Junior Tori Brelsford, senior Ella Zubinei, sophomore Ivy Shove, and freshmen Jozi Heermans and Andrew Jones perform monologues during SNOT.
On April 15, Doane’s Theatre Honor Fraternity, Alpha Psi Omega (APO), hosted its annual Short Night of Theatre, referred to as SNOT. This event is a long-standing tradition of APO, as they put this together as their last event in the academic school year. It features campus theatre-lovers showcasing scenes, monologues, tech and musical performances. Senior Ella Zubieni, now the former president of APO, was asked about putting this event together.
“It’s a very collaborative moment. We all have different things we can bring to the table,” Zubieni said “I don’t know anything about sound, connecting, anything like that, so I have Adam [Millikan] on my team. Sam [Feng] is helping with things like mics and stuff like that. But this time Tori [Brelsford] wrote the script, and I kind of helped set it up and put it together.” So SNOT is always this collaborative process where a lot of APO exec members can help contribute in their own ways, and this year was no different. SNOT is also a special event as it focuses on all aspects of theatre.
“So we do Cabaret first semester, and Cabaret is usually strictly musical theatre,” Zubieni said. With Cabaret being the attention-grabbing theatre showcase always before the first show opens, it gets the campus interested in what the department and APO have to offer.
“I think most of our department is so much more than just musical theatre. We don’t even have a musical theatre focus at Doane. So that’s why we kind of try to open it up,” Zubieni said.
“We also do this now that inductions are in the fall to have exposure for freshmen who might want to join APO,” Zubieni said. She would describe APO as a theatre honors group where they focus on getting students to be more tight-knit, as theatre students may not always get to hang out and have fun together all the time.
This year’s SNOT showcase featured 11 total performances, with six being musical pieces and five being either a scene or a monologue. The two scenes performed were written by the playwriting class and were performed as a staged reading by individuals currently taking that course. According to Zubieni, this year’s SNOT showcase was the best one yet.
