Theatre Department
Season Performance Schedule
Fall 2011
Antarktikos
By Andrea Stolowitz
A staged reading directed by Kate Bredeson
September 30, 7:30pm
Black Box Theatre
This event is free to the public, and seats are available on a first-come, first serve basis. Reservations are not available for this performance. A Q&A with the playwright and dramaturg, Mead Hunter, will take place following the reading.
Antarktikos is a mind-bending new play about heroism, saying goodbye and moving forward. Somewhere between Oregon and Antarctica lie several points on a continuum: Susan, a writer at an artists residency at the South Pole; Captain Robert Falcon Scott, leader of the British Antarctic expedition of 1912; and Hilary, Susan's 21-year-old daughter. When an insomniac EMT named Alex becomes the hapless link among them, time collapses, geographies blend and destinies emerge.
Andrea Stolowitz is a graduate of the MFA playwriting program at UC-San Diego. Her plays have been developed and produced nationally and internationally at theaters like the Old Globe, The Long Wharf, Victory Gardens, and the Cherry Lane. Antarktikos has been developed at Artists Repertory Theater (OR), Key City Public Theater (WA), the 2011 New Harmony Project (IN), White Pine Productions Play Series (PA) dir: Ed Sobel (Arden Theater), and the JAW festival at Portland Center Stage. The play was named a finalist for PlayPenn (PA) and Premiere Stages (NJ).
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Glory Box
A performance by Tim Miller
October 11, 7:30pm
Mainstage Theatre
Cosponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center
Please check back for box office and reservation information; we will not be taking reservations via our standard box office system.
"Tim Miller sings that song of the self which interrogates, with explosive, exploding, subversive joy and freedom, the constitution and borderlines of selfhood. You think you don't need to hear such singing? You do! You must!” –Tony Kushner
Glory Box is a funny, sexy and charged exploration of Tim Miller's journeys through the challenge of love, marriage equality for gay Americans, and the struggle for immigration rights for gay Americans and their partners from other countries. From Miller's hilarious grade school playground battles over wanting to marry another boy to the harrowing travails of being in a bi-national relationship with his Australian lover, Glory Box leads the audience on an intense and humorous journey into the complexity of the human heart that knows no boundary. Glory Box (the term that Australians use for "hope chest") conjures an alternative site for the placing of memories, hopes and dreams of gay people's extraordinary potential for love.
Tim Miller is an internationally acclaimed solo performer. Hailed for its humor and passion, Miller's performance works have delighted and emboldened audiences all over the world at such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the London Institute of Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival. He is the author of the books SHIRTS & SKIN, BODY BLOWS, and 1001 BEDS, an anthology of his performances and essays which won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for best book in Drama-Theatre. Miller has taught performance at UCLA, NYU and the Claremont School of Theology. He is a co-founder of two of the most influential performance spaces in the United States: Performance Space 122 on Manhattan's Lower East Side and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA. He can be reached at his website www.TimMillerPerformer.com
Iphigenia and Other Daughters
by Ellen McLaughlin
directed by Kathleen Worley
November 4, 5, 10, 11 & 12, 7:30pm
Mainstage Theatre
In Iphigenia and Other Daughters, playwright Ellen McLaughlin offers a glimpse of the intimate thoughts and lives of those caught in the web of the House of Atreus. Using spare but poetic language, she weaves together the stories of Iphigenia, Electra, Chrysothemis and Orestes as they struggle to find a "sliver of light" in the darkness and "thread their way through to a different air."
Shakuntala: An Indian Fairytale
adapted from Kalidasa
directed by thesis candidate Indumathi Manohar
December 1, 2 & 3, 7:30pm
Mainstage Theatre
Set in a magical world of gods, kings and holy men, Sanskrit playwright Kalidasa's 5th century play is the most famous version of the classical Indian romance of the hermit-maiden Shakuntala, whose love for King Dushyanta is thwarted until a curse that keeps them apart is lifted. This production uses various storytelling techniques, from pure narration to pure movement, including elements from kathak dance-drama, to bring to life this enchanting story.
Spring 2012
Technical Bodies
Choreographed by thesis candidate Claire Thomforde-Garner
February 23, 24, and 25
7:30pm
Mainstage Theatre
Technical Bodies displays a high degree of physicality and distinct, transformative costumes in four duets as it explores different views of the body in wrestling—which, like dance, is surrounded by a highly stereotyped culture. Humorous and thoughtful, Claire Thomforde-Garner’s thesis production shows how costumes function to disguise the body and transform ordinary movements into the extraordinary, so don’t expect to see what you’ve seen before.
One Flea Spare
by Naomi Wallace
directed by Kate Bredeson
March 30, 31, April 5, 6 & 7, 7:30pm
Mainstage Theatre
In a landscape marred by red painted crosses that signal the plague, a couple’s 1600s London home is invaded on the last day of their month-long quarantine. When the invaders, a trickster sailor and a fractured young girl, spill into the house, they set off another twenty-eight day quarantine for all four of the occupants. In this ravaged and infected world,boundaries of culture, age and sex are transgressed through Wallace’s ruthless poetic language. Against a backdrop of pain and decay, Wallace writes a world of heartbreaking connection where to survive is to be wild.
The Fantastical Genderfuck Circus
Directed by thesis candidate Erika Irene Kurth
March 3, 3-4pm
Through and around campus
A puppet pageant inspired by the Bread and Puppet Theatre in Glover, Vermont, this production follows a journey for identity in a world where gender is not assumed, but is personally defined. With a focus on gender and identity in the context of both Reed and the wider world, this production also features a colorful, circus-like procession winding its way through and around campus. Both a quest for discovery and call for awareness, this thesis production celebrates the various paths we all take in search of our own sexuality and gender identity.
Thesis Shows
$3.00 General Admission
$2.00 Seniors and non Reed Students
$1.00 Reed Students, Faculty, Staff and Alumni
Faculty Shows
$5.00 General Admission
$3.00 Seniors and non Reed Student
$1.00 Reed Students, Faculty, Staff and Alumni
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Performances begin at 7:30pm unless otherwise noted.