Ireland Wolfe (left) and Emory Heckman (right) act out their characters, June and Roy, during a scene where they sit in the kitchen of an apartment talking about how the food they ate went bad in Gordon Wilson Hall on Saturday, Feb. 7. The scene was a part of their play in “Plays in a Day” performed on Sunday, Feb. 8.
Alpha Psi Omega rehearsed for “Plays in a Day” on Saturday, Feb. 7. The performance featured two plays, “Whisk,” and “I Ordered a Sausage and All I Got Were Two People Beating the Shit Out of Each Other.”
“Plays in a Day” is a 24-hour theater festival hosted by Alpha Psi Omega, according to the WKU events calendar. Students have 24-hours to write, direct and perform original plays. The event has occurred since the spring semester in 2017, according to the WKU Theatre and Dance Instagram.
“Plays in a Day” was produced by Haley Hart, a senior psychology and acting major, on Sunday, Feb. 8. Hart helped find props during the rehearsals, and other students helped direct the actors as they acted out the scenes for rehearsal.
Talisman magazine photo editor, Lindsey McIntosh, ventured to the rehearsals to capture what goes into preparing for WKU Student Chapter of Alpha Psi Omega’s “Plays in a Day.”
Haley Hart goes through the shelves of prop inventory for the theater program in Gordon Wilson Hall on Saturday, Feb. 7. Hart grabbed a chest to be used as a set piece for the play set in an apartment. Hart produced the “Plays in a Day” event that was performed on Sunday, Feb. 8.Chase Beal is handed the manuscript for the play “Whisk” before he rehearses in Gordon Wilson Hall on Saturday, Feb. 7. “Whisk” was a play that was a part of the “Plays in a Day” event performed on Sunday, Feb. 8.Lib Boyd mentors during the rehearsal for the play, “I Ordered a Sausage and All I got were Two People Beating the Shit out of Each Other” in Gordon Wilson Hall on Saturday, Feb. 7. Boyd drew the set design for the play.Chase Beal (left) and Ashton Evans (right) act out a scene where Evans’ character has an emotional breakdown and confesses their feelings to Beal’s character during a rehearsal in Gordon Wilson Hall on Saturday, Feb. 7. Beal and Evans performed for the play “Whisk,” which featured in the “Plays in a Day” event on Sunday, Feb. 8.Emory Heckman (left) plays the character Roy during a scene with Ireland Wolfe (right) playing the character June. In the scene, their characters argue about a statue in Gordon Wilson Hall on Saturday, Feb. 7.Lib Boyd sets aside a statue being used as a prop that actors, Emory Heckman and Ireland Wolfe, broke during the rehearsal for their play in “Plays in a Day” in Gordon Wilson Hall on Saturday, Feb. 7. Heckman and Wolfe used a water bottle instead.Emory Heckman (left) and Ireland Wolfe (middle) act out a scene of tug of war for a play featured in “Plays in a Day” as Lib Boyd (right) watches and mentors them in Gordon Wilson Hall on Saturday, Feb. 7. Boyd encouraged Heckman and Wolfe to think of different ways to act out the scene. “There are no wrong answers,” Boyd said.Ireland Wolfe, Emory Heckman and Lib Boyd put out props for set design with the table being used as a kitchen table in an apartment for a rehearsal of their play, “I Ordered a Sausage and All I got were Two People Beating the Shit out of Each Other” on Saturday, Feb. 7. The scene on the script is of a tug-of-war with a statue while the characters argue in their apartment.Lib Boyd (middle) laughs after Ireland Wolfe (left) and Emory Heckman (right) play tug-of-war with a prop during the rehearsal for the “Plays in a Day” event in Gordon Wilson Hall on Saturday, Feb. 7.Haley Hart (left) tried putting her hand in a musty glove while Eli Simpson (right) found props on a shelf in the theater program’s prop inventory in Gordon Wilson Hall on Saturday, Feb. 7. Hart and Simpson were searching for props during the rehearsal for the “Plays in a Day” event. Hart is the producer of “Plays in a Day.”
