2010 Season
The 6th Season of CHANGE
May 2010
Henrik Ibsen’s
A Doll’s House
Considered by many to be the first true feminist play, A Doll’s House is a Victorian masterpiece. When it was first performed there were theatre walkouts and it was banned from many cities due to the controversy of its being critical of marriage norms. The play is focused upon one of the greatest characters ever created, Nora Helmer, who is a respectable married mother with a comfortable lifestyle. Once the veneer of domesticity begins to unravel she is forced on an unavoidable journey of self discovery. Throughout, Nora confronts truths that shake the foundations of her existence with far reaching consequences for both herself and those around her. A Doll’s House still poses relevant questions about the roles we play, and conventions to which we allow ourselves to conform.
June 4-6, 2010
711 Theatre Project 2010
The 711 Theatre Project is a non-juried competitive theatre festival of 11-minutes plays. There are a lot of short play festivals around the globe - ones where the playwrights submit their plays months in advance. They are perused, judged, critiqued and then only a handful selected for performance. Then starts the rehearsal and production process - lining up directors, auditioning actors, costuming, set-light-sound design, prop wrangling, etc. Finally, after almost a year has gone by from the day the playwrights put the stamp on their submission envelope, the short plays are produced. The 711 Theatre Project does all this in just 7 days!
June 2010
Free Shakespeare in the Park
Othello
From the words of Othello himself, tells the tale of this tragic Moor:
“When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
Perplex’d in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the low Judas, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum.”
Othello, Act V, Scene II
September 2010
The (Final) Amazing Adventures
of Nigel & Bridgette
They are back - the 2008 & 2009 sensation returns with their final adventures! Take a fragment of “Fawlty Towers”, a modicum of “Monty Python”, a granule of “Good Neighbors”, a dash of “Dr. Who”, a pinch of “The Prisoner”, a scrap of “Star Trek”, Elvis Presley, Ouija Boards, Alternate Dimensions, Overdue 17th Century Library Books, Mysterious Catacombs, Something Called An ‘Atavachron’, and of course Pirates … and you have our September show: “The (Final) Amazing Adventures of Nigel & Bridgette.” Think of it as Rob and Laurie Petrie meet the X-Files – but in England.
(dates and productions subject to change)
