Two new theatre companies have emerged on campus, one of which is called Lepus Lunam! Lepus Lunam was founded this semester by students in THRE 3325 Theatre and Fine Arts Management. Professor LW Miller challenged the class to build two new theatre companies from the ground up. This article will focus on Lepus Lunam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lepus Lunam seeks to entertain and enrich the minds of their audience with new ideas for theatre as well as provide opportunities for those who want to become a part of the theatre community. Executive Director Lee Neighbours explains the name\u2019s origin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe were having a hard time with names, and we ended up going on a random name generator for our company. And we really liked the one\u2014it was \u2018rabbit in the moon.\u2019 We really liked that. We really connected with it. \u2018Rabbit in the moon\u2019 was a very recognizable thing to advertise. And then we looked it up and there were a lot of things associated with \u2018rabbit in the moon.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To make their company standout they translated \u201crabbit in the moon\u201d into the Latin \u201cLepus Lunam,\u201d which is now featured in their company logo created by Artistic Director Natalie Thompson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lepus Lunam is run by seven students: Technical Directors Dalton Martinez and Matt Lamar, Artistic Directors Natalie Thompson and Mackenzie Farias, Marketing Directors Emma Gates and Abigail Brown, and Chief Financial Officer Rob Charles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are all very new to this and learning,\u201d says Neighbours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between attending classes, working jobs, and participating in other theatre productions, running a theatre company has not been easy for these inexperienced but ambitious students. But they\u2019ve learned many important skills along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Martinez says, \u201cI\u2019ve been tasked was building a website from the ground up. I\u2019ve spent many hours trying to create a website for our company with no experience doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Neighbors details his experience as Executive Director, \u201cI\u2019ve done mostly everything\u2014I\u2019ve had a hand in every department. I do all of the scheduling and delegating of tasks. I decide what needs to get done, when, and who\u2019s going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite these challenges, the producers of Lepus Lunam feel optimistic for the future of their company and careers in theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Martinez says, \u201cI hope that the company will continue past the upcoming end of the semester. Thus far, with the challenges we\u2019ve overcome, this company has the potential to expand past McMurry. Potential to go out into the real world and do bigger and better things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their first production is Once Upon THIS Time<\/em> by Richard Gremel, a play about classic fairytales and how well they hold up when viewed from a modern perspective. Once Upon THIS Time<\/em> is directed by Class of \u201822 alumn and Digital Media Specialist Savannah Wilchar and features a hilarious cast of McMurry students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neighbours says, \u201cI think the most important thing to me now is that people come and enjoy our show. Because we\u2019ve put in a lot of time into getting this set up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Come see Once Upon THIS Time<\/em> tomorrow Saturday, November 12th at 11:30 am in Bishop\u2019s Hall in Old Main!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two new theatre companies have emerged on campus, one of which is called Lepus Lunam! Lepus Lunam was founded this semester by students in THRE 3325 Theatre and Fine Arts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-9","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Untitled-design-11.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mcm.edu\/herald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}