| Chelsea 11:17 was
a very casual theatrical group at Carleton College
for about ten years. Every Friday the
participants convened at Nourse Little Theater.
Those who had written scripts for the week brought
them; brief descriptions of the parts were read to the
audience by the facilitators, known as Chelsea Elves,
and distributed arbitrarily to volunteers. The
scripts were then performed without memorization or
rehearsal.
Chelsea was
blessed with many different traditions over the
years. It began as a forum for theater
students who wanted to air their ideas without going
to all the trouble of directing a play, and evolved
in time along with its constituency. It
ended due to dwindling participation during the
2002-03 school year, the year after I
graduated. Rest in peace, Chelsea 11:17.
Although I was
never an Elf, I was one of the most active
participants during my junior and senior
years. I wrote a total of 42 scripts,
reproduced below in chronological order.
Warning: This
represents my writing at a college level. Some
of these are dumb.
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