Butler County Community College’s Pioneer Players will perform monologues based on scripts written by the college’s writers club in “Love-Logues: A Night of Original Monologues.” The shows will be at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 and 14 in the Succop Theater on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township. From left are Tanner Hohmann, Grove City, BC3’s writers club; Jess Sentgeorge, Butler, a member of the club and the Pioneer Players; and Camden Rockcastle and Juliana Van Hoozen, both of Butler, Pioneer Players members. Submitted photo

Butler County Community College’s theater troupe returns next week after a four-year hiatus with free public performances of monologues about an emotion, a BC3 professor said, in which one experiences a rapid heartbeat, becomes shaky and begins to perspire, and that “feels a lot like fear.”

Love, Mike Dittman added, “is probably the most powerful emotion. Think about how it upsets you. There’s a French phrase for having a crush. Coup de foudre. You go crazy.

“And I think everyone can relate to that.”

The Pioneer Players’ performance of “Love-Logues: A Night of Original Monologues” — in collaboration with BC3’s writers club and in recognition of Valentine’s Day — will be at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 and 14 in the Succop Theater on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township.

The shows will last about 75 minutes, said Christopher Bondi, a BC3 assistant professor of communications and adviser of the Pioneer Players. Performers will dress in attire appropriate for each monologue.

Bill Foley is coordinator of news and media content at Butler County Community College.

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