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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 3:58 PM

By Elliot J. Sutherland/The Ottawa Herald

Ottawa University sophomore Meagan Wilcox, left, plays the part of Kris/Desiree while OU’s Lauren Frazier takes on the role of Kerri Tuesday night at the Larry Peters Auditorium on the campus of Ottawa University during a rehearsal for OU’s coming production of “Face Value.” The show will run at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $5 at the door.

What’s your ‘Face Value?’

By BRIAN WILLIAMS, Herald Staff Writer

    OUTheatre will take a humorous look at the effect image perceptions have on us.

   OUTheatre will present the world premiere of “Face Value,” an original play by Kansas City playwright Frank Higgins, 8:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at the Larry Peters Auditorium, 1001 S. Cedar St., Ottawa. Tickets are $5.

   Face Value centers around Kris, played by Meagan Wilcox, an overweight and less-than-beautiful TV anchor who is fired because of bad ratings. She decides to have plastic surgery to change her image and re-emerges as the beautiful Desiree.

   Some of the funniest moments of the play occur when the characters break “out of time” and attempt to sell their points of view by speaking directly to the audience, Jeanne Chinn, OUTheatre director, said in a press release.

   “The joy comes from doing the work and having an audience see a play that touches them in both their hearts and minds,” Higgins said. “You want it to be entertaining, but not just entertaining.”

   The cast also includes OU technical director Joel Williams as Herb, freshman Lauren Frazier as Kerri, senior Krystal Camille White as F. Margaret Maxwell, and continuing education student Kelli Tyner as Debi. Small cameos will be acted out by freshman Jared Boyer and Lydia Shontz, assistant director.

   The student technical director for the show is senior John Higginbotham and lighting design will be done by Ron Chinn.

   Higgins’ “Face Value” is OUTheatre’s Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival entry which will be judged by a selector from South Dakota and a respondent from Emporia State University. If selected, the show will move on to the regional competition in January 2008 at Omaha, Neb.

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What’s your ‘Face Value?’

By BRIAN WILLIAMS, Herald Staff Writer

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