Students performed and directed a variety of short plays written by Shel Silverstein last Thursday and Friday night.

Divided into two parts- “Shel’s Shorts” and “An Evening with Shel Silverstein,” the acting class used these two nights of productions as a part of their midterm exams.

Since the production was part of an actual class, a lot of the students performing were under the stage lights for the very first time.

The house was full the first night of the performance, requiring extra chairs to be brought in to accommodate the many audience members. The second night had a respectable crowd too.

“It was exciting,” said Stormie Jones, a Comm. Studies major and actress in the scene “Cotton.”

“It was a lot of fun. It was great to feed off of the crowd’s energy,” said Jones. Jones performed her scene both nights.

Most of the plays were filled with crude and sexual humor or lots of profanity- so naturally the mainly, college-aged crowd was rolling in laughter.

“I liked the inappropriateness,” said Allena Wiggers, a freshman Finance major, “I liked that it was college-level humor.”

In one piece entitled, “Gone to Take a…” the story was based around a man taking a break at work to… well… it rhymes with fit.

Cursing played a particularly heavy part in this short and one four-letter word seemed to take up most of the script.

“It was very funny how they kept repeating the actual word,” said Chantalyn Jackson, a freshman Nursing major. “Gone to Take a…” was Jackson’s favorite short of the night.

The particular short was even brought back the second night by popular demand according to Kyle Zimmerman, the professor of the class.

The props and costumes for each short were very minimal, meaning the plays relied heavily on the actor’s abilities to tell a story.

Each night was filled with a variety of different short plays. Even if students went both nights, they were given a different experience as audience members.