 On Friday, September 22nd, the University of Pikeville's theater program will begin preparing for their 24-hour theater show the following night. Students gather to write, memorize lines, and perform their own small-scale play all within a day's time. The show itself will be taking place at the Appalachian Center for the Arts where U-Pike students get free admittance. It's a lot of moving parts because it's really just theater in a day, right? You can consider it play in a day. Essentially, everyone meets up on the evening of our first day, which in this case will be the 22nd on Friday, and we pick teams in a way. So we've got writers who are going to write all night long, and then we've got actors and directors who will show back up the next morning to rehearse all day, and the performance goes on 24 hours later at 7 o'clock on Saturday. Anyone can be involved, so it's student run in a lot of ways as we're getting bigger, though, but we're opening it up to the community as well. At Appalachian Wireless, we have the best service and the best deals right now. Save up to $500 on iPhone 13th and 14th, all models, all gigabytes with trade-in. Maybe go for an iPhone 12 for a penny. A penny with a two-year contract. We're not leaving out Samsung. Save up to $350 on select Samsung devices, including the S23. It's a win-win this month at Appalachian Wireless, the service, the savings. Y'all got to jump on this deal right now. At Appalachian Wireless, we get you because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. The theater program at UPIKE has steadily grown over the years. More students have been getting involved with both writing and acting. Yeah, now that it's become annual and become part of the theater program, I know that there are already students who are starting to plan their plays ahead of time. During our previous production of Charlie Brown, the stage crew started thinking that they are going to do a play about being stage crew this year. So we'll see if that works out because, of course, there's a lot of unknowns. A lot of things get thrown at the writers at the last minute. They have to use a certain prop or they have to use this cast or another cast. But there's a lot of excitement around it. Every year it's been bigger, and I'm hoping it will be bigger again this year. The more people who participate, the more it can be student-run. The first year we did it, I had to direct a play, which I didn't mind, but now the students can't because we have enough participants. And so the more you get involved, the better, just the better time all around. And then hopefully our audience will be commensurially bigger as well. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Column.