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Connecticut College Theater Department
2007 - 2008 Season
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Theater Department presents: Co-directed by Leah Lowe and Nancy Hoffman The first show of the Theater Department's main stage
season is part of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race
and Ethnicity's year-long examination of Race in the Arts. Where
We're Coming From is a student-generated performance
piece that explores experiences of race, ethnicity, and identity
at Connecticut College and beyond. |
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Theater Department presents: By Girish Karnad Tickets: students $6.00, general $8.00 Naga-Mandala, by Girish Karnad, is based on two traditional oral tales from India. One of these stories revolves around Rani, a young wife confined to her house by her husband, who is seduced by a cobra that takes on the form of her husband by night. This tale is played out by supernatural agents before a playwright who, due to a curse, must remain awake all night or be struck dead. |
Theater and Music Departments present: A Musical Songs by Directed and conducted by Gerald Moshell Tickets: students $7.00, general $12.00 Based on the Studs Terkel book of the same name, the musical "Working" looks at the American worker through songs, ensembles, scenes, and monologues, with a view to ensuring the dignity of those whose jobs aren't the ones that society tends to glamorize - be it waitress or construction worker or receptionist or parking-lot attendant. The original Broadway production was directed and spearheaded by Stephen Schwartz ("Godspell," "Pippin," "Wicked"), though the musical score was written by a group of six composers and lyricists, including the renowned James Taylor. Schwartz himself wrote five of the numbers. |
Theater Department presents: Directed by Ben Fisher '08 Tansill Theater Tickets: students $6.00, general $8.00 Dr. Eduard Huml, a social scientist, is struggling to maintain both a marriage and an affair while simultaneously attempting to seduce his secretary and write an essay on the nature of happiness. Into this maelstrom is thrown a team of government researchers whose mission is to measure Huml's individuality with the aid of a machine called Puzuk. Part romantic farce and part political allegory, the play looks at the comedy and danger of what happens when people choose to be dominated and dehumanized. This irreverent, nonlinear, absurd comedy is the third play by Václav Havel, the celebrated writer, revolutionary, and former president of the Czech Republic. |
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Theater Department presents: Titles to be announced. Directed and conducted by Gerald Moshell The January Musicals comprise four complete musicals, presented in repertory over one weekend in a black-box setting with the accent on inventive staging and choreography. Though titles have not yet been finalized, possible choices include "A New Brain," "Baby," "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," and "Painting It Red."
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