Theater program presents ‘The Monodrama Project’

The UNLV senior adult theater program will present “The Monodrama Project,” consisting of 10-minute, original, one-person shows, at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. May 27 in the Paul Harris Theatre in the Alta Ham Fine Arts Building at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway.

Tickets are $5 and are available at the UNLV Performing Arts Center box office or by calling 895-2787.

Set design and technical direction for all shows is by Bart Mueller.

“The Monodrama Project” started in the fall semester of 2006.

Students studied the work of Hal Holbrook, Julie Harris, James Whitmore and Whoopi Goldberg, and read scripts by Spaulding Gray, David Cale and Glen Berger, among others.

In addition, the students studied the craft and form of storytelling before creating their own 10-minute monodrama.

These scripts — some of which are fictional, some of which are autobiographical — were presented in workshops and developed, and then rehearsed as part of a class in the senior adult theater program.

Douglas Hill, associate director of the senior adult theater program, said, “These 10-minute plays are a view into modern older adulthood — a chance to see stories about issues and ideas that matter to a wide variety of mature artists.”