Duchamp Must Die
October 20th and 21st, 2022
In the skit College Jousting, actors perform a competition in which they run at each other with sword-like weapons made out of plastic cups. They wore crowns and armor made out of cardboard (and charged at each other as if they were fighting over a grade in Rate My Professor)!
Some of the background art created by Set Designer Sam Devlin for the show.
A pirate tells the story of how he attempted to get a job in Shit Story with Bad Pirate Accent. The skit uses two people: one, who is narrating the story and doing the voice acting (Zachary Papatheodorou) and the other, who is acting as the character and making the body motions (Max Tucker).
The Washington College Department of Theatre and Dance kicked off its fall season by challenging its students to perform thirty plays in under an hour! On October 20th and 21st, students, friends, family, and Chestertown residents, gathered together to watch the spectacle. The audience even got to participate by calling out skit numbers that would be chosen by the emcee for the event Cyn Covington. The cast was made up of 13 students, Jai Basu, Zoe Brookbank, Vincent Caroll, Niko Chen, Jenna Harper, Skye Hass, Stevie Lyles, Karlis Povisilis, Zachary Papatheodorou, Ryan Spartin, Sam Steptoe, Leah Thivierge, and Max Tucker. The actors participated in a variety of skits, a few fan-favorite skits included Man vs. Machine, Action Flick, and The Brief History of Washington College, featuring Washington College’s very own Gus the Goose. Some skits were shorter than others, one featured an orange rolling onto the stage that forgot its cue line with another showing cast members moving furniture as part of a set change for the next scene which was too long and gets canceled by the emcee. Directed by Professor Dale Daigle and senior Sophia Rooks, and performed by a slew of Washington College students, this play is impressive, and the fact that performers were able to memorize all of these different skits out of order shows talent.
Gus the Goose gives a lecture through honking in A Brief History of Washington College in which the bird waddles around before mentioning student loans and running off the stage. (Thanks for the reminder, Gus!)
With a really long title, Having Missed Its Cue, the Orange Entered Hurriedly. But Once on Stage, It Found That It Had Forgotten Its Lines Entirely and Remained Paralyzed Before the Audience for What Seemed Like an Eternity, represents the long silence this orange brought after it forgot its line. The actors rolled it on stage and whispered words of encouragement. Unfortunately, the orange did not remember its line. Hopefully it’s doing okay after that hard performance.
Coverage by Iris Scherr ‘25
Photos Courtesy of the Department of Theatre and Dance