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2011

Tiger at the Gates

"Tiger at the Gates," a prologue to Homer's "Iliad" from the perspective of the Trojans, was written in France in 1935, four years before the Nazi invasion of France, and the start of the explosive and devastating war that would claim millions of lives an ...

SeasonFall 2011
TypeExperimental Production

The play opens with the picture perfect image of Bette and Boo being joined in holy matrimony. What at first seems like a promising marriage soon deteriorates into three decades of alcoholism, nervous breakdowns, death, divorce, and gravy, lots and lots o ...

SeasonFall 2011
TypeExperimental Production

Sweeney Todd Popular

A Note from the Director Sweeney Todd is timeless. Take it from the man himself when he sings: "This history of the world, my sweet, is who gets eaten and who gets to eat." And in this story everyone has a voracious appetite - for love, for sex, for m ...

SeasonFall 2011
TypeMainstage Production

For the first time in over 25 years, an original, student-written comedy will be the Dramat's Commencement Musical. Bunkerville follows the story of a hapless newspaper editor who lives in an underground city in the aftermath of nuclear conflict. By a few ...

SeasonSpring 2011
TypeCommencement Musical

Harvey Popular

When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a 6 and a half foot rabbit, to guests a society party, his sister Veta has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium ...

AuthorMary Chase
SeasonSpring 2011
TypeFreshman Show

"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a dream play for any director. Its combination of relentlessly clever dark humor with characters whose stories have assumed mythological proportions renders it both accessible and entertaining, while also having real em ...

SeasonSpring 2011
TypeMainstage Production

Utility Monster Popular

Utility Monster opens with 15-year-old Claude giving a PowerPoint presentation about how five dollars can save an African child's life. And about Led Zeppelin. But mostly about the Africans. Soon he meets Sadie, who brings him home to her wealthy family: ...

SeasonSpring 2011
TypeExperimental Production
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