Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center (KVPAC) Encore Players, Katy’s award winning community theatre, is heading to the Texas state competition of the American Association of Community Theatre. KVPAC will be competing with the one act play, Answers, by Tom Topor. KVPAC needs your support through a charitable donation!
In 2015, KVPAC Encore Players won first place at the Texas state competition and represented Texas in the Regional competition (Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico and Louisiana) winning the first place alternate position for USA competition.
Answers, a successful Off-Off-Broadway production, selected for inclusion in “Best Short Plays is a, “gripping and powerful play that probes into the helpless terror experienced by a suspect undergoing a relentless police interrogation. “…a compelling, contemporary comment on society.” —Show Business.” Mr. Topor as a dramatist writes cleanly, with flair for sharp dialogue.” —NY Post.
Gregory J. Magyar, KVPAC’s Executive Artistic Director who was in the show that won in 2015 and received an ‘All Star Cast’ award is returning this year with Trenton Stephenson and James Duncan under the direction of Joshua Schorejs, a director and teacher at KVPAC, who won the Excellence in Directing Award in 2015.
Answers is a short play about a man (James Duncan) having been detained for questioning, in a crime about which he claims to know nothing, is grilled by two persistent police officers (Gregory Magyar and Trenton Stephenson). They call him “Byron” (although he insists this is not his name) and their initially bantering attitude turns steadily more ominous as they attempt to force a confession. Ultimately, in a scene of shattering intensity, they succeed—but disturbing questions linger. Have justice and truth indeed been served? Or has another hapless victim been sacrificed to society’s inexorable need for retribution at any cost?
Community theatre is just one component of KVPAC, Magyar explained. “We are an arts-rich community delivering visual and performing arts for all ages featuring quality programming for everyone in Katy and the surrounding areas.”
KVPAC is asking readers to consider making a tax-deductible contribution to support the Encore Players and make it possible for them to continue to represent Katy, TX at competitions. For your convenience, online payments can be made by visiting our website at: https://www.gofundme.com/kvpac-encore-players-competition or mail your contribution to KVPAC, 2501 South Mason Road #290, Katy, Texas 77450.