College
Theater
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Bread &
Puppet photo: Ronald T. Simon
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Thursday–Friday,
September 22–23
Bread and Puppet Theater:
The Upside/Down Circus
The world-famous theater company, under the direction of Peter
Schumann, creates a dazzling pageant of puppets large and small
in a ringless circus that leaves no social issue outside the
tent and no political animal untamed. Lafayette theater students
join the Bread and Puppet performers to create a spectacle of
music, imagination, and biodegradable effects. Suitable for
thinking audiences of all ages.
Information
Session: Thursday, September 8, 7:00 p.m.
Everyone is welcome to perform with Bread and Puppet, and must
attend a rehearsal in the evening on Wednesday, September 21.
Learn more at this information session. If you cannot attend,
call Director of Theater Michael O’Neill, (610) 330-5326
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Wednesday–Saturday,
November 2–5
The Man Who...
by Peter Brook and Marie-Helene Estienne
Roethke Humanities Festival event
Based on Oliver Sacks’ perennial bestseller, The Man
Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this “theatrical research”
probes the connections between neurological dysfunction and theater’s
subversion of language. Brook, whose productions of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Marat/Sade, and The Mahabharata
are among the great landmarks of modern theater, has created a
highly intelligent, sometimes humorous, always exciting voyage
to what he calls “the great new subject of universal interest—the
human brain.” Directed by Michael
O'Neill.
Brown Bag Preview: Monday, October 31, 12:10 p.m.
 Lunch
available for $3.00 or bring your own
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Boy
Gets Girl |
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oh
my... |
Monday–Friday,
November 14–18
Fringe XIII
Black Box
Enjoy the annual celebration of the new, the old, the shocking,
and the inane as Lafayette students, staff, and alumni, present
plays, original work, songs, poetry, video, and performance pieces.
This year’s festival features a lunchtime Favorite Book Reading
in conjunction with the Roethke Humanities Festival, and an evening
of ten-minute plays directed by Lafayette students, as Fringe continues
its quest to redefine the boundaries of theatrical performance.
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Wednesday–Saturday,
March 1–4
Slabtown District Convention
by Samuel Hay, inspired by On Their Way to the Slabtown
District Convention by Nannie Helen Burroughs
A funny, tuneful look at campaign politics within the Women's
Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention.
Hay's treatment of the 1908 play by Burroughs, one of the founders
of the Women's Auxiliary, includes live music by Tom DiGiovanni.
Directed by Samuel Hay.
Brown
Bag Preview: Monday, February 27, 12:10 p.m.
Lunch
available for $3.00 or bring your own
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You
Can't Take It With You |
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The
Club |
Wednesday–Saturday,
April 19–22
The Compleat Works of
Willm Shkspre (abridged)
Black Box
Roethke Humanities Festival event
In just under two hours’ traffic upon the stage, three actors
wearing plenty of bad wigs pay Shakespeare’s 37 plays and
150 sonnets the sort of wild and wacky homage that has crowned the
Bard of Avon the unlikely king of sketch comedy in London’s
West End and around the world. All of Shakespeare is here. And it
all fits! Directed by Tyler
Cohn '06.
Brown Bag Preview: Monday, April 17, 12:10 p.m.
Lunch
available for $3.00 or bring your own
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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.
College
Theater alumni: click here
for a printable order form; get tickets a special discounted
price!
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Little
Shop of Horrors |
Michael
O'Neill, Ph.D.
Director of Theater
(610) 330-5326
Fax 610-330-5642
oneillm@lafayette.edu
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Show
your support by becoming a
2005–2006 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.
To to
contribute with your Visa or Mastercard or for more information,
please call
(610) 330-5010, or e-mail williamscenter@lafayette.edu
for an enrollment form or more information. You may also complete and
mail this printable
enrollment form (in PDF format). |
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Far
Away |
The
Cherry Orchard |
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The
Two Gentlemen of Verona |
Little
Shop of Horrors |
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