantown.
UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL is a one-man show about a Dutch librarian who attempts to track down a person who returned a book over 100 years overdue. Starring Charleston actor Joe Miller, the production was directed by Geoffrey Coward, a Charleston Stage Company Board member and CSC co-founder. The technical crew consisted of CSC Artistic Director David Wohl and Company Manager Marlette Carter. The group performed a 50 minute version of the one-act play.
The full-length version of UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL is CSC’s second
scheduled production of the 2009-10 season and will perform at the WVSU
Capitol Center Theatre Thursday-Saturday, December 10-12 at 7:30 PM.
On-line tickets are available now here.
Regular tickets are $15; student/senior tickets are $10.
Charleston Stage Company will represent West Virginia at the
Southeastern Theatre Conference’s regional community theatre festival
scheduled in March in Lexington, Kentucky. Theatres from ten
states in the Southeastern region of the United States will also
participate in the SETC festival.
This is the seventh time that CSC has won the state community theatre
festival, more than any other theatre company in the state.
Previous first-place finishes were in 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, and
2007. In 2008, the company’s production of THE EXONERATED won the
Southeastern regional festival held that year in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In 1998, CSC’s production of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,
ABRIDGED also took first place in the 1999 SETC festival (held in
Greensboro, NC) and was runner-up in the national community theatre
festival (held in Memphis, TN). That production was chosen to
represent the United States at international festivals in Ireland,
Aruba, Mexico and Ukraine.