Spotlight: Forbidden SOT
By Cassie Keet: Features Editor: April 2008
The end of the semester is looming in the near distance. The final School of Theatre shows are coming to a close. You know what this means: Forbidden School of Theatre has returned, and this time… no one is safe. Forbidden School of Theatre wasn’t begun like your typical student theatre season project. While other shows such as Smaller and Fiercer and Sonnets and Chocolates were created for specific reasons, FSOT can be better described as a happy accident. It all began in the Spring of 2006. “It was originally called Buttercup because I had another play called that that I had written and I was going to stage for La Cosa |
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Nostra’s Smaller but Fiercer. However, Sergio Soltero found that Buttercup was lacking. “Instead, I staged some other things I had written and decided to tag onto the end of the piece a 5 minute spoof of the entire SOT. Well by the time I was done the whole play was about twenty-five minutes long when I had originally told BJ it would have been nine-and-a-half minutes.” 
The Infamous Fobidden S.O.T poster featuring Sergio Soltero's very own face and goatee
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While normally this would have been considered a disaster, luck was with Soltero. “BJ found this out during tech week and he was annoyed with my subterfuge, but he liked the show we had written so much he green-lighted it anyways.” It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, considering “La Cosa Nostra has co-produced FSOT ever since.”
Despite its blessed union with La Cosa Nostra and its luck-of-the-draw beginnings, FSOT has had to overcome obstacles, including the School of Theatre itself. Because it spoofs the material that the SOT has produced throughout the year, many people are wary.
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How To: Survive a Summer away from the SOT
By Cassie Keet, Features Editor: April 2008
The weather is changing. The air is warmer. It only rains every other Tuesday and Thursday. You find yourself restless. Twitching sets in. This can mean only one thing: summer is just around the corner. For many of us that means packing up and leaving, parting ways with friends, and saying goodbye to the School of Theatre for a full three months. However, all hope is not lost. Follow a few simple summer rules, and you’ll live. |
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Step One: Watch movies. This is one
of the easiest things you can do to take your mind off of the void in your life. Step one: insert DVD. Step two: sit and watch. You can always SOT-ify the movie by assigning the movie roles to your friends. A movie can become twice as enjoyable if you say, “Ah, yes. That’s Brockett,” or “Stephanie Mellini is this character.” Suddenly, you won’t feel half as lonesome for the friends you left behind. Word of caution: don’t try this for a horror movie, unless you cast people you don’t like. Step Two: Sleep. This is the easiest thing you can do to pass the time. Lie |
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down in your bed, in your friend’s bed, on your couch, on the floor, in a hammock, on the ground, in the grass, or in a lawn chair, and shut down. Once into the second, third, and fourth stages of sleep, including REM, you can have pleasant dreams of Student Theatre and the SOT. But try not to think about general auditions before you snooze, otherwise you may wind up having a nightmare. Click here to view full article |
The Gift of A Gift of Peace
By Cassie Keet: Features Editor: April 2008 In mid-March, I walked into the Lab Theatre to watch a show I had heard absolutely nothing about. It was entitled A Gift of Peace. I guessed it had something to do with ultra-liberals bashing the Iraqi war, but I figured I had nothing better to do on a Saturday night. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but it was quickly made apparent that this was no ordinary night of theatre. |
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Directed by Deborah Hale, A Gift of Peace is a collection of twenty monologues, as well as multiple songs ranging from The Beatles’ “Give Peace a Chance” to gospel hymns such as “This Little Light of Mine.” All of the monologues and musical numbers are geared toward shedding light on the U.S. Department of Peace, a department that will either be voted into existence or left to die in the U.S. House of Representatives. The play was originally produced in Los Angeles, but since its first nation-wide tour, it has been adapted and performed |
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in over thirty-five cities.
The show easily transitions between monologues and songs, all of which were performed by not only FSU students, but by staff and thespians involved with TCC and with Tallahassee Little Theatre. The pieces range from comedic to inspiring to emotionally jarring, but each and every one centers around the Department of Peace. Click here to view full article |
