MCCC Student Ryland Beck to Present Original Play Under the Hood in Pottstown

Fairy tales are intriguing to Ryland X. Beck -- especially the way so many versions exist of each old story.

His own family, of German background, shared some darker versions of the tales with him, while dancing around the truly gruesome plot lines, says the second-year student at Montgomery County Community College.

"I'm fascinated by how many variations there are of one story, with different endings and different details added and taken away, and how much a story changes through word of mouth," explains Beck, 21, of Green Lane.

It has inspired him to write his own fairy-tale-based play Under the Hood, which will be staged on May 11 at noon and again at 1:30 p.m. by MCCC's West End Theatre Group in the open-air theater at Riverfront Park, 140 College Drive, Pottstown.