{"id":28140,"date":"2018-12-19T20:52:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T01:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2018\/12\/20\/necc-play-headed-to-kennedy-center-regional-festival\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:27:57","slug":"necc-play-headed-to-kennedy-center-regional-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/12\/19\/necc-play-headed-to-kennedy-center-regional-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Headed to Kennedy Center Regional Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18995\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2018\/10\/stupid-f-cking-bird-press.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18995\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18995\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2018\/10\/stupid-f-cking-bird-press-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Essex Community College students Armando Belliard Harmon of Haverhill portrays Tragorean and Gwynnethe Glickman of Newbury portrays Mash in NECC\u2019s adaptation of Aaron Posner\u2019s play \u201cStupid F*cking Bird\u201d which\u00a0 has been selected to be performed during the American College Theater Festival Region 1 in January 2019.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the first time in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\">Northern Essex Community College<\/a>\u2019s history, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcactf.org\/home\/index.html\">American College Theater Festival<\/a> Region I has selected its production of \u201cStupid F*cking Bird\u201d to be remounted and reprised at this year\u2019s Kennedy Center American College Theater Region 1 Festival on Wednesday,\u00a0 January 30 in Hyannis.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Essex adaptation of the Aaron Posner play, which explores love, art, and revolution, will be performed at 1 and 5 p.m. It is co-directed by Brianne Beatrice, Northern Essex theater professor and advisor to the NECC Topnotch Players, the college\u2019s student theater group, and NECC student Sarah Durning of North Andover. The play is an irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov\u2019s \u201cThe Seagull.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHighly competitive, being invited to Festival is an outrageous step for Northern Essex Community College and our Theater Program,\u201d said Beatrice.<\/p>\n<p>Each year between 30 and 40 schools submit a production and two or three are invited to perform, said Beatrice. Months ago, NECC submitted the \u201cStupid F*cking Bird\u201d to be viewed. The final decision was made in early December to invite the NECC production to Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn January, at festival, our production will perform for all university theater programs in Region I and there will be a response by a representative from the Kennedy Center,\u201d said Beatrice.<\/p>\n<p>If the production excels in the Region I Festival, it is hoped the show will go to Washington, DC, in May, Beatrice said.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, contact Beatrice at <a href=\"mailto:bribeats@gmail.com\">bribeats@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in Northern Essex Community College\u2019s history, the American College Theater Festival Region I has selected its production of \u201cStupid F*cking Bird\u201d to be remounted and reprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":28026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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