Newsletter                               April, 2008

UpStage DownStage

Professor Chosen to be Guest Designer

by Chaka Cumberbatch, courtesy of The Echo

Shauna Meador, resident costume designer at UCA Theatre was recently selected to design costumes for Noodle Doodle Box, part of TheatreSquared's 2007-2008 season in Fayetteville. TheatreSquared is one of three equity theatre companies in Arkansas and is associated with the Actor's Equity Association, which strives to present the highest quality of theatrical productions.

Noodle Doodle Box, which was adapted from the German-language version, is geared toward a younger audience and the set was inspired by a painting by Belgian painter Rene Magritte.

"The two main characters, [brother and sister] Zacharias and Pepper, squabble over sharing their respective boxes with one another," Meador said. "Because of their inability to work together, they both lose their boxes. In the end they learn to share and work together." The moral of the story - along with the brutal frankness of a child audience - were among the main reasons Meador decided to get involved with the production.