September
22-26, 2011 at 7:30 PM and September 25 at 2:30 PM
Edna
Minor Conn Theatre (Vest 305)
Wit –by Margret Edson
Directed by Prof. Dan Buck |
A brilliant English professor is known
f  or her nearly-clinical dissection and analysis of the works of metaphysical
poet John Donne. However, when she is diagnosed with cervical cancer and her
doctors put her on an experimental chemo regiment, she starts to feel like one
of those poems. Her humanity and beauty is overlooked for the sake of
research. This funny, sad, and intelligent play reminds us in vivid
detail of Donne’s words “Death be not proud.”
Recommended age 14+
|
September 29at 7:00 PM
The Adventures of Robin Hood
ShoWagon Theatre of Theatre Memphis |
Robin and Marian with the band of  Merry
Men defeat Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham as they recall how they
met. We all know that Robin was a fantastic shot….or was it Marian?
Recommended ages 5-12
*This performance is made possible through a
grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission
Tickets are $5 for all ages |
September 30 at 7:00 PM
The Big Bad
Wolf Tells All
ShoWagon Theatre of Theatre Memphis |
We all know that the Big Bad Wolf wa s
big and, well, bad! But was he? Join BB, the much maligned wolf as he stumbles
through the stories of Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, and The
Boy Who Cried Wolf.
Recommended ages 5-12
*This performance is made possible
through a grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission
Tickets are $5 for all ages |
November
4-5 and 10-12 at 7:30 PM and November 6 at 2:30 PM
Dixon
Center Auditorium
Tartuffe—by Moliere
Directed by Dr. Christine Williams |
In this classic French comedy, Tartuffe,
 Orgon, a wealthy family man, takes in a stranger by the name of Tartuffe to
stay in his home. Tartuffe appears to be an extremely pious and devout man of
religion, and Orgon regards him almost as a saint. Orgon offers Tartuffe his
best food and drink and places the needs of his guest above those of his wife
and children. All of Orgon's friends and family regard Tartuffe as a con
man who only pretends to be of the highest moral authority but who does not
practice what he preaches. Orgon finally learns that he has been betrayed by
his guest when he overhears Tartuffe trying to seduce his wife. However, when
he orders Tartuffe to leave his house, Tartuffe seeks revenge by trying to
seize all of Orgon's property and to have Orgon arrested. In the end, through
the intervention of the King, Tartuffe is arrested, and harmony is restored to
Orgon's household.
Recommended age 12+ |
February
16-20 at 7:30 PM and February 19 at 2:30 PM
Edna
Minor Conn Theatre (Vest 305)
Eleemosynary—by Lee Blessing
Directed
by Dr. Christine Williams |
Eleemosynary focuses
on the lives of three Wesbrook women: seventy-five-year-old Dorothea; her
middle-aged daughter, Artie; and Artie's sixteen-year-old daughter, Echo.
Dorothea, an admitted New Age eccentric, has complicated the lives of the two
other Wesbrook women by imposing her thwarted dreams on them, which has
alienated Artie not only from Dorothea but from Echo as well. As the play
begins, Echo is caring for Dorothea, who has just had a stroke. During the
course of the play, Echo tries to bring the three women together. Blessing
presents fragmented vignettes of the lives of the three women as they struggle
to define themselves both as individuals and as part of a family unit. In this
poignant and mature study of familial relationships, Blessing highlights the human
need for connection and forgiveness.
Recommended age 12+ |
April
14 and 19-21 at 7:30 PM and April 15 at 2:30 PM
Dixon
Center Auditorium
See
How They Run – by Philip King
Directed by Dan Buck |
So swift is the action, so involved the
situations, so rib tickling the plot in this London hit that at its finish
audiences are left as exhausted from laughter as though they had run a foot
race. Galloping in and out of the four doors of an English vicarage are an
American actor and actress (he is now stationed with the air force in England),
a cockney maid who has seen too many American movies, an old maid who
"touches alcohol for the first time in her life," four men in
clergyman suits presenting the problem of which is which, for disguised as one
is an escaped prisoner, and a sedate Bishop aghast at all these goings on and
the trumped up stories they tell him.
Recommended age 8+ |