Winter Shorts November 13 - 22, 2009
For tickets or production information:• Fall Winter Shorts November 13-22, 2009
• Auditions January 30, 2010
• Famous for Fifteen minutes playwright workshop festival. Submissions due January 30, 2010 presentation February 27, 2010
• Spring Winter Shorts March 19-28, 2010
• Vinegar Tom April 23-May 2, 2010
• Film Club Showing May 8, 2010
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Winter Shorts November 13 - 22, 2009
Student Directed (and student-produced) one-acts. This set features Zoo Story by Edward Albee and an adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream.
A Zoo Story explores themes of isolation, loneliness, social disparity and dehumanization in a commercial world.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a nightmare version of the classic Shakespearean romantic comedy. While retaining the integrity of the language, plot, circumstances, and characters of the original, this shortened version explores the darker and more visceral side of human nature, testing the boundaries between love and hate, supernatural and natural, lust and revulsion, anger and passion, mortal and immortal. When Hermia's father threatens to have her killed unless she marries Demetrius, she and her beloved Lysander plan to elope. Her best friend Helena (who is desperately in love with Demetrius) tells him of their plans. He follows them into the forest, to claim his bride and take vengeance on her lover, with Helena following at his heels. This 'escape' into a nighttime forest inhabited by a-moral if not malicious primal fey folk foregrounds the psychological turmoil of the four lovers as they enter their own subconscious, face the upheaval of every emotional certainty and are driven to the bounds of hope and despair, love and hate, longing and rejection, and joy and fear. Meanwhile the rulers of the realms are engaged in a private battle of wills, one which is intensely sexual, fiercely jealous, tender and abusive at once, where the stability of their world hangs in the balance: Hypolita, Queen of the Amazons is to wed the Duke Theseus in chains while Oberon and Titania vie for control over the seasons, themselves, and a young child...
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Famous for Fifteen minutes playwright workshop Playwrights of all ages are encouraged to submit a short work to Famous for Fifteen – called from here on out FFF. FFF is an evening of readers theatre meaning the plays will be read aloud for an audience but not fully performed or produced. Plays should be no longer than 15 minutes. Once a playwright has submitted his or her work, a panel of reviewers (students and faculty) will select 5-8 plays which will begin a two week long workshop process where the playwright meets with the director and the actors to revise the original script. New faculty member Stephan Golux will consult during the workshop process. By the end of the two weeks the plays will have been rewritten and rehearsed for presentation in the Lee Salisbury Theatre for one night only on February 27th.
Submissions are due the first weekend after school starts in the Spring. That date is January 30th. So now would be the time to start writing that play you've always been thinking about and submit it to FFF. Submitted plays will be read aloud by the selection committee and chosen by February 1st. The workshop process will then begin.
Plays can be turned it at any time before January 30th. Please drop them off at the Theatre UAF office in the Great Hall. All submission packets should contain 5 copies of the play, contact information from the playwright including email and phone number, as well as a page with character list and brief description.
Thank you for your interest in 2010's Famous For Fifteen!
Winter Shorts Spring edition March 19-28, 2010
Student Directed (and student-produced) one-acts. Titles to be announce late December, 2009
Vinegar Tom - a play with song by Caryl Churchill directed by new Theatre UAF faculty member Stephan Golux April 23-May 2, 2010
Synopsis (taken from the script):
A dark account of how fear and hate can lead to the death of innocent people, Vinegar Tom follows four women in a journey from naive innocence to their untimely executions. Set in the 17th-century during the Salem witch-hunts, the play offers a disturbing glimpse into this prejudiced society. Contemporary music, voice, rhythm, dance and story combine to offer a rare glimpse of the horror and oppressions of our past, while shedding light on attitudes which have carried through to today.
Film Club showing - premieres for free in the Lee H. Salisbury Theatre - one night only!
Saturday, May 8, beginning at 7pm
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