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Female Voices Showcase 2018
26Sep By Aumnibus StaffNo Comments
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Female Voices Showcase 2018

BY: Marcus Godbee Auburn University Montgomery’s theatre is producing a showcase called “Female Voices.” The showcase consists of scenes and monologues written female playwrights. The number of female playwrights has significantly increased in the past few decades. Theatre AUM wishes to showcase their talent. “Today, theatre companies are actively seeking new works written by women,” said Theatre Professor Val Winkelman. “It has been a great experience to research and revisit some well- known, classic favorites as well as to explore contemporary plays written by prominent female playwrights.” Some of the topics that the plays explore are puberty, romance sexuality, equality, art, ambition and prejudice. “We chose this theme last spring and the timing could not have been more perfect,...
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“Measure for Measure” Shows Theater Excellence
24Apr By Aumnibus StaffNo Comments
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“Measure for Measure” Shows Theater Excellence

Guest starring Neil David Seibel and Sarah Walker Thornton of the Actors’ Equity Association, Michael Winkelman’s production of Measure for Measure tells the story of Isabella, a chaste, young woman and devoted sister aspiring to become a nun, and Angelo, a hypocritical, unmerciful deputy of the law. We are introduced to our characters and the town of Vienna—rife with debauchery—by Duke Vincentio (David Wilson), who has decided to pose as a friar to learn what the townsfolk really think of him. In his absence, he leaves Angelo (Neil David Seibel) to enforce the law, and Angelo’s first act is to arrest Claudio (Chris Mascia) for laying with a woman before she is his wife. Claudio desperately reaches out to his sister, Isabella (Sarah Walker Thornton, to plead for his life. It is over ...
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AUM Actor Spotlight: Jonathan Meinsler
24Apr By Aumnibus StaffNo Comments
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AUM Actor Spotlight: Jonathan Meinsler

Jonathan Meinsler is finishing up his time at AUM and is no stranger to the stage or backstage at Theatre AUM. Jonathan has been a part of every single show in some way since 2015. Some people find their calling or their “thing” later in life, but for Jonathan he discovered his love for theatre when he was only a child. “I remember being five, my mom and grandparents went to see Phantom of the Opera in Atlanta, they brought back the cast album and within three days I had memorized and was singing every song full out. So, I believe it has always been my calling to act and sing.” Jonathan doesn’t enjoy to perform only for his own enjoyment or for his own escape out of the world, but he also does it for the audience’s own enjoyment and happiness. “I love to transport the audience into ...
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Backstage Spotlight: Marcus Godbee
2Apr By Aumnibus StaffNo Comments
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Backstage Spotlight: Marcus Godbee

When watching a movie or play, the focus and praises are typically directed towards the actors, but those behind the camera, curtain, lights or construction of the production are sometimes left out of the congratulatory applause. Those who aren’t center stage and lurk in the shadows of backstage are just as important to the success, and failure, of any production just as much as the spotlight stealing actor on stage. This isn’t Marcus Godbee’s first time being a part of the backstage crew at Theatre AUM. He has directed scenes for Theatre AUM’s Liberty & Justice and was the Assistant Director for Woyzeck. Marcus is currently working on the brand-new play Weightless, written by Meghan Reimers and directed by Neil David Seibel as the Stage Manager and Sound Designer; roles he has never...
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Goodwyn Gallery To Host Solo Exhibition
1Mar By Aumnibus StaffNo Comments
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Goodwyn Gallery To Host Solo Exhibition

Don’t forget to check out Annie B. Campbell’s solo exhibition “Extracted” in Goodwyn Gallery! The exhibit will be on display until March 23 and was featured at this year’s Southern Studies Conference. With a focus in ceramics, Campbell’s works range from wall mounted to installations to freestanding pieces. The pieces represent the natural environment as she addresses the effects of extraction of fossil fuels and forestry. “My work investigates environmental destruction and our relationship to its effects, both physical and psychological,” Campbell states on her gallery webpage. “My aim is to simultaneously exemplify the innate connection between humans and the earth, and lay bare that we are unwittingly conducting ourselves toward our own demise.” Campbell is an Assistant Pro...
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“Weightless” Allows Audience Members to Fly Free
16Feb By Aumnibus StaffNo Comments
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“Weightless” Allows Audience Members to Fly Free

Neil David Seibel’s production of Weightless takes the audience on a journey into a fairy tale unlike any other. The show’s opening sequence doesn’t use a single word, yet still manages to captivate its viewers with otherworldly music and lights. The elemental characters dance and float across the stage, presenting themselves as mystical beings, setting the scene of a young girl swimming and floating in water. Before long, we learn that this particular girl, Lucie, is unlike any other. She laughs when she is distraught, she falls up instead of down, and she swims all day in a magical lake created by her mother. Oddest of all, the girl has no gravity; she is personified air. Seibel uses clever tactics throughout the show to simulate the girl when she floats away by utilizing the eleme...
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Theatre AUM Now Showing “Weightless”
15Feb By Aumnibus StaffNo Comments
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Theatre AUM Now Showing “Weightless”

Auburn University Montgomery’s theater is producing a brand-new play called “Weightless.” This will be the very first time the script is being produced. It was written by Meghan Reimers. She is currently pursuing her Master of Fine Arts degree as a member of the playwright’s lab at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. “Weightless” is a fantastical and magical play that centers around a young boy named Caleb, a young woman named Lucie, Lucie’s overprotective mother, Marie, and her plotting aunt, Julie. The play exists in a world of magic. Lucie is cursed with no gravity and is bound to a lake. Caleb wanders in on the lake and that begins his love affair with Lucie. I spoke with AUM’s Director of Performance Studies, Neil David Seibel. He is also the director of the play. I asked h...
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