Theatre Department
Season Performance Schedule
Fall 2009
Measure for Measure
by William Shakespeare
Nov. 6, 7, 12, 13 & 14 at 7:30 PM
Mainstage Theatre
Directed by Kathleen Worley
featuring Allison Rangel as Isabella (the performance portion of her literature/theatre thesis)
One of Shakespeare's most intriguing and rarely performed plays, Measure for Measure is a dark comedy of passion and reason, lust and justice, with a bed trick and a head trick and various instances of doubling and disguise. "Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority.." turns in quite unexpected directions while seeking perfection in an imperfect world of prisons, whorehouses, nunneries and the infamous "moated grange."
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The Miss Firecracker Contest
By Beth Henley
An acting thesis by Jessamyn Fitzpatrick, Directed by Rosalie Lowe
November 19, 20, & 21 at 7:30 pm
Carnelle Scott spent the first 23 years of her life in Brookhaven sleeping around, acquiring nothing but a case of the syph and a bad reputation. While a few simple shots can cure the one, only something as spectacular as The Miss Firecracker Contest can take her from fallen woman to southern belle. With cousins back from marriages and mental institutions, a peculiar seamstress and the carnival balloon man Carnelle will take the stage and strive to leave her checkered past behind in a crimson blaze of glory.
I Have Tasted Air Above the Clouds: The Life of a Sibyl
A thesis project written and Directed by Mic Parker
February 25, 26 & 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Studio Theatre
She was the most famous prophetess of the ancient world. A word from the Cumaean Sibyl averted war, exposed traitors, razed cities to the ground. One of the most powerful women ever and one of the most powerless. This modern adaptation of Virgils Sixth Book of the Aeneid tells the story like you've never heard it before, incorporating music, dance and the enduring strength of one of history's unsung heroines.
A Community-Based Theater/Anthropology Thesis
by Taiga Christie
March 25, 26 & 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Studio Theatre
This production will be an experiment in community-based theater (theater conducted with and for a specific community), with the goal of questioning assumptions and promoting discussion and dialogue. A collaboratively-created performance taken from true individual stories, this production hopes to provide insight into the many different truths that make up any community, and to question our ways of reconciling these different experiences.
Antigone
by Jean Anouilh
adapted by translated by Lewis Galantière
Directed by Kate Bredeson
April 2. 3. 8, 9 & 10 at 7:30 PM
Mainstage Theatre
First produced in German-occupied Paris during World War Two, Anouilh's version of the Greek myth is a meditation on power, responsibility, and duty. When Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, niece of King Creon, defies her uncle's orders and buries her brother who has been left out to rot, she instigates a fatal series of actions, reactions, decrees and punishments. Despite debates with her nurse, her sister, her future husband, and an extended tête-à-tête with Creon, Antigone remains unwavering in her convictions and true to her beliefs. A model of resistance and focus, the story of Antigone remains provocative and powerful as a meditation on duty and strength. Galantière's adaptation and translation deftly reveal Anouilh's poetic retelling of the classic myth.
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
You may also call 777-7284 for reservations.
Performances begin at 7:30pm unless otherwise noted.
