Department of Theatre Arts

Scenes and Revelations
by Elan Garonzik
September 27-30, 2007

Our entry in this year’s Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival is a thought provoking new work. Scenes and Revelations is set in the late 1800’s at the height of America’s westward movement. It is an engrossing character study of four sisters growing up in a Mennonite farm community in a small town in Pennsylvania. The sisters dream dreams and plot their futures as their lives are intertwined with the past and the present. The main characters are caught between their duty to remain together and their desire to marry. The sisters struggle with many choices as their lives are pulled apart.

$12 Adult / $10 Sr. Citizen, Military, Non-CU Student
Free to CU Students with CUID

W;t
by Margaret Edson
November 15-19, 2007

Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. At the start of Wit, Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliantly difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational, deeply witty. But during the course of her illness—and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and for the audience.

$12 Adult / $10 Sr. Citizen, Military, Non-CU Student
Free to CU Students with CUID

Warning: This production contains material that certain people may find objectionable.

I Hate Hamlet
by Paul Rudnik
February 21-24, 2008

A young and successful TV Actor relocates to New York City, where he retains a wonderful gothic apartment. With his TV career in limbo, he is offered the chance to play Hamlet on-stage. The problem is, he hates Hamlet and the problem gets worse with the entrance of the ghost of John Barrymore whose portrayal of Hamlet was unsurpassed. Barrymore’s ghost arrives drunk and in full costume to the apartment that was once his. The contrast between the two actors leads to a wildly funny duel over women, art, success, duty, and, yes, the apartment.

$12 Adult
$10 Sr. Citizen, Military, Non-CU Student
Free to CU Students with CUID 

Spring Musical: Nine
April 17-20, 2008

Book by Arthur Kopit, Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston
Music by Mary Rodgers, Lyrics by Marshall Barer

Nine revolves around one central character, Guido Contini, a film director in the Fellini mold. He is contracted to write and direct a film, but is unable to come up with a suitable plot. After recent box office failures, he finds himself drifting towards a nervous breakdown. Guido finds himself examining his past flawed relationships with the many women who have come through his life and the struggle to act his mature age of 40—as opposed to nine.

$18 Adult / $12 Sr. Citizen, Military, Non-CU Student
Free to CU Students with CUID 

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