Most Penn State students have probably seen Phroth Magazine on campus, but may have not seen Phroth's theatrical side.

Pronounced 'froth,' the magazine is a compilation of college-aged humor geared toward Penn State students.

This weekend, No Refund Theatre will perform an original Phroth script for this year's annual Phroth Phest.

Laura Davies (junior-film and video and English) is the assistant director of the show.

"[Phroth Phest] has been a tradition as long as I've been here," Davies said. "It's written by the writers of Phroth and NRT performs it."

The script is comical and appeals to different people, Davies said.

"It's different every year," Davies said. "Usually geared toward college kids and uses popular things and current events. It's kind of set up like Saturday Night Live. It's mostly scripted."

Every year, the two groups try to find a link between Phroth and NRT and, this year, that person was Steve Menegozzi (senior-film and video). He will be the director of this year's Phroth Phest.

"I'm the director and a writer for the magazine," Menegozzi said. "It's a collection of sketches, and it goes over to NRT to direct and perform it."

Phroth Phest wasn't always held in the Forum, Menegozzi said.

"This will be the fourth, maybe fifth, year for [the show]," he said. "It started out as a LateNight HUB thing, but went to the Forum after the first year."

Menegozzi said that there's nothing in particular that they use for inspiration when compiling the sketches, but rather they use anything that will make them laugh.

"We'll talk to each other with a million ideas, and if it's something that we see as having potential in it, we keep it," Menegozzi said.

As for this year's content, Davies said that the show features a lot of doctors.

"I guess doctors are funny," Davies said. "I don't know. Last year it was similar. Same type of humor, a lot of the actors are the same too."

Menegozzi said the theme of doctors in this year's show was unintentional.

"It's just a bunch of ideas that involved hospitals," Menegozzi said. "Kind of odd, but it's whatever odd ideas we come up with."

Chelsea Compton (senior-theatre and film and video), an actress in the show, said that she thinks Phroth Phest is hilarious, and she is happy to be involved.

"I was in Phroth Phest last year," Compton said. "I worked with [Menegozzi] on other projects, and I tried out, and I got in."

Compton said that one of the best things about this show is that the cast members get to play many different characters. In one of her sketches, she said, she plays the mother of a son going into gynecology school.

"Everyone is in about four or five sketches," Compton said. "In one, it's called "Wake Up", where it is about putting these two scientists in reoccurring scenes. They wake up and it's 50 years later and each time new things are invented."

Compton said the biggest strength of Phroth Phest is that the writers come up with a brilliant script every year.

"The writers of Phroth Magazine are just really clever and hilarious," Compton said. "I think the audience loves that type of humor. It's an absurd humor. People are laughing hysterically. There's always a huge audience."

Menegozzi said he promises that the show will be a good time and hopes everyone will come to the Forum to watch.

"It's free, and we worked really hard," Menegozzi said. "If you enjoy sketch comedy, you'll like it. It's something to do before you get drunk on St. Patrick's."