895914_art_deco_theatre.jpgA couple days ago, Gretchen and I went to the second of the Finals Week competitions, this one in theatre.  It was held downtown, and in order to keep the competition from taking all day, each school/team put on a 15-minute one-act play.  The whole thing was a about 2 and a half hours long, and during the intermission, the Culinary Institute of Pittsburgh held a competition among their students of who made the best hors d’oeuvres.  It was a new feature, but I’m thinking they should do something like that for all the competitions!  If they advertised it too much, though, there would be a standing-room only crowd.  College students are attracted to free food very much like moths are attracted to light.

The plays that different students came up with were fascinating.  There was a comedy about a college kid going back in time to the nineties, a few dramas about life and all that can go wrong, a sci-fi one based on Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot”, and then my favorite, a short excerpt from Hamlet, but performed in Pittsburghese.  It’s fair to say that I have no taste.

The “I, Robot” play won the competition, and it was deserving. After the show, Gretchen and I passed on the after-party and returned home to do some more studying.  If there weren’t any finals, finals week would be really sweet.