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LAKE SUPERIOR
STATE UNIVERSITY

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Senior communication major brings her play to the LSSU stage

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. - A Lake Superior State University student who has acted in many plays on campus will now bring her own creation to the stage.

Heather Mydosh, an honors student from Munith majoring in English language and literature, has written her own play, cast it, and is directing it when it plays on campus this week.

The public is welcome to see her finished product at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 9-10, in the LSSU Arts Center's Black Box Theatre.

Admission is free.

"I wrote it as part of my honors thesis, working in cooperation with Professors Jason Swedene and Gary Balfantz," Mydosh said.

"It's a one-act play for three women, a mother, a daughter and a narrator. I've been working on the script since last summer, but have been rehearsing it since early December."

Entitled Modern Martyr, the play features senior Katey Price, a communication major from Wyoming, Mich., as the daughter, and Amanda Burmeister, a senior political science major from Holland, Mich., as the narrator.

Since one actress was forced to drop out of the play recently, Mydosh will play the role of mother.

In writing the play, Mydosh said she was inspired by the philosophical works of the Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936).

The play starts with the mother and daughter around the deathbed of their mother and grandmother as she loses consciousness and it ends with her death.

"It's not a particularly happy play, but sometimes the point of theater is just to make you think," Mydosh said.

Mydosh said she received a grant from the Alpha Chi National College Honors Scholarship Society for the play and has additional support from the LSSU School of Nursing and the LSSU Honors Program.

Seating is general admission and is limited to approximately 60 persons each night.

Tickets are first-come, first-served.

The Arts Center box office will open one hour before the production each night.

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