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Show Friday, December 02, 2016 University Journal Page 8 Second Studios trial of suspicion 1 bclousesuunews.com Accusations will fly at Second Studios production of The Crucible tonight at 10 p.m. and Dec. 3 and 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the SUU Auditorium Blackbox Theatre. The Crucible is set during the Salem Witch Trials and the ensuing paranoia regarding witchcraft and accusations about who the witches are. Alec TerBerg, a senior musical theatre major from Las Vegas and director of the production, said he chose to do this show because it is close to his heart. I really wanted to do Crucible because its the first show that kind of made me fall in love with theatre, TeiBerg said. I saw my brother do it in high school when I was about 9 years old. Arthur Miller has written this script that is timeless. Most performances of the play involve around 20 cast members, but TerBerg chose to use fewer. I'm doing this in a black box, in an even smaller white box setting, he said. I cast 12 people, and decided to double some of those people in character roles. I have nine women, and three men. Most of the show is male characters, so Ive had to make some of these women men ... Im really pleased with how its been cast. PHOTO COURTESY OF SAM DAVIS Davis takes photos on film without alteration with fabricated UFOs. Aliens and robots on film By HALEIGH CLEMENS graphic designer. Because thats what you do to make hclemenssuunews.com right? money, If you want to be an artist, you tell your parents, I want to be a graphic designer, and then they leave you alone, Davis joked. After graduating from the University of Florida, he went to work making ads for Barney & Friends. Davis said the work was boring, and after a while he was about ready to strangle the purple dinosaur. To cope with the monotony of his job, Davis fell back on photography. He built a darkroom in his home and began taking pictures of abandoned buildings at night. Davis said he likes working in film because of the notion that a camera is a magic box that he can litei ally capture light with, then use processes in a dark room to turn it into a photograph. I really lmed that physicality that the negative was close to where you were and followed you around, Davis said. I think digital is kinda cool, but it takes the photo and turns it into numbers, then puts it on a card, then you email it to someone and you make a photograph. After a while of doing photography on the side, he decided to go back to school for it, and became obsessed with the notion of objects. That was my obsession, was finding the thing that was weird, like this unexpected moment, Davis said. Drawing inspiration from his fathers background working at the Nevada test site, and the culture o'.' constant threats of bombings in Pensacola, Davis set out to make unique images in the Nevada desert. Running into the odd spaceman or meandering shark in the Nevada desert isnt unusual when viewing Sam Davis photography. Davis is intrigued by the mystique of the 50s and 60s, especially the Nevada test site and the Cold Wan Davis visited the Southern Utah Museum of Art Nov. 17 for Art Insights to talk about his career and creative process. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Florida and a Master of Fine Arts from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Having grown up in Pensacola, Florida as a military kid, Davis heard all kinds of stories growing up. If anyone knows anyone from the South, pretty much everyone is involved in this condition of sitting on the front porch, drinking and telling stories, and I think that sits really closely with my photography, Davis said. He said one of the local channels also p bad science fiction played shows. For whatever reason, my parents thought that was okay to let me watch that with as much vigor as I wanted, Davis said. Starting out as an architecture student in college, Davis said he quickly learned he didnt like that career option very much, so instead, he enrolled in a drawing class. When I was in the drawing class I kind of got sidetracked because it was full of weird people with tattoos and girls with colored hair, and I thought, This is the place to be, Davis said. He fell in love with photography and decided on an end goal of becoming a non-sto- married to his wife, so he is trying to get away from it, she said. Its this ll whole dynamic between 2 the two of us that is kind of cool. Funk said she has had to separate herself from the character in order to " play the pait. Its really interesting to be any sort of romantic character on stage because ... you just have to think not what , Sara Funk thinks of John Proctor, but what Abigail Williams does, she said. Robei t Wilson is really fun, and were really good friends, so that wasnt awkward thing to touch someone who J you dont know. Last year Funk played in Minutes: 3 A Song Cycle and The Complete Woiks of William Shakespeare:. Abridged. With this experience, she TerBerg has helped her grow as an . actor this year. I really have enjoyed the stretch that the director, Alec, has given to me, she said. His concept and the kinds of things and ideas hes trying to portray through the show are really complex. for me Its been quite a mind-stretc- h to wrap my head around his ideas and make them fit into what my body naturally does so its in accordance with what hes seeing in his brain. After a month of rehearsals, The Crucible opened on Thursday night. Admission to the SUU Auditorium Blackbox Theatre (AUD 108) is $5. Robert Wilson, a senior theatre arts major from Henderson, Nevada, plays the main character John Proctor. Its a monstrous role to tackle, Wilson said. Its exciting, but also very and its something thats iconic for the story, so Im trying to find new ways to make it fresh and make it. not new, but dilferent and my own and bring who I am as a person into who this guy is as a person. This isnt Wilsons first time acting with Second Studio; last year, he participated in the productions of Art and Autobahn. Its really nice being in those rooms because everyones so supportive, he said. Its very much a community and were a cast and were united and we just show up and have fun, even though this is a serious play Sara Funk, a sophomore theatre arts major from Cedar City, plays Abigail Williams, the character who starts the witch accusations. She and her little posse of teenage girls are pointing fingers at all the older women in town, Funk said. (My character is) the one who thinks up all the ideas and then gets all of my friends to help me. In addition to her malicious ways, Funks character tries to pursue an old flame; Proctor. Shes trying her heart out to seduce him once again, but he is willfully By BILLY CLOUSE push-and-pu- nerve-wrackin- an' UNIVERSITY JOURNAL THALHAMMER CHARLOTTE s Second Studios cast of The Crucible perform a scene in which Abigail Williams and her friends pretend to see dark powers in the court room as Judge Danforth questions them. The production is performed in the SUU Auditorium Blackbox Theatre (AUD 108). This story continues on suunews.com. 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