Academics
Garrick Players > 2007- 08 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 Waiting Room
by Lisa Loomer
Directed by Maggie Speer
Auditions: 9/4 and 9/5/07
PERFORMANCES: Thursday, Friday, Saturday November 8-10, and 15-17, 2007 8:00 p.m. nightly with a Saturday matinee at 2:00 p.m.
Three women from different centuries meet in a modern doctor's waiting room. Husbands, doctors, Freud, the drug industry and the FDA all come under examination in a wild ride through medical and sexual politics.
Student-Directed One-Acts
Auditions: 10/15 and 10/16/07
PERFORMANCES: Thursday, Friday, Saturday December 6, 7, 8, 2007 8:00p.m. nightly with a Saturday matinee at 2:00 p.m.
Student directors present a evening of one-act plays by Christopher Durang, "a playwright whose plays have been produced on and off- Broadway, around the country and abroad. Keywords: satire, dark comedy, parody, funny, absurdist. Other key words: coffee, Yale School of Drama, zippers, age, lapsed Catholic, hiccups."
Sophocles' Electra
Directed by Caitlin Fergus
Auditions: 1/21 and 1/22/08
PERFORMANCES: Thursday, Friday, Saturday
March 27, 28, 29, and April 3, 4, 5, 2008
8:00 p.m. nightly with a Saturday matinee at 2:00 p.m.
Electra's duty is to avenge her father's murder, but this involves
killing her own mother. Sophocles' tragedy brings the action down to
the human sphere asking his audience to wonder at the level of
responsibility which man has for his own actions.
Big Love
by Charles L. Mee
Directed by Jonathan Berry
Auditions: 2/11 and 2/12/08 (with call backs 2/13)
PERFORMANCES: Thursday, Friday, Saturday
April 17-19, and 24-26, 2008
8:00 p.m. nightly with a Saturday matinee at 2:00 p.m.
Fifty brides flee their fifty grooms and seek refuge in a villa on the
coast of Italy in this modern re-making of one of the western world's
oldest plays, The Danaids by Aeschylus.