Clinton native Elena Schroeder participates in mainstage production at Bates College

2015 Nov 19

Elena Schroeder, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Schroeder of Clinton, Conn., assisted with the production of "Marie and the Nutcracker," the fall 2015 mainstage theater performance at Bates College.

The play was written and directed by Martin Andrucki, the college's Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater, who put a modern twist on German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann's original story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King."

Schroeder is a 2012 graduate of The Morgan School. She is majoring in mathematics at Bates.

The production, which ran from Nov. 5-9 at Schaeffer Theatre at Bates, gave students a firsthand glimpse into the playwriting process. "They learned something about how a play evolves during production, and how a playwright changes or revises the script in order to make it work on stage," Andrucki said. "And how important it is to have a sense of stagecraft as part of your equipment as a writer."

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