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Staged Reading Series |
To expand the range of theatre we are exposed to in the Department by staging a contemporary works series.
THE READING SERIES WILL CONTINUE in FALL 2007
Fall 2006 Reading Series Season!
Stuck by Jessica Goldberg
September 20th 2006 7pm Lab Theatre
directed by Amanda Coughlin
Set in backwater Middletown, USA—STUCK
tells the tale of two twenty-three-year olds, Lula and Margaritah, best friends
since they were five years old. They work at a video store during the day and
hang out in the car at night minding Margaritah's baby and wishing they could
get out of Middletown. Stifled by their environment, the fulfillment the girls
once found in each other is waning. Margaritah falls in love with a right-wing
Argentine businessman whose political agenda is a mystery to her. Lula hits the
bars and ends up in bed with the father of one of her old school chums. The
girls' love affairs end in despair, and each girl is inspired to change no
matter the consequences. The play's inevitable horrific climax comes because
these young women cannot imagine how to attain a reality beyond the one in which
they already live.
Third by
Wendy Wasserstein
October 10th 2006 4pm Lab Theatre
directed by Katerina Paramana
Third is set in a blue state college that is amusingly established as a
nurturing ground for radical thought and progressive activism. It is the
academic year 2002 – 2003 at the time the Bush administration is embarking on
its mission to invade and occupy Iraq, and perceived conservatism is showing up
in the strangest places.
Well by
Lisa Kron
***CANCELLED ***
Reckless
by Craig Lucas
November 21st 2006
4pm Mulitz Gudelsky
directed by Elizabeth
Broder-Oldrich
At home on Christmas Eve, Rachel's life is changed forever. In a touching
moment she must flee for her life, which she does by scrambling out the kitchen
window and into the snowy night. She meets and joins up with Lloyd Bophtelophti,
a true "original" who has changed his name to avoid alimony payments and who now
lives with a paraplegic named Pootie (who also pretends to be deaf in order to
get double disability). Rachel then wins $100,000 on a TV game show and begins a
series of picaresque escapades involving numerous psychiatrists and, eventually,
an ill-fated reunion with her husband. In the end Rachel becomes a therapist
herself, treating her own child (who fails to recognize her), and is led more
and more to ponder whether the modern world might not be a vast conspiracy
designed to systematically undermine her own increasingly shaky sanity.
AWAY
by Sam
McMenamin and Tim Shneier
December 6th, 2006 4:30pm Rehearsal Rm 1
directed by Sam McMenamin and Kate Wolfe
A NEW MUSICAL about going off to college!
for more details, contact Genna Davidson.
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