The Bucks County
Community College Drama
Club will present
Wendy Macleod’s
“Sin” as its spring production.
The play follows
aerial traffic
reporter Avery Bly on
High and the people in
her life, each representing
one of the
seven deadly sins.
The show runs for
two weekends in May-
Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday nights- and
will be held in the
Gallagher Room at the
college.
“Sin,” explains
Assistant Director
Kyre Gottschalk, is
based on the quote,
“Don’t look at the stick
in someone’s eye without
looking at the log
in your own.'”
Kayleigh Liggitt,
who just turned 18 in
February, is head
director. Having been assistant
director for the Drama Club’s
winter performance of
Macbeth, she is excited to have
her own show.
“It’s really hard,” she says.
“It’s a lot of work and it’s a lot
of keeping everybody in check.
But at the same time, it’s so
much fun and rewarding. The
cast is incredible. I’m younger
than all of them, but they don’t
look at my age… they all are
very respectful, and I’m very,
very appreciative of that.”
Gottschalk adds, “It’s not just
helping out with the actors, but
you’re dealing with the sets,
and, specifically, what’s being
involved in each set- the props
all the way down to the clothing…
not just how people are
saying the lines, but where
they sit, where they enter,
where they leave.”
Some cast members come to
the show with experience,
while others are acting for the
first time.
At a recent rehearsal, Avery,
played by Allie Kelly, is out
with a “Date,” played by Clint
Johnson. Liggitt watches them
intently, occasionally providing
a missed line. In the scene,
the Date rambles on about
money and the evils of
Communism, oblivious to the
fact that Avery grows more and
more exasperated by the
minute.
Johnson sprawls out in his
seat, legs up on a chair, grandly
boasting in a voice that
reverberates throughout the
room. Meanwhile, Avery cowers
and inches away in her own
seat, the disgust in her expression
undeniable.
While Avery observes the
sins in others, she is also slowly
recognizing them in herself,
and Kelly, with her slight and
anxious mannerisms, gets this
across. When they have finished
the scene, Liggitt asks
them to do it again.
The Seven Deadly Sins
include pride, wrath, sloth,
lust, gluttony, envy, and greed.
Avery’s boss Jason represents
wrath, her brother Gerard, who
is dying of AIDS, represents
pride, and her roommate Helen
represents gluttony.
Dave Piccinetti plays Avery’s
ex-husband, Michael, the
embodiment of sloth. “She
doesn’t sin enough, as far as
my character thinks,” says
Piccinetti. “He says that he
sins for her… she doesn’t have
enough sin. She doesn’t have
enough fun.”
Rob Caso, who, as producer,
is the go-between man
between the production and
Student Life, says that the
show “has serious drama
moments, but also has some
comedy sprinkled in. We’ve
got some very capable actors
walking that fine line between
serious and funny. It’s definitely
intended for older audiences-
I wouldn’t necessarily
bring the kids.”
“What caught me right away
was the transformation of the
main character,” says Liggitt.
Avery is “completely incapable
of seeing all the things
that are wrong with her, and
then she goes through this play,
which plays on the seven deadly
sins, and she ends up committing
each of them. That
really struck a chord with me,
and I think it will strike a chord
with a lot of other people, too.”
“She’s not perfect just
because she’s a Christian,”
Gottschalk adds, “And this is
me saying this as a Christian.
Just because you’re trying
to be in God’s image doesn’t
mean you are perfect.
You’re not. I’m not. And
neither is this character.”
Gottschalk encourages
students to come out and
“see what people your age
are capable of doing.”
“Everyone is loving
what they’re doing, and
you can see it on the
stage,” she says. “When
the actors are enjoying
what they’re doing, I think
so does the audience.”
“We’re all human, and
we all mess up, and we all
make bad decisions,”
explains Liggitt. “But in
the end, we’re all capable
of all seven of the deadly
sins.” Avery “thinks she’s
better than everyone else,
but then she finds out she’s
capable of doing all these
terrible things that she
never thought possible.
That didn’t make her a bad person;
it made her human.”
The cast, in alphabetical
order, are:
Avery – Allie Kelly
Date – Clint Johnson
Fred – AJ Velichko
Gerard – Bobby Lang
Helen – Whitney-Alana
Wright
Jason – Keith Maliszewski
Man – Rob Caso
Michael – Dave Piccinetti
Show dates are May 5, 6, 7,
12, 13, and 14, all at 8 p.m. in
the Gallagher Room at Bucks.
Tickets are $7 for adults and $5
for children and students.