Theatre Department
Season Performance Schedule
Spring 2013
BRB
directed by thesis candidate Autumn Dobbins
February 14, 9:30pm
February 15, 16, 7:30pm
Eliot Hall (Rooms 414 and 416)
BOX OFFICE IN ELIOT HALL
Monsters! Ghosts! Divine Sex! It's easy to bullet point The Odyssey into its most exciting parts, but is there really anything more that can be said about a book as monolithic as this epic poem? Reed students explore what anything from Homer's The Odyssey, a cornerstone of a Reed College education, has to do with being a Reed student in the present day in this devised interpretation of the classic.
Make a reservation"The House of Bernarda Alba" by Federico Garcia Lorca
directed by thesis candidate Andrew Brown
February 28, March 1, 2 at 7:30
Black Box Theatre
In the shadow of death, life struggles and emerges as a force of deadly change in Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba. Bernarda, after the death of her husband, pulls her house of five daughters into a sea of mourning. Hastily trying to marry off her oldest daughter while stifling and smothering the others in a dead end of domesticity and repression, Bernarda inadvertently creates a pressure cooker in her house, her unsustainable standard developing cracks through which life finds a way, asserting its inalienable presence and leaving its mark, for good and bad, on the entire family.
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Catherine Ming T'ien Duffly
April 5, 6, 11, 12, 13 at 7:30pm
Mainstage Theatre
Eurydice is a contemporary retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice story by MacArthur award-winning playwright, Sarah Ruhl, told from the perspective of Eurydice. The play offers a unique and poetic version of the classic myth, in which Eurydice must choose to rejoin the land of the living with Orpheus or to stay in the Underworld with her father. A meditation on language, love and memory, Eurydice suggests that although it is important to remember the past, we must not cling too tightly to memories, lest we become unable to move forward. Design for this production is by Peter Ksander and Melissa Schlachtmeyer.
Fall 2012
The Rocky Horror No Picture Show
directed by thesis candidate Tristan Nieto
costumes designed by thesis candidate Arion Russell
October 4, 5, & 6, 7:15pm
October 5, 10:00pm
Black Box Theatre
"I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey,"- Enter into the erotic nightmares and sensual daydreams of a struggling shadow cast as they attempt to perform their midnight ritual at the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Come cross-dressed to the nines, gender-bent or broken, consent-minded and sexy. Join us for a night out that you will remember for a very long time.
Warning: this performance is rated ARRR for sexual situations, explicit language, and an audience of unruly pirates.
Shakespeare As We Like It
Performance presentation by thesis candidate Lisa Henderson
October 9, 10 at 7:30pm
Student Union
Free Admission - no reservations needed
Using a modified version of Elizabethan theatre practices, Lisa has prepared a selection of monologues and scenes, primarily from As You Like It, designed to return Shakespeare to his roots as populist entertainment. The performance will attempt to give a theatre experience akin to what the Elizabethans would have had while sitting (or standing) in the environment of the Globe, munching food and commenting on the action, and participating as an active audience.
Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
directed by Kathleen Worley
November 2, 3, 8, 9, & 10 at 7:30pm
Mainstage Theatre
Based on Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker, Our Country's Good is a celebration of the transformational power of theatre. During the second year of the struggling Australian penal colony, a small group of convicts, under the direction of a young officer, staged a play. This play, written two hundred years later, imagines how that might have been accomplished and how the effort changed the lives of those involved. The play won the Olivier Award for Best Play and a Tony nomination. Design for this production is by Peter Ksander and Melissa Schlachtmeyer.
The play contains sexually explicit language which may make it inappropriate for younger audiences.
The Suede Jacket
adapted from a play by Stanislav Stratiev
directed by thesis candidate Elizabeth Dinkova
November 28, 29, 30, & December 1 at 7:30pm
Black Box Theatre
"The Suede Jacket" is an absurdist romp through socialist bureaucracy! Written in the 1970s, it's the story of Ivan Antonov, an idealistic young intellectual whose suede jacket is accidentally registered as a sheep. But not to worry! His loving government is there to make everything run smoothly. The bureaucratic machine duly churns him around. Antonov is gradually abandoned by the friends who initially came along to help him in the inferno of the tax office, full of doors leading nowhere and walled-up corridors. In the labyrinth of bureaucratic unconcern, will Antonov prevail, or will the Party crush his spirit?
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.