CENTRAL GRAD IN FESTIVAL CONTEST

BOSTON -- Brent Felker, the son of Suellen and Dr. John R. Felker Jr. of Cape Girardeau, will perform a leading role in the play "American Buffalo" at the American College Theatre Festival Feb. 25.

Felker, a junior at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, attended Central High School and is a performing arts major at Colby.

David Mamet's "American Buffalo" is a dark comedy focusing on three crooks in a junk shop plotting to steal a coin collection. The ensuing action holds a magnifying glass to the effects of greed and competitiveness in the capitalist system.

The Colby players competed with 36 schools and 80 productions to qualify for the regional festival. Other finalists are Middlebury College, Wellesley College, Harvard University, Boston University and the University of Massachusetts.

The winners will compete nationally at the Kennedy Center in Washington.