By Alex Powers, News Assistant

“Birth was the Death of Them,” the Southwestern Oregon Community College theater department’s final student showcase, will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Hales Center for the Performing Arts. The free show will feature seven student-directed, one-act plays.

Included in the showcase is “A Whole House Full of Babies,” directed by Brett Granstrom, about a woman (Chelsee Carter) who laments to a friend (Peter Wilson) about her struggle to reclaim a child she gave up for adoption. “Flop Cop,” directed by Aaren Tucker, is about a playwright (Melinda Roberts) who is arrested in an attempt to keep her from writing bad plays.

In “Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall be Unhappy,” a war protest by Tony Kushner, directed by Amy Katrina, Laura Bush (Aaren Tucker) has a crisis while reading to Iraqi children. A man (Lionel McMann) is confronted in his kitchen by a knife-wielding fugitive (Brett Granstrom) in “Blood Reversal,” directed by Tim Vila.

Other plays include “Poof,” directed by Chelsee Carter; “Men’s Intuition,” directed by Justin McCarley; and “The Jewish Wife” and “The Informant” by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Peter Wilson.

SOCC's end-of-term productions involve students from acting, directing and tech classes, making department closure "more poignant," said producer Rob Clingan. "These students are fantastic," he said. "I really couldn't ask for more."

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