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December 2004 - Volume Iv, Number 1, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume IV Number 1 includes an article welcoming new faculty Allison Cameron, and a piece on the Liz Marfia and Phil Ash wedding on October 10, 2004, attending by 26 Theatre Arts alumni.

November / December Poster, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 2004-2005 Season

Written by Chris Gyngell

Directed by Thomas Power and William Steele

Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"

Postcard included, dimensions 5.5" x 8.5"

November / December Program, University Of Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2004-2005 Season

Written by Chris Gyngell

Directed by Thomas Power and William Steele

This production was entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) XXXVII.

The Ugly Duckling +2, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2004-2005 Season

No abstract provided.

Six Characters In Search Of An Author Flyer [2004], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 2004-2005 Season

By Luigi Pirandello

Directed by Richard Reade

Dimensions: 8.5" x 11"

Postcard included, dimensions 5.5" x 8.5"

Six Characters In Search Of An Author Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2004-2005 Season

Written by Luigi Pirandello

Directed by Richard Reade

This production was entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) XXXIIV.

Violet, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2004-2005 Season

Set in 1964 in the Deep South during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, Violet follows the growth and enlightenment of a bitter young disfigured woman. In hopes that a TV evangelist can cure her, she embarks on a journey by bus from her sleepy North Carolina town to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Along the way, she meets a young black soldier who teaches her about beauty, love, courage and what it means to be an outsider.

https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/1787/violet

The Laramie Project Poster, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 2004-2005 Season

By Moises Kaufman

Directed by Wil Kilroy

Dimensions: 8.5" x 11"

Also included: 5.5" x 8.5" postcard

Theatre Department Open House Flyer, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 2004-2005 Season

Dimensions: 8" x 13"

The Laramie Project Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2004-2005 Season

Written by Moises Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theater Project

Directed by Wil Kilroy

This production was a Participating entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KC/ACTF).

Black Comedy, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2004 Summer Theatre

Struggling sculptor Brindsley Miller and his fiance, Carol, are having a party with the aim of impressing Carol's bombastic father, Colonel Melkett, and millionaire Georg Bamberger. They hope the two men might purchase some of Brindsley's sculptures. Without permission, they have borrowed the furniture and effects of their fussy neighbor, Harold, to make their own flat more presentable. Just before the guests arrive, the main fuse blows, plunging the flat into darkness. What follows is a frantic romp with unexpected visitors, mistaken identities, and surprises lurking in every dark corner! Only we, the audience, can see the action ...

Forever Plaid, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2004 Summer Theatre

High school pals Sparky, Jinx, Smudge, and Francis -- the “Plaids” -- are talented “guy group” -- just four nice young men who love singing harmony. They practice in the basement of Smudge’s family’s plumbing supply company, play proms and department stores, and dream about success. When the Plaids are killed in a car accident on the way to their first big gig -- at the Airport Hilton Cocktail Bar, on February 9, 1964 -- the young men linger in limbo, as unresolved as their final chord, until the conjunction of various “astro-technical” phenomena allows them to return to Earth, perform their final ...

Anton In Show Business, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2004 Summer Theatre

This madcap comedy follows three actresses across the footlights, down the rabbit hole, and into a strangely familiar Wonderland that looks a lot like American theatre – the resemblance is uncanny! As these women pursue their dream of performing Chekhov in Texas, they’re whisked through a maelstrom of “good ideas” that offer unique solutions to the Three Sisters’ need to have life’s deeper purpose revealed. In the tradition of great backstage comedies, Anton in Show Business conveys the joys, pains, and absurdities of “putting on a play” at the turn of the century.

https://www.samuelfrench.com/p/2932 ...

June 2004 - Volume Iii, Number 2, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume III Number 2 includes a welcome to new faculty Chris Mitchell and a "Where Are They Now?" section.

The Music Man, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2003-2004 Season

When Harold Hill, a traveling con man, arrives in River City, he convinces the locals to start a band by purchasing the uniforms and instruments from him. His intention is to flee as soon as he receives the money. Librarian Marian Paroo suspects Harold is a fraud, but holds her tongue since her moody brother, Winthrop, is excited about the band. As Harold begins to develop feelings for Marian, he faces a difficult decision about skipping town.

Medea, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2003-2004 Season

Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the "barbarian" kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason.

Company Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2003-2004 Season

Music/Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by George Furth

Directed by Wil Kilroy

Musical Direction by Ed Reichert

Choreography by Raymond Marc Dumont

This production was a Participating entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KC/ACTF).

Dance Usm! Program [2004], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2003-2004 Season

Directed by Maria Tzianabos

Dance Concert 2004: Broadway Babies, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2003-2004 Season

No abstract provided.

End Of The World, Missouri Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2003-2004 Season

by Chris Gyngell

Director Lindsey Higgins

The Glass Menagerie Program [2004], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2003-2004 Season

by Tennessee Williams

A staged reading directed by William Steele & Thomas Power

A View From The Bridge, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2003-2004 Season

A View from the Bridge tells the story of Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman, whose incestuous love for his niece drives him to his own destruction. Playwright Arthur Miller first heard the story while doing research in Red Hook, Brooklyn for a totally different project. https://www.shmoop.com/view-from-the-bridge/

The Politics Of Sleepwalking: American Lady Macbeths, Katherine Rowe

Katherine Rowe

No abstract provided.

"Oskar Blumenthal And The Lessing Theater In Berlin, 1888-1904", William Grange Prof. Dr.

Faculty Publications and Creative Activity, School of Theatre and Film

Oskar Blumenthal (1852-1917) was Berlin’s most feared theatre critic in the early years of the new German Reich. He had the audacity of referring to Goethe as “an egghead” who had no understanding of what made plays effective for audiences, and in other critiques he ridiculed Kleist, Hebbel, and other “important” playwrights—prompting an adversary publicly to call him a “one-man lynch mob.” In the 1880s Blumenthal himself began writing plays, and he was so successful that many self-appointed cultural guardians accused him of damaging the German theatre beyond repair. His became the most frequently performed plays on any ...

Oskar Blumenthal And The Lessing Theater In Berlin, 1888-1904, William Grange

William Grange

OSKAR BLUMENTHAL (1852-1917) was Berlin’s most feared theatre critic in the early years of the new German Reich. He had the audacity of referring to Goethe as “an egghead” who had no understanding of what made plays effective for audiences, and in other critiques he ridiculed Kleist, Hebbel, and other “important” playwrights—prompting an adversary publicly to call him a “one-man lynch mob.” In the 1880s Blumenthal himself began writing plays, and he was so successful that many self-appointed cultural guardians accused him of damaging the German theatre beyond repair. His became the most frequently performed plays on any ...

Bernd Wilms And The Deutsches Theater In Transition, William Grange

William Grange

During a period in which the Berlin theatre is facing some of the most unsettling changes (and some say its worst crises) in a long and storied history, Bernd Wilms has reason to be optimistic. He may not always be ardent in his enthusiasm, and there are certainly days when he must seriously ponder the viability of theatre’s future in the German capital. As Intendant of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, however, he runs not only one of the city’s most tradition-rich institutions; it is also of its successful enterprises.

Deliver Us From Evil: Essays On Symbolic Engagement In Early Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The focus of this book is on the reality of evil for medieval and Renaissance dramatists and their audiences. What propels the work beyond similar critiques is the author's insistence that evil is not an outmoded feature of past societies, but an active ingredient of contemporary life. Davidson fast forwards from distant times once described as "calamitous" to a century of far more violence and atrocity - our own twentieth and its overflow. While drawing on Kant to illuminate the kinds of evil portrayed in early drama through Marlowe and Shakespeare, Davidson refers to contemporary events that scream for an ...

Feminist History, Theory, And Practice In The Shakespeare Classroom, Robert Lublin

Robert Lublin

No abstract provided.