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Directed by Drew senior Emily Weitzel, “The Actor’s Nightmare” portrays the experience of an accountant, George Spelvin, who unwittingly stars in several famous performance pieces after wandering onto an empty stage. Noel Coward’s “Private Lives,” Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” and Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” and “Endgame” are among the plays referenced in “The Actor’s Nightmare.”
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In the closing sections, George finds himself thrust into a Samuel Beckett play (a combination of Waiting for Godot and Endgame), which he has very little knowledge of. And then suddenly he’s Sir Thomas More in the historical drama A Man for All Seasons, facing a beheading for opposing Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne Boylen – and alarmingly the executioner seems more real than he should.
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The play stars Andrew Baxter, a sophomore from Kingsport, Tenn., as George Spelvin. Also featured are: Magnolia Boddy, a freshman from Elizabethton, Tenn.; Hannah Carson, a senior from Raleigh, N.C.; Warren McCrickard, a sophomore from Richmond, Va.; Adam Meyers, a senior from Lawrence, Ind.,; Michelle Moore, a sophomore from Meridian, Iowa; Matthew Mueller, a freshmen from Lancaster, Pa.; and Annie Tipton, a sophomore from Shreve, Ohio.
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