‘Somewhere in Between’ Opens at the Hett Center on Feb. 28
McKendree Theater Department Play Features Many Local Students
Lebanon, Ill. — Meet Jasper. He’s 29, single, stuck in a dead-end job and desperately
searching for something to make his life worthwhile. “Somewhere in Between” is his
story, told in ten scenes that unfold against the backdrop of the incessant motion
of New York City.
The McKendree University Theater Department production of the play by Craig Pospisil
opens on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m., and continues on March 1 and 2 at 7:30, with
a 2:30 p.m. matinee on Sunday, March 3. The show will be performed at the Hettenhausen
Center for the Arts at 400 N. Alton Street in Lebanon, Ill. General admission seating
is free.
Tyler Campbell, a senior from Trenton, Ill., plays the role of Jasper. As he moves
through his life, Jasper encounters a wide variety of people—some of whom may be able
to help move him out of his “in-between” state and into the rest of his life. There
are those at his job, where he takes complaint calls for a television network: a woman
he meets in an elevator (senior Kali Sabo from Hoyleton, Ill.); Chris, the self-appointed
expert on women (first-year student Tyler Jewell from Granite City, Ill.); his boss,
Geraldine Sanders (senior Allie Stevens from Carterville, Ill.); and Mary, a woman
who might be interested in him (senior Shayna Dixon from Alton, Ill.).
As Jasper tries to figure out his life, he meets various people on the streets, shops,
homes and restaurants of New York. They include Holly, a bookstore clerk (sophomore
Rebecca Blake from Branson, Mo.), bookstore customers Valerie (first-year student
Madi Scace from Columbia, Ill.) and Robert (senior Darren Meeker from Newton, Ill.),
a lost tourist (sophomore Dawn Schmid from Columbia, Ill.), a homeless man panhandling
on the subway (junior Nathaniel Luckett from Freeburg, Ill.), a construction worker
(first-year student Aaron Vidad from South Elgin, Ill.), an aspiring actress (first-year
student Sharon Herath from Mossville, Ill.), a lawyer (sophomore Natalie Van Booven
from Maryland Heights, Mo.), and some very interesting folks at a restaurant (junior
Rachael Valbert from Granite City, Ill.; senior Tim Barker from O’Fallon, Ill.; and
first-year student Felicia Mathis from Mount Carmel, Ill.)
Working behind the scenes to make sure the show runs smoothly are first-year students
Julia Surdyke (Festus, Mo.), stage manager; Dakota Reed (West Frankfort, Ill.), light
board operator; and Evan Bosaw (Troy, Ill.), sound design; sophomore Nate Hunt (Harrisburg,
Ill.), deck manager; and senior Lisa Zeller (Schaumburg, Ill.), backstage crew.
-McK-
(Note: Dress rehearsal photos will be available by request.)
