WSU hits the ground running with Second Stage Theatre's production of Love Me or Leave Me, the 2019 winner of the Wichita State University Playwriting Contest. The competition was founded by Dr. Bela Kiralyfalvi in 1974, when he was a professor of theatre at the university. Dr. Kiralyfalvi taught acting, playwriting, and script analysis, and developed a class on improvisation, as well. He also served as the Director of the School of Performing Arts until 2003.
Winners of the contest have their scripts workshopped and then produced by the WSU School of Performing Arts. Scripts may further be submitted to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for playwriting awards.
Love Me or Leave Me presents a marriage in trouble: a couple contemplating divorce are given different perspectives by a pair of employees from the organization “Relationships Incorporated.” A trip down Memory Lane through the couple's shared past provides new insights for each of them.
Love Me or Leave Me is by Emily Kirkman and is onstage at Welsbacher Theatre at the Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex from September 18 to 22.
And over at Mosley Street Melodrama now to September 7 is Petey's Big Adventure, by local playwright Carol Hughes. Petey's scooter has been stolen! Tag along for the ensuing adventure, as well as the post-intermission musical comedy revue, Mosely Laugh-In.
