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Professor Felten
KCACTF Showcase
KCACTF Showcase
When I went to the Thursday showing of the KCACTF Showcase, I thought I would be
sitting on one acts, long scenes, and heavy content. I was still excited to watch as I miss doing
these sort of showcases. I was surprised that the performances in total only lasted a little over an
hour. The pacing as a whole was meticulous and there was not really a drop in energy level
throughout the entire thing. In all honesty, it made me want to watch more, or that there was
more performances because of how impressive the pacing and quality in acting from every group
In particular, I really enjoyed the contents of the Zane Boyer with Nick Micheels and
Melissa Brausch with Joshua Johnson groups. Both groups seemed to have great chemistry with
each other in both the physical and emotional sense of their scenes. They did not have any sort of
awkward pauses or miscommunications on stage, and the subtle nuances that they had in their
interactions made the scene more relatable and entertaining to watch. For the first group, I liked
how their song, “What the Fuck Was That?” really had me laughing because of their flow and
transitions between speaking and singing. I thought that the only problem that really got me was
that when they had overlapping lyrics, I could not really understand what they were saying and
would then start to feel like it was close to being a shouting match. I really enjoyed their
dynamics and blocking that made it seemed like they were hiding. As for the second group, I felt
that their interactions with each other really brought me in the scene. It was like their mood in
their scenes really tied the scenes without having to do a lot of prop setting or even movement.
With this group, it seemed like every action and direction had a purpose and this kept my focus
on them instead of trying to figure out what they were doing. I think the only thing was that
when Melissa was waving the cigarette around, I thought if might have been really wild
compared to the other movements that they did within their blocking. If it was a real cigarette, I
would have thought she’d burn herself with the flying ash. I also liked their second scene in that
Joshua, while not having a lot of lines compared to Melissa, made the audience know how
important his character was through actions and his expressions. Their reactions toward each
other was also really relatable to where I would laugh at their banters. I also felt like they used
their silences or pauses really effectively because it paced the scene nicely. Otherwise, the scene
would have been easily frantic with the fast chattering lines of the female role.
I felt that all the actors did a really impressive job for the timed circumstances that they
had. Their transitions from scene to scene and to monologues had no lag and whenever an actor
was not in the other’s monologues, it was if they disappeared despite still being on stage. I felt
that doing that would actually be hard, especially if there was a longer monologue that they
would have to stay motionless for. I really thought that for the most part, the groups stayed open
to the audience through their scenes, with the exception of moving from point to point. I would
imagine having to stuff all the lines and nuances within the scenes within that 5-6 minute time
would need a lot of practice between the actors in order to interact realistically with a pace they
Overall, I would definitely recommend this showcase to anyone I meet because of how
concise and packed the performances were. It will make the time watching fly by instead of