Campus Players, a theatre organization, will hold a showcase titled \u201cLet\u2019s Be Honest\u201d tomight to provide the opportunity for students to be honest about talents, disorders and fears in a public form. The showcase will serve as a fundraiser to provide royalties for the production Campus Players will hold in the fall semester.<\/p>\n
Campus Players\u2019 vice president sophomore Sydney Sanford encourages students to learn more about Campus Players by attending \u201cLet\u2019s Be Honest.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love to get to know people, and I\u2019d say this showcase also is a good way to come see everybody, because it\u2019s about half the club,\u201d Sanford said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s Be Honest\u201d is a theme created by Campus Players president and senior Kara Treadwell. Treadwell said honesty has always been something she has taken incredibly seriously. She said she never wants to be viewed as dishonest, and has always felt comfortable being open with people. Treadwell said when she came to Harding, she found the Christian university environment a difficult place to be honest. She wanted to create a way for students to feel comfortable being entirely honest with their audience without feeling alone or judged.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just thought we needed a place where no one had to put on a mask,\u201d Treadwell said.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s something freeing about knowing you\u2019re not the only one.\u201d<\/p>\n
During auditions for \u201cLet\u2019s Be Honest,\u201d the group was surprised by the turnout and the talent. Campus Players sponsor and assistant technical director Seth Fish said the students have taken the theme of the showcase seriously in a way that he had never expected.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a lot of students with talent that we didn\u2019t know and they\u2019re showing a side of themselves that we weren\u2019t aware of,\u201d Fish said.<\/p>\n
Treadwell said this production will be unlike others in that it will showcase students and friends who have never performed on the Benson or Ulrey stages. The group performing is unique, and each person has a true reason for doing what they will be doing. Treadwell said \u201cLet\u2019s Be Honest\u201d will be both comedic and touching.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are really going to be blown away,\u201d Treadwell said.<\/p>\n
Through Campus Players, a self-funded organization, students come together to be themselves, or confidently be someone else. The group performs two shows each year, from improv to movie critiques. The organization uses money raised from the spring production to pay for the fall production, whose proceeds then go to the charity the organization has chosen to work with that specific year.<\/p>\n
The organization set a goal of $500 for the upcoming showcase. Cost is $5 at the door. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show will begin at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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