{"id":694,"date":"2014-02-25T21:17:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T21:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/admissions\/?p=694"},"modified":"2021-10-15T21:01:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T21:01:59","slug":"time-love-and-coffee-making-the-fractal-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/admissions\/blog\/time-love-and-coffee-making-the-fractal-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Time, Love and Coffee: Making “The Fractal Pattern”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A little over a year ago, a small group of college students gathered inside Mugby Junction. We opened our laptops, pulled up our emails, and double clicked on something our friend and peer, Conlan Carter, had written: a play called \u201cThe Fractal Pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since that first gathering, \u201cThe Fractal Pattern\u201d has gone through many drafts and stages, including a staged reading at the end of last semester. Each of these was an achievement for Carter\u2019s script and, this week, Carter\u2019s play will finally be publicly performed before the university community.<\/p>\n

The WSU Theater and Dance Department will host an official production<\/a> complete with sets, costumes, lights and actors.<\/p>\n

Putting together the production has been a whirlwind process, one that Carter finds extremely rewarding. When asked what he thought was most enjoyable about the process, Carter said, \u201cIt has been wonderful to see how one artistic idea can grow. That\u2019s one of my favorite things about theatre: it\u2019s all collaborative.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the script began as Carter\u2019s personal project, it\u2019s grown into a multi-person production with people reading, interpreting, and working with his words.<\/p>\n

As exciting as the process can be, however, Carter also said it was also a little frightening. The script has changed since that initial draft we read through at Mugby Junction, and Carter confided to me that the editorial process was full of self-doubt, \u201cYou hear the words you have written so many times,\u201d he said, \u201cYou wonder whether or not that was a good line, beat, character choice, et cetera.\u201d<\/p>\n

He mentioned that, though the show will be staged this week, he\u2019s still not finished revising. Carter likes to save all of his old drafts, just in case he changes his mind about an idea and decides to revisit it later on.<\/p>\n

Conlan\u2019s current version of this production opens in the PAC black box theatre at 7:30 pm on Thursday and runs through Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

Although the tickets are free to Winona students, they can still be \u201cpurchased\u201d at the PAC black box. Seats in the theater are limited in number, and the department recommends that audience members should be at least thirteen years old because of strong language and content.<\/p>\n

Though staging \u201cThe Fractal Pattern\u201d has required a lot of time, love, and coffee, Carter believes that\u2019s what makes it so special. The show has developed and grown exponentially over the past year and, this weekend, it will finally have its turn in the limelight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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