Academics
Garrick Players > 2005-06 Season
All performances are held in the Allan Carr Theater in Hixon Hall on the College’s South Campus, near the intersection of Maplewood and Sheridan roads.
General admission tickets are $7 and $3 for seniors, students with a valid ID, alumni, and children. There is no charge for Lake Forest College students, faculty, and staff. To reserve a ticket call 847-735-5216.
The Unseen Hand
November 3, 4, and 5
November 10, 11, and 12
Thursday evening performances are at 8 p.m.
Friday and Saturday shows are at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Directed by Maggie Speer
Sam Shepard's haunting protest against the dehumanizing tendencies of modern societies is a powerful affirmation of the human spirit. The play is set "after the revolution" in a surrealistic and Kafkaesque world. Nogoland is an area ruled absolutely into which three brothers, old style "desperadoes" from the Wild West, have been summoned out of the 19th century by the single individual who is trying to throw off the yoke of his inhuman oppressors.
Student Directed One Acts
December 1, 2, and 3
8 p.m. nightly with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday
Student directors present new interpretations of contemporary and classic works.
More details TBA
The Tempest
February 16, 17, and 18
February 23, 24, and 25
8 p.m. nightly with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturdays
A new adaptation of the classic romance by William Shakespeare with lyrics, design and direction by Dennis Mae, director of theater, music by Don Meyer, chair of the Music Department, and visuals by Tom Denlinger, assistant professor of art. The production staff also includes student designers, directors, dramaturgs and musicians.
Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, has been stranded on an island for the past twelve years with his daughter Miranda and Caliban, the half-human child of a sorceress. Through his great knowledge and skill in magic Prospero manipulates Ariel and other spirits to create a tempest bringing his adversaries to the island to face his retribution. Themes of slavery, colonialism, treachery and murder clash with the power of love, brotherhood, morality and forgiveness.
Playwrights-In-Progress
March 30, 31, and April 1
Director Information
8 p.m. nightly with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday
Premieres of new works by student authors, mentored by artists from Chicago's renowned Victory Gardens Theater. More details TBA.
On the Verge
April 20, 21, and 22
April 27, 28, and 29
8 p.m. nightly with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday
By Eric Overmeyer, directed by Stuart Carden.
Following three Victorian ladies, dressed in fulsome traveling regalia, as they hack their way through just one more of their funny jungles or climb their way over the unmenacing (for them) peaks of the Himalayas attempting to conquer their last "terra incognita" is a riot of silliness. That they wind up in the uncharted, unconscionable future of the mid-1950s still yearning for a life of adventure and relationships is the geography of yearning "On the Verge" mischievously and affectionately explores.
Slowly the women are exposed to an infestation by the future of all kinds of schlocky forms. On the ground they find such artifacts as eggbeaters and "I Like Ike" buttons, while In their heads dance such inexplicable phrases as "Red Chinese" and "Mr. Coffee." The adventurers respond differently to future shock. One "embraces the future with all her heart," one accepts it like "cyclones, pit vipers, and bad grammar," and one pushes on, scientifically intoxicated, into the future of future. Like the author, they are obsessed with words as much as things. It doesn't make any difference whether they claim to despise the words they use as slang, or appropriate them for jingle and rock-lyric writing, or use them as a way of reaching for the galaxies of the unknown, words are the hooks Overmyer uses to snag an audience. Is "On the Verge" a sardonic cultural history couched in wordplay, or merely jaundiced time-tripping? That's for the pleasure of each viewer to decide.