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Theater > 2009 – 2010 Season
Maggie Speer, well known for her intense dramatic style, directs Lorca’s dark and mysterious The House of Bernarda Alba. This play, which features an all female cast, is set in pre-Fascist Spain, 1935. Religion, tradition, fear, and suspicion drive this over-protective mother and her five daughters to monstrous acts. The tension in this classic 20th century play is overwhelming and oppressing. Locked in the house together for seven years of mourning, the women taunt and toy with each other's emotions, secret longings, and frustrated lives. This beautifully poetic work by Lorca, written just before he was murdered by the Fascists invading his home in Andalusia, promises to be a shattering, explosive production.
Directed by Maggie Speer
Performances:
November 5 - 7 and 12 - 14, 2009
Thursday – Saturday, nightly at 8 p.m.
Saturday matinee at 2 p.m.
Student directors present an evening of one-act plays! This year’s edition is a showcase for the students in Sean Graney’s Directing course. There will be two performances only, and each evening will be a different group of plays directed by different student directors!
Performances:
Friday December 4, 2009 at 8pm
Saturday December 5, 2009 at 8pm
NB: For this production, there is no Thursday performance and no Saturday matinee!
Translated/adapted by Timothy Mooney
Tim Mooney, known for his "Molière Than Thou" solo performance here last fall, will guest-direct his own translation of Molière’s hilarious indictment of religious hypocrisy, complete with sexual situations and double-entendres galore! This fast and furious farce lampoons the kind of false and overblown-piety that seeks financial and sexual rather than spiritual rewards. Wait until you see the legendary “table scene” – temptation has never been funnier!
Performances:
February 11 - 13 and 18 - 20, 2010
Thursday – Saturday, nightly at 8 p.m.
Saturday matinee at 2 p.m.
For productions by student organizations, please check out Garrick Players, Poor Players Guild, and FLASH.