"The Winter's Tale"

by William Shakespeare

April 15 - 19

Anne Belk Theatre

 
   
The 2008 - 2009 Theatre Season
 
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The Wager
by Mark Medoff
 

 Lab Theater
October 8 – 11 at 8 pm

October 12 at 2 pm

Tickets: Students, Seniors - $5.00, Faculty/Staff $8.00,

General Admission $10.00

             

Leeds, a brainy, tart-tongued graduate student, has bet his "super-jock" roommate, Ward (a Phys Ed major), that Ward can seduce Honor, the wife of a young professor (Ron). But Leeds has also wagered that if Ward is successful, Ron will make an attempt on his life within 48 hours.  The situation grows progressively more complex, and the result is not tragedy but pure, bubbling comedy from the author of the highly acclaimed Children of a Lesser God and When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? (Performance may contain adult themes and language)

 
 
Lysistrata
By Aristophanes

Anne R. Belk Theater

October 29 – November 1 at 8 pm;

November 2 at 2 pm

Tickets: Students, Seniors - $6.00, Faculty/Staff $12.00,

General Admission $14.00 

 
Athens and Sparta have been at war for years with no end in sight. Desperate times demand a desperate remedy, and so the women of Athens, led by Lysistrata and supported by female delegates from the other states of Hellas, agree to refuse all sexual favors until the men have come agree to peace.  Aristophanes' classic comedy comes to life in this new and energetic adaptation of the traditional battle of the sexes.
 
One-Act Play Festival

Lab Theater

December 3 - 6 at 8pm

December 7 at 2pm

Tickets: Students, Seniors - $5.00, Faculty/Staff $8.00, General Admission $10.00

 
A bare-bones collection of one-act plays featuring student directors, designers, and performers.
 

Boston Marriage

By David Mamet
 

Lab Theater

February 25 – 28 at 8 pm;

March 1 at 2 pm 

Tickets: Students, Seniors - $5.00, Faculty/Staff $8.00,

General Admission $10.00 

 

Set in a Victorian drawing room, Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming “women of fashion” who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society.  While Anna has become the mistress of a wealthy man and Claire remains infatuated with a respectable young lady, the two women exchange barbs and taunt Anna’s hapless parlor maid until Claire’s young inamorata suddenly appears.  The result sets off a crisis of wits that puts both the women’s futures at risk.

 

The Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare
 

Anne R. Belk Theater

April 15 - 18 at 8pm

April 19 at 2pm

Tickets: Students, Seniors - $6.00, Faculty/Staff $12.00,

General Admission $14.00 

 

Leontes' unjustified rage causes him to lose his wife, his son and his baby daughter. The destructive forces of jealousy and envy are pitted against the power of love and forgiveness in one of Shakespeare’s final plays.  Complemented by festive comedy and some of Shakespeare's most searing poetry, we conclude our season with an exploration of the healing, redemptive magic of time in this cautionary tale of one family's journey to reconciliation.  

 

 

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