ESU's Department of Theatre

2009-2010 Season

AUDIENCES: General admission, $10; senior citizens, faculty and staff, $8; students & children, $5.

For information or ticket reservations, please call 570-422-3483.

STUDENT INVOLVEMENT IN PRODUCTIONS:  Roles are cast by audition. Backstage positions are by arrangement with design faculty and directors. Involvement in all productions is open to all ESU Students.  No prior experience required.  We train.  For audition and other production information refer to the bulletin board in the Fine and Performing Arts lobby or contact theatre faculty. 

THEATRE DEPARTMENT PRODUCTION: FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES:

We also are currently booking SPECIAL SCHOOL PERFORMANCES for 10:00 AM shows October 13-16. Please contact rita.plotnicki@po-box.esu.edu regarding school bookings only.

Location: Fine and Performing Arts Building up the hill off Normal Street - Smith-McFarland Theatre

Description: Dandelion is a delightfully imaginative and humorous revue of songs and scenes based on the life cycle. Each of its ten scenes is a complete dramatic entity on its own. The Paper Bag Players prize-winning musical "tells the history of the world in little more than one hour, and does so amusingly and imaginative and —most amazingly of all —truthfully." — London Sunday Telegraph. The Paper Bag Players have earned an OBIE (the only childrens' theater to be so honored), a New York State Artists Award, the American Theater Association Award, the Alliance for Theater and Education Award for "sustained and exceptional achievement in the field of theater for young audiences."

WINTER THEATRE DEPARTMENT PRODUCTION - FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY:

Polaroid Stories
by Naomi Iizuka
Directed by Stephanie Daventry French
Scenic and Costume design by Yoshinori Tanokura

Description: Polaroid Stories takes place on the outermost edge of a city, a no-man's land where runaways seek camaraderie, refuge and escape. Serpentine routes from the street to the heart characterize the interactions in this spellbinding tale of young people pushed to society's fringe. Inspired in part by Ovid's Metamorphoses, Polaroid Stories conveys a whirlwind of psychic disturbance, confusion and longing. Like their mythic counterparts, these modem-day mortals are gripped by the most basic needs, and engulfed by desires that burn and consume.

Because of adult language and situations, this production is recommended for mature high school students and adults.

STUDENT PRODUCTION:

Stage II One Act Plays
February 9-13, 2010, 8:00 PM
February 14, 20l0, 2:00 PM

Location: Fine and Performing Arts Building up the hill off Normal Street - Dale Snow Theatre

Plays TBA - student directors may submit plays early Fall semester, check the board in the fine arts lobby for more information

Designers may apply to design lighting, costumes, scenery or sound. Auditions for all roles are open to all students.

THEATRE DEPARTMENT SPRING PRODUCTION - FOR ALL AUDIENCES:

As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Margaret Joyce Ball
Scenic and Costume design by Yoshinori Tanokura
April 20-24, 2010, 8:00 PM
April 25, 2010, 2:00 PM

Location: Fine and Performing Arts Center up the hill off Normal Street - Smith McFarland Theatre

Description: What is a young noblewoman to do when she and her father are banished from their home on pain of death? Rosalind escapes to the forest of Arden: fearful of discovery , she disguises herself as a boy only to fall madly in love with a handsome, lovesick gentleman named Orlando. Shakespeare's romantic comedy was ahead of its time - it features mischievous encounters, witty repartee, cross dressing, wonderful songs, dances and wrestling!