By Kyle Twardowski

Triton’s Call Staff

Some hooking, cheating and repeating went on at the University of Guam for two weeks straight. Not to fret–these three words were the themes of the student-directed scenes performed this Fall semester at the Fine Arts Theater at UOG.

The showings of the cumulative of eight plays ran from Nov. 12 to 14 and Nov. 19 to 21.

“Hook, Cheat, Repeat” showcased eight UOG student directed scenes dealing with, of course, hooking, cheating, and repeating.

Out of these eight scenes, five were also written by students from Tali Ariav’s UOG playwriting class.

Each of these scenes had three themes that seemed to attract the audiences with their vulgar dialogue, interesting and funny plot lines, and just knowing that these works of art were created by some of our fellow students should have made the experience that much sweeter.

“I love theater because it’s flesh and blood, you know, the art is not just acting, it’s drawing emotion from your crowd because the crowd is the last part of theater,” said Andrew Roberto, the writer of the one-act play titled “An Act to Save a Marriage.”

Roberto’s scene was the only one-act that contained elements of the Chamorro culture, bringing the audience into a modern day loss-of-love story of a married couple trying to bring their old, spicy marriage back into the picture.

After a few lines of Chamorro, and a few funny references to Chamorro stereotypes, the audience could not resist but laugh into tears.

“I want the Chamorro culture to have a space in art, because it’s not always represented well, and I wanted to give the Chamorro culture something it could be proud of and say ‘this is Chamorro theater,’” Roberto said.