by Anna McClure | Mar 14, 2015 | News Slider
For some, coming to college means leaving behind the novelties of childhood, but not for Sarah Johnson. Johnson, a freshman theater major, intends to bring Disney characters to life by hand-making costumes and photographing students in the theater department wearing them. Johnson had the idea for a similar project four years ago, but felt she did not have the resources and skills necessary to bring it to life. “When I came to Lipscomb and got into the theater department, got a little more into photography and had a nice camera, I started taking pictures and I started seeing the talent that all these different people had,” Johnson said. “Instead of using models, I thought that it would be interesting to see people, who for or a living or for a hobby want to act as characters, to take on the characters that they love.” Johnson is planning to photograph a different set of characters each semester. The theme of this set will be Disney Princesses, but future plans include Toy Story, Disney villains, Greek Mythology and horror sets. Friend and fellow first year theater student, Natalie Risk, has been assisting Johnson with the project. “This is a project that will span our entire four years of college,” Risk said. “I’m really looking forward to seeing the last set of pictures we take and comparing them to our first. Seeing the progression and the growth in every aspect of what we do will be a lot of fun to watch.” Together they have made a schedule, acquired materials and picked locations for photo shoots. With fabrics, bedspreads and clothing from Goodwill...
by Haleigh Ker | Jan 24, 2014 | News Slider
Opening night is here for Blackbird Theater’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman, with the first show Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Shamblin Theatre. The Lipscomb and Nashville community is promised a show with romance, comedy, witty women and deep, philosophical conversations about the reasons of human existence. Possibly between the characters and the devil himself, with a few pieces by composer Berlioz playing on the side. Blackbird Theater’s founders Wes Driver and Greg Greene waste no breath when picking their plays for each season by finding unique shows to “thrill” the audience to inspire and create “intellectually stimulating” conversation. To create such conversations takes months of planning and script adjustments, many staff and cast meetings and weeks of rehearsal. Cast member and junior acting major Austin Hunt says that some of the characters’ monologues are up to “three to four pages long.” Show director Beki Baker has been working hard on this show since this last summer where she and her dramaturge, junior theatre major Emily Eytchison, studied Shaw’s Man and Superman. Eytchison said that they would study the time period in which Man and Superman takes place, “find the important bits and put it together for the actors” to help further character development. “The dramaturge is going to be the one who spends all their printing quota on scholarly articles,” Eytchison added, “and that dramaturge may or may not have spent most of it all in one day.” In Baker’s Directorial Statement, she compliments Shaw’s intelligence within his work, as well as his comedic wit. Aiming to explore the purpose of humanity in this universe,...
