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Looking for an easy-to-print copy of our Season Calendar? Recently updated for 2008-09
• Audition for our Fall, 2008 productions (including Laramie Project and Winter Shorts) September 6, 2008
• Winter Shorts (Fall series) October 10-19, 2008
• Laramie Project - November 14-23, 2008
• Audition for Spring Winter Shorts - December 6, 2008
• Audition for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - January 24, 2009
• Winter Shorts (Spring series) February 20-March 1, 2009
• Famous For Fifteen Minutes Playright Festival Readings - March 21, 2009
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - April 17-26, 2009
• UAF Film Club showings - May 2, 2009
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Audition - September 2, 2008

Winter Shorts LogoWinter Shorts - October 10-19, 2008 Directed by Andrew Cassell and Paula Daabach
Winter Shorts, produced by the UAF Student Drama Association, are student-directed one-acts. Come see shows produced by the Theatre leaders of tomorrow!

“Acting without words” by Samuel Beckett is about a lonely man trapped in the desert. He is trying to leave but is being thrown back on stage every time he tries to. He reflects and decides to do nothing about it. From nowhere things start to fly in and tires to attract his attention. He uses the different tools that are provided to him but without luck; when he realizes how they can help him to get out of his misery they disappear or change in a way that is useless for him. At the end, all of his tools have disappeared and he is sitting lonely on stage again. The only thing he has left is his hands.
The play is an existential piece and therefore raises many questions. Is life worth living? What can I do to make it better? Is death a good way to solve problems? Is there no way out? Are you really lonely when you are alone?
Paula Daabach (director for Winter Shorts fall 2008)

"The Author's Voice" by David Greenberg
Todd is an up an coming writer who is the toast of the town, Portia is a hot shot editor who plans to bed Todd, Gene is the hideous gnome that lives in the wall of Todd's apart and actually writes the books.
This 20 minute play is a comic exploration of fame, shame, and codependant relationships.
Set in New York the play tells the story of Todd, a writer at the start of his career. His editor is very excited about his prospects in the publishing world and in her personal life. Todd, meanwhile, has grown tired of dating beautiful women. He wants to get serious about his work. The only problem is that he doesn't actually do the work. Gene, the gnome that lives in the wall, is the real writer. Gene realizes that he can never leave the house, since he is a hideous gnome. He lives vicariously through Todd, watching everything through the wall. Now Todd is giving up on the girl Gene wants most of all. And Gene is getting curious about the chances of the world actually accepting him as a hideous gnome.
This play has a rich production history with actors like Kevin Bacon and David Hyde Pierce playing Todd, Jennifer Aniston playing Portia, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman playing the gnome.
Andrew Cassell (director for Winter Shorts fall 2008)

Laramie Project book cover

Laramie Project - November 14-23, 2008 Directed by Carrie Baker
In October 1998 a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, and others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of their reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

Description by Dramatists Play Service
Two Gentelmen of Verona

From "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
directed by Carrie Baker


“One of the ten best plays of the year. A pioneering work of theatrical reportage and a powerful stage event.” —Time Magazine.
“Astonishing. Not since Angels in America has a play attempted so much: nothing less than an examination of the American psyche at the end of the millennium.” —A.P.
“There emerges a mosaic as moving and important as any you will see on the walls of the churches of the world…nothing short of stunning…you will be held in rapt attention.” —New York Magazine.

Laramie Project
All performances live in the Lee H. Salisbury Theatre on the UAF campus

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