Academics
Garrick Players > 2006-07 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.
Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show
Directed by Dennis Mae
PERFORMANCES: Thursday, Friday, Saturday
November 2, 3, 4 and 9, 10, 11, 2006
7:30 p.m. nightly with an extra Saturday show at
11 p.m
The cult classic invades Lake Forest!! When Brad and Janet's car breaks down on a stormy night, the only place to turn is an eerie castle nearby. Soon they are caught up in the world of Dr. Frank N. Furter and an outrageous cast of characters such as Riff-Raff, Columbia, Magenta and, of course, Rocky. It's rock and roll. It's sci-fi. It's horror flicks. It's a transvestite circus!
Student-Directed One-Acts
PERFORMANCES: Thursday, Friday, Saturday
November 30, December 1, 2, 2006
8:00 p.m. nightly with a Saturday matinee at 2:00 p.m.
Student directors present new interpretations of contemporary and classic works.
The Plough and the Stars
By Sean O'Casey
Directed by Maggie Speer
PERFORMANCES: Thursday, Friday, Saturday
February 22, 23, 24, and March 1, 2, 3, 2007
8:00 p.m. nightly with a Saturday matinee at 2:00 p.m.
The story follows the residents of a Dublin tenement in the months leading up to the 1916 Easter Uprising. They are a varied lot, from the colourful handyman Fluther Good, whose malapropisms are good for a laugh, to Nora and Jack Clitheroe, a young couple divided by the conflicting needs of living and dying for one’s country. Among other denizens of this socially, psychologically, and politically charged space are Bessie Burgess, the formidable drunken mother of an Irish boy fighting for King and Country in World War I and the ranting socialist Young Covey, whose pronouncements of political failure leave little room for ambiguity about O’Casey’s disillusion with nationalism.
Playwrights-in-Progress XXVI
PERFORMANCES: Thursday, Friday, Saturday
March 29, 30, 31, 2007
8:00 p.m. nightly with a Saturday matinee at 2:00 p.m.
Premieres of new works by student authors, mentored by artists from Chicago's renowned Victory Gardens Theater.
Read scripts:
Children's Theater Project with Griffin Theater
Auditions: February 12 and 13, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
PERFORMANCES: Thursday, Friday, Saturday
April 19, 20, 21 and 26, 27, 28, 2007 at
7:30 p.m. nightly with a Saturday matinee at 2:00
A well-known work of young people’s literature will be adapted by William Massolia and directed by Richard Barletta of Chicago's Griffin Theater in collaboration with Lake Forest College students.