Minnetonka earns top honors in one act play

Katherine Fried, who plays Vivian Bearing Ph.D., and Madison McDaniel, Susie Monahan, during Minnetonka’s one act play of “Wit.” Minnetonka earned top honors at the 2013 State One Act Play Festival sponsored by the Minnesota State High School League. The two-day festival was conducted at O’Shaughnessy Auditorium on the St. Catherine University campus in St. Paul. (Sun staff photo by Rick Orndorf)

From left, Madison McDaniel, Katherine Fried and Will Hooverman, who plays Jason Posner M.D., during the performance of Wit. Minnetonka’s performance of “Wit” by Margaret Edson earned them a “Star Performance” and was directed by R. Kent Knutson and Erik Paulson. Minnetonka was making its ninth appearance and earned its ninth “starred” rating. (Sun staff photo by Rick Orndorf)

From left, Karl Amundson, who plays Technician, Evan Goosen, who plays Code Team, Madison McDaniel and Katherine Fried during the one act performance of Wit. In this production, Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned scholar and professor of English who has spent years teaching the brilliant sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. She is admitted to one of the nation’s best teaching hospitals. She undergoes a rigorous experimental chemotherapy program, which will force her to reassess her life and her work with profundity and humor that transform both her and the audience. (Sun staff photo by Rick Orndorf)