The Griffon News

The Western theatre season got off to a great start with the Steven Levi play, Angel on My Shoulder. On the opening date, Oct. 3, students, parents and even faculty showed their support and came out in a large number.

The play is about a woman named Donna, who is in love with a married man and father of four children. When Paul Devilin decides that he wants to leave his wife and kids to marry Donna, her conscience finally kicks in and she turns to the one thing she thinks will take her out of her misery: get­ting wasted and then killing herself. But in her drunken state of mind, instead of actually jumping to her death, she is taken back to her home by her guardian angel, Charlie Russell who turns out to be the love of her life. The cast only consisted of three characters. Freshman Ashlynd Scott played Donna, sophomore Grant Metcalf played Charlie Russell and senior Jesse Boley played Paul Devilin. Both Scott and Metcalf are theatre and video majors and Boley is majoring in music.

Seniors Candice Schrader, director, and Jennifer George, assistant director, chose to start the season with this romantic comedy. At the end of last spring one of the theatre teachers came to Schrader and George about directing the fall season’s play. George, who had already analyzed this play once before, really enjoyed it.

“I knew this play inside out. I was famil­iar with this play from my script analysis class last year,” George said.
When the teachers asked for some of the seniors to direct the first show of the season, George thought it would be a good idea to put this play on for the beginning of the season.

“Jennifer really wanted to put it on but she knew she was going to be having a baby and she did not want to commit to such a thing should something happen,” Schrader said.

“When I first read this play I wanted to direct it, but I was pregnant and I knew I would not be able to do it all on my own,” George said.
The teachers ended up approaching Schrader, asking if she would mind direct­ing the play with George.

“After reading it, I was like, ‘OK, I like it.’ I think its funny and I decided to direct it together,” Schrader said.
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With George already signing on as the assistant director, Schrader went ahead to take on the roll of being the director. The two women, whose majors are also theatre and video, found the time to come together and work on this wonderful play.