The Black Box theatre will feel more like a 1940s radio studio during “Sorry, Wrong Number,” directed by senior theatre arts major Jacob Foster.

The play is a radio play about a neurotic woman who receives a phone call telling her that she is going to die, and the whole play takes place over phone lines.

Foster, a senior theatre arts major, said radio plays are much different from traditional ones because actors must use their vocal talent as well as facial expressions to convey their messages to each other, whereas a traditional play would use hand gestures, body movements, and everything else actors do, and will act only with facial and vocal expressions.

Foster said the easiest thing about constructing his play was the set design because the set is a simple basic design, which he said is a play done within a radio station and that can be whipped up just about anywhere.

Brandon Wilson, a junior theatre arts major, said he plays three roles in the one act play. He is the narrator, a cop and a hit man and he said preparing for these roles was challenging.

“For me, finding the different characterizations and defining them was the hardest thing overall because of changing the speed and delivery of my lines as well as hitting different syllables wit different tones,” Wilson said.

Abby Wilburn, a freshman sociology major plays Mrs. Stevenson, the self-centered, neurotic housewife.

Wilburn said she focused on two or three important areas while she was rehearsing and practicing her part.

“I definitely had to focus on my vocals and had to have the ability to portray my character vocally, instead of in a traditional way,” Wilburn said.

Jose Gonzalez can be reached at 581-7944

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Abby Wilburn gets ready to practice for her role as Mrs. Stevenson in “Sorry, Wrong Number.”(Kim Foster

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