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Frost festival honors student playwrights

By Carolyn Collins | May 27, 1997

The Frost play festival showcased the works of Dartmouth undergraduate playwrigts. The series of plays, performed by randomly assigned actors and actresses, were well received by the enthusiastic audience who gathered to see the plays last week. "One Hundred Days," written by Kyle Ancowitz '98 and directed by Jo Weingarten '98, draws upon an ancient Chinese riddle to explore modern versions of love and devotion. "The Perfect Woman," directed by Ancowitz, is the portrayal of the final months in the life of an anorexic girl and how her friends deal with her life and death.

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Frost Festival honors student plays

By Carolyn Collins | May 22, 1997

The 70th Annual Frost Play Festival returns to the stage tonight. The festival consists of a series of plays created entirely by Dartmouth students responsible for the writing, direction and performance of the works. "One Hundred Days" by Kyle Ancowitz '98, "The Perfect Woman" by Jo Weingarten '98 and "You Are Here" by Stefan Lanfer '97 are this year's winners of the Frost Play-writing Competition, which accepts one-act play submissions each winter term. The submitted scripts are further transformed by the interpretations of student directors and the personality and vitality which the student actors bring to the characters. Audiences usually enjoy the Frost productions not only for their consistently high quality, but for the experimental vigor not found in familiar dramas. This year, there are several factors to make the productions unique, other than the material itself.

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