College Theater

2003–2004 Season
Buy the four-event series package for $20.00 and save $4.00 (available through September 27).
Single tickets for all performances $6.00

Wednesday–Saturday, September 24–27
The American Dream
by Edward Albee
Black Box
A startling comic send-up of middle-class mores and murder gives birth to our most frightening nightmares about marriage, children, good looks, and the elderly. This seminal satire by the author of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? seems, over the years, to have assumed the reluctant voice of grotesque prophecy. Directed by Chris Hutchison ’91
She Stoops to Conquer, spring 2002

Wednesday–Thursday,October 15–16
The Swamp Dwellers
by Wole Soyinka
Black Box
The spiritual and the social collide in this tale of perilous dependence on the favor of the gods, in which a rural Nigerian son returns from the city to find his inheritance washed away. This readers’ theater presentation will showcase an early work by Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, before his October visit to Lafayette. Directed by Samuel Hay
October 29–November 1
Little Shop of Horrors
 by Howard Ashman; music by Alan Menken
Main Stage
One of the longest-running off-Broadway shows of all time, this tuneful rock ‘n’ roll spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies features a nerdy floral assistant, a Donna Reed wannabe, a sadistic dentist, a doo-wop chorus, and an exotic plant with a craving for fresh blood. The perfect Halloween musical treat! Directed by Michael O’Neill
November 18–22
Anniversary Fringe
Black Box
Students, faculty, and alumni present original plays, performance art, music, and poetry in Lafayette’s 11th annual celebration of art-with-an-edge. All Fringe events are free.
"Drip Music" from Fringe Festival 2001
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Wednesday–Saturday, March 5–8
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov, translated by David Mamet
Main Stage
Theater’s most famous piece of real estate, and the ineffectual aristocratic Russian family unable to close the deal on it, make up the heartbreaking and hilarious center of this modern comic masterpiece. David Mamet’s sparse, idiomatic translation captures the mood of an era’s passing and reaffirms Chekhov’s position at the juncture between naturalism and the great poetic theater he anticipated. The production features an original musical score by Tom DiGiovanni ’96. Directed by Michael O’Neill
Wednesday–Saturday, April 21–24
Far Away
by Caryl Churchill
Black Box
Childhood innocence, mad hatters, and Armageddon are the apparent subjects of this surreal dystopian theater piece that The Observer praised as “tableau theater in which installation art is given motion and voice.” Presented in conjunction with Performance Art: the Eighth Biennial Roethke Humanities Festival. Directed by Suzanne Westfall

Students may participate in the theater program through the production season (auditions are open to all students) and by taking courses through the English department. The College offers a minor in theater.


Michael O'Neill, Ph.D.
Director of Theater
(610) 330-5326
Fax 610-330-5642
oneillm@lafayette.edu

 
Show your support by becoming a 2003–2004 Lafayette College Theater Angel! An “angel” in the theater traditionally is a person who financially backs a production. Funds contributed by Lafayette College Theater Angels will be used exclusively to innovate and invigorate the theater education of our students and, by extension, our audiences. Angels’ contributions will allow us to hire guest artists, expand our curriculum, and provide outreach and master classes that reinforce our mission as theater educators.

Please call (610) 330-5010 or e-mail williamscenter@lafayette.edu for a pledge card or more information. You may also complete and mail this printable enrollment form (in PDF format).



last updated June 19, 2003

 

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