Theatre Arts Program2009 - 2010 Season
spring 2010
Museum
Directed By: Rosemary Malague
Arthur Ross Gallery
March 26 8pm
March 27 2pm
March 27 7:30pm
March 28 2pm
Arthur Ross Gallery, Fisher Fine Arts Library
Museum, a comic play by Tina Howe, is set in the contemporary gallery of an art museum on the final day of a group show. The real “show,” however, is the parade of forty visitors, as they interact with one another and react wildly to all they see. Museum looks at people looking at art— to hilarious and moving effect. The cast of twenty-seven actors features students, faculty, staff, and other members of the Penn community.
Post-Performance Special Events for Saturday, March 27
2:00 p.m. – “Talk to the Artists”
After the matinee, stay, walk through the gallery, and talk with the artists who created the exhibits on display.
7:30 p.m. – “Looking at Looking at Art” – Post-Performance Panel Discussion and Reception
Playwright Tina Howe will participate in a panel discussion moderated by Dr. James Schlatter after the evening performance. A Q&A period and reception will follow. Panelists include:
Colette Copeland, Critical Writing Program, Program in Visual Studies
Marcia Ferguson, Theatre Arts Program
Aaron Levy, English, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Slought Foundation
Rose Malague, Director of Theatre Arts Program
Martina Plag, Creative Director of Stadium - Praxis
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Art History, Director of Program in Visual Studies
The Country (A Senior Honor Thesis in Directing)
Bruce Montgomery Theatre
February 25-27, 2010
THE COUNTRY by Martin Crimp. Richard and Corinne move to the country for a fresh start. Accustomed to a chaotic urban lifestyle, Corinne hopes that the solitude and simplicity of country life will be the answer to their marital troubles. Instead, she finds herself trapped in an urban wasteland where her husband's lies and deceit are revealed. Who is the mysterious girl lying unconscious on their couch and why did Richard bring her home? Martin Crimp's new play is a gripping, tense account of the dark side of country life and a wife's obsession with the truth.
THE COUNTRY will run from February 25-27, 2010, in the Bruce Montgomery Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
Senior Thesis Production: The Country
Bruce Montgomery Theatre
A Senior Honors Thesis in Directing
Directed by Elisabeth Humphrey
February 25-27, 2010
THE COUNTRY by Martin Crimp. Richard and Corinne move to the country for a fresh start. Accustomed to a chaotic urban lifestyle, Corinne hopes that the solitude and simplicity of country life will be the answer to their marital troubles. Instead, she finds herself trapped in an urban wasteland where her husband's lies and deceit are revealed. Who is the mysterious girl lying unconscious on their couch and why did Richard bring her home? Martin Crimp's new play is a gripping, tense account of the dark side of country life and a wife's obsession with the truth.
THE COUNTRY will run from February 25-27, 2010, in the Bruce Montgomery Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
fall 2009
Our Town
Directed By: James Schlatter
Bruce Montgomery Theatre
November 18 at 2pm
November 20 at 2pm
November 21 at 2pm and 8pm
On November 18th through the 21st at 8:00 p.m. in the Montgomery Theatre in the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, the Theatre Arts Program presents Thornton Wilder’s classic play, Our Town, one of the great works of the American theatre. Our Town celebrates the love, strength of character, and simple generosity that bind together the citizens of a small New England town and, by implication, of America. As relevant today as it was when first performed in 1938 during a similar time of economic and social crisis in America, Our Town does more than just idealize a long-lost innocent time in our country’s past. The play asks audiences: What is it that remains alive in the American character that, despite the passing of the decades, enables us to endure as a country? Please join the dedicated student cast of Our Town as they bring to vivid theatrical life the town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire at the start of the 20th Century.
OUR TOWN
By Thornton Wilder
THEATRE ARTS PROGRAM FALL PRODUCTION
DIRECTOR: Dr. James F. Schlatter
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR/STAGE MANAGER: Elisabeth Humphrey
LIGHTING DESIGNER: John Campbell (Senior Thesis Candidate in Design)
SCENIC DESIGNER: Marissa Krupen
SOUND DESIGNER: Anthony Baruffi
COSTUME DESIGNER: Kristen Sophie Snyder
ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNER: Sarah Boice
LIGHTING DESIGN ADVISOR: Peter Whinnery
PRODUCTION MANAGER & TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Eric Baratta
CAST LIST:
Max Black………………………………..Doc Gibbs
Emma Margolin…………………………Mrs. Gibbs
Michael Jorizzo…………………………George Gibbs
DeAnna Supplee……………………….Rebecca Gibbs
Andrew Steinmetz…………………… Mr. Webb
Nicole Davis…………………………….Mrs. Webb
Jenny Hardy…………………………….Emily Webb
Ali-Reza Mirsajadi……………………...Simon Stimson/
Wally Webb
Mingo Reynolds………………………...Mrs. Soames
Thomas Flint…………………………….Constable Warren/
Joe Stoddard
Alex Lustik………………………………Howie Newsome/
Sam Craig
Sue Gavin-Leone……………………….Professor Willard
Adam Hamilton…………………………Joe/Si Crowell
The role of the Stage Manager will be played by the
Director and the members of the company.