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OCTC Holding Open Auditions for Getting Out

August 22, 6:30 p.m. in Blandford Hall

by Bernie Hale

Owensboro, KY (08/15/2018) — Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Oak Island Theatre has been holding productions since 1989. Dr. Julia Ledford has been at the helm for all of those productions, most often as Director. But this time the opportunity has presented itself to tie a production directly to OCTC's Common Reading program. OCTC's Common Reading for fall 2018 will be a play written by the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning Kentucky-native playwright Marsha Norman, Getting Out. Open auditions for the production will be held on August 22 at 6:30 p.m. in OCTC's Blandford Lecture Hall.

Ledford added, "We have performed Norman's work 'Night Mother in the past and I look forward to working on this production. Norman crafts strong but complicated female roles. Our auditions and performances are always open to interested community members, students, and employees."

The play will run Thursday - Saturday October 25-27 at 7:30 p.m. and be held in Blandford Lecture Hall on OCTC's main campus at 4800 New Hartford Road.

Norman earned a John Gassner Medallion and the American Theater Critics Association Citation for Getting Out. The story revolves around a young woman released from prison after eight years, returning to and re-adapting to her life in Kentucky.

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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.

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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.

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