FALL
Stop Kiss
by Diana Son
A poignant and funny play about the ways, both sudden and slow, that lives can change irrevocably. After Callie meets Sara, the two unexpectedly fall in love. Their first kiss provokes a violent attack that transforms their lives in a way they could never anticipate.
bobrauschenbergamerica
by Charles Mee
A wild road trip through our American landscape--in a play made as one of America's greatest artists, Robert Rauschenberg, might have conceived it if he had been a playwright instead of a painter: a collage of people and places and music and dancing, of love stories and picnics and business schemes and shootings and chicken jokes and golfing, and of the sheer exhiliration of living in a country where people make up their lives as they go.
WINTER
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
by Frank McGuinness
February 4-7 @ 7:30
TBA on Midnight Show
An American doctor, an Irish journalist, and an English academic are being held captive by terrorists in Beirut. The three display their national biases and prejudices, which are intensified in the cramped confines of their cell. As time passes, resentments and recriminations give way to an acknowledgment of their characters, strengths and weaknesses. They learn that humor is their surest weapon against their captors and the safest armor to protect themselves. Each comes to know himself through listening to the stories, sorrows and joys of the others.
The House of Yes
by Wendy MacLeod
February 26-28 & March 4-7 @ 7:30 PM
February 28 @ 2 PM
Marty Pascal brings his fiancée home for Thanksgiving to meet his family, but his engagement is a threat to his mentally unbalanced sister Jackie-O, who has always wanted her brother for herself. This is also a family severely affected by the Kennedy family - their father left them on the very day JFK was assassinated. Jackie-O and Marty made a game out of reenacting the moment of the assassination, which became a sort of foreplay to their incestuous relationship. Finally Jackie-O goes over the edge and begins the reenactment game again, only this time with real bullets.
SPRING
Student Directed One-Acts
TBA
Spring Dance Concert
May 7, 8, 9 @ 7:30
Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
May 26-30 @ 7:30 PM
May 30 Matinee Show @ 2:00 PM
What happens after you solemnly swear to love, honor and OBEY? Seduced by her dowry, Petruchio sets out to tame the wild Kate and make her his bride by any means necessary. “Will you, nill you, I will marry you!” Kate has other ideas. This new take on the classic Shakespeare comedy sets the adventures of Kate and Petruchio in a television studio circa 1959. (Anyone over a certain age and fans of Mad Men may be familiar with this patriarchal, decidedly non-PC world). Audience members will be treated to a live studio performance complete with a three camera set-up and commercial breaks right out of the era. It’s sure to make you laugh and might just make you think (that is, if your husband will let you!).
Five O'Clock Shadow productions TBA
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