2012 Spring/Summer Shows

 

The Duck Variations

Put two elderly men on a park bench, leave them alone long enough and the subject of ducks will come up … whether they know anything about them or not.  This play by David Mamet, written in 1972, explores the ways of ducks and life, making observations that are profoundly hilarious, and confirms the old adage that people who talk the most with seeming authority about something are the ones that usually know the least about it.

  • Author: David Mamet
  • Director: Steven C. Erickson
  • Audience: 10+
  • Cast List

Audition Information

  • Monday, March 26, 2012 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
  • Location: Dance Studio (Curtiss Hall 181)

Performance Information

  • Tuesday, May 15, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Wednesday, May 16, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Thursday, May 17, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Friday, May 18, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Location: The Studio Theatre (Black Box, Curtiss Hall 180)

Ticket Information

  • $10.00 - General Admission
  • $7.00 - Senior Citizens (ages 60+)
  • $7.00 - Students
  • For more information or to order tickets, please contact the Box Office at 989-964-4261

 

Strange Snow

In this Romantic Dramatic Comedy by Stephen Meltcalfe, it is 5 am. on the first day of the fishing season and Megs is determined to get his buddy up, but David has a terrible hang over that is not entirely from last night's drinking. In Strange Snow, David, once a popular high-school athlete with a promising future, is devastated by his battlefield injuries and by the death of his friend Bobby. After returning from the war, he takes a job as a truck driver and struggles with depression and alcoholism while living with his younger sister Martha, a lovely but shy high-school biology teacher who is as lonely as David. David's friend Megs, a likable redneck, found the war an outlet for his own violent emotions, although he too suffers guilt over Bobby's death. David dependently lives with his sister Martha, a high school teacher who is enjoying a budding romance with the delightful Megs. This budding romance leaves Megs and Martha to seriously consider the ramifications of their relationship.

  • Author: Stephen Metcalfe
  • Director: David Rzeszutek
  • Audience: 16+ (for occasional strong language)
  • Cast List

Audition Information

  • Thursday, April 12, 2012 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm (NOTE: CHANGE IN DATE and TIME)
  • Location: Dance Studio (Curtiss Hall 181)

Performance Information

  • Tuesday, June 12, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Wednesday, June 13, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Thursday, June 14, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Friday, June 15, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Location: The Studio Theatre (Black Box, Curtiss Hall 180)

Ticket Information

  • $10.00 - General Admission
  • $7.00 - Senior Citizens (ages 60+)
  • $7.00 - Students
  • For more information or to order tickets, please contact the Box Office at 989-964-4261

 

Absurd Person Singular

Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. “Last Christmas” we visit the “lower class” but very much up-and-coming Jane and Sidney Hopcrofts in their bright, immaculate, gadget filled kitchen, anxiously giving a holiday party for their bank manager, an architect neighbor, and their wives. “This Christmas” we shift to the kitchen of the architect and his wife, Geoffrey and Eva Jackson, in their neglected, untidy flat which is menaced by their huge, psychotic dog George. “Next Christmas” we encounter the bank manager and his wife, Ronald and Marion Brewster-Wright, in their large, sparse, old Victorian-style kitchen.  Running like a dark thread through the wild comedy of behind the scenes disasters at Christmas parties is the story of the social advance of the Hopcrofts to material prosperity and independence with the corresponding decline of the others. In the final stages of this hilarious farce, the tenacious Hopcrofts are well and truly on top, with the others, literally and unnervingly, find themselves dancing to their tune.

  • Author: Alan Ayckbourn
  • Director: Tommy Wedge
  • Audience: 13+
  • Cast List

Audition Information

  • Tuesday, May 1, 2012 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
  • Location: Dance Studio (Curtiss Hall 181)

Performance Information

  • Tuesday, July 10, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Thursday, July 12, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Friday, July 13, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Location: The Studio Theatre (Black Box, Curtiss Hall 180)

Ticket Information

  • $10.00 - General Admission
  • $7.00 - Senior Citizens (ages 60+)
  • $7.00 - Students
  • For more information or to order tickets, please contact the Box Office at 989-964-4261

 

Private Lives

Perpetually dueling lovers, Amanda and Elyot haven’t seen each other since their stormy marriage ended in divorce.  Five years later fate brings them back together and they realize they still have feeling for each other, even though they are on their honeymoons with other people! Noel Coward’s wit and comic genius set the stage for this savvy play about romance and the people we can’t live with- or without.

  • Author: Noel Coward
  • Director: Gretchen A. VanHoorelbeke
  • Audience: 12+
  • Cast List

Audition Information

  • Wednesday, May 30, 2012 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
  • Location: Dance Studio (Curtiss Hall 181)

Performance Information

  • Tuesday, August 7, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Wednesday, August 8, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Thursday, August 9, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 7:30 pm
  • Location: The Studio Theatre (Black Box, Curtiss Hall 180)

Ticket Information

  • $10.00 - General Admission
  • $7.00 - Senior Citizens (ages 60+)
  • $7.00 - Students
  • For more information or to order tickets, please contact the Box Office at 989-964-4261