Forever Waltz
By Glynn Maxwell  
Directed by Amy L. Sarno  
8 p.m. Kresge Theatre  Oct. 2, 3, 4, & Oct. 9, 10, 11, 2008  

John, stricken with grief, unexpectedly finds himself in the   
underworld. A guitar-strumming guide leads John to his one true love,   
Evie. Yet, something's different: is this a mirage of Evie? Or, is it   
her? Or, is it what remains of Evie after loving John? In any case,   
John's guide requires an answer, "Decide at once whether you take   
her. Sunlight or this." By delaying his decision, John gets caught in   
a cyclical replay of his relationship that slowly reveals the power,   
control, and even violence that were the realities of his love for   
Evie. Glynn Maxwell's The Forever Waltz is a poetic, haunting, and   
immensely witty interpretation of Orpheus's pursuit of Eurydice.    





Importance of Being Earnest
  By Oscar Wilde  
Directed By Rod Umlas  
8 p.m. Neese Theatre  
Nov 13, 14, 15, & Nov. 20, 21, 22, 2008 
 
In this brilliant variant on farce, Wilde infused the form, based on   
comic complications of plot and improbability, with some of the most   
witty and satirical dialogue ever written. The result is his most   
popular play that derives its humor in part from the characters   
maintaining fictitious identities to allow them to escape unwelcome   
social obligations. Two young men seek the hands of two young women   
in spite of social obstacles no more serious than the young men   
themselves. Both face an additional obstacle - their chosen lovers   
can only cherish a man named Ernest, and neither qualifies. The   
outcome may never be in doubt, but the course of one of the great   
comedies of the English language could not be more delicious or satisfying.    



Chelonia Concert  
Feb 5, 6, 7, 8, 2009  

The Chelonia 2009 dance concert is sure to delight and surprise   
audiences this year with a variety of dance styles including an   
African dance choreographed by guest artist Chris Walker and an   
American Tribal Bellydance staged by guest artists and alumni Seana   
Dishun and Christing King. Of course the performance will also   
include new works by dance faculty Chris Johnson and Dmitri Peskov as   
well as select works by our finest student choreographers.


    


Doubt  
By John Patrick Shanley  
Directed by Rod Umlas  
8 p.m. Kresge Theatre  
Feb 26, 27, 28, & March 5, 6, 7, 2009  

John Patrick Shanley subtitles his 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award   
winning play, "a parable," a short story, usually of a familiar   
occurrence, from which a moral lesson may be drawn. One might well   
expect that truth could be deduced from such a moral tale but the   
playwright has entitled his play Doubt, suggesting that the moral   
lesson the play poses may entail ambiguity rather than certainty. In   
this engrossing drama set in the1960s, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx   
school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects   
the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male   
students. Is or is not Father Flynn a pedophile? Is or is not the   
Mother Superior justified in the course of action she pursues? If   
there's a possibility that children are being abused, should a moral   
person act, even at the risk of targeting and destroying an innocent man?    



Anna Karenina  
by Helen Edmundson  
Directed by Amy L. Sarno  
8 p.m. Neese Theatre  
April 23, 24, 25, & April 30, May 1, 2, 2009  

Anna Karenina was a shy girl with red hands who married too young and   
now longs for Vronsky, the man she can never completely have. Levin,   
an aristocratic farmer, lingers on his estate determined to forget   
Kitty, a beautiful young woman who believes Vronsky will marry her.   
Anna and Levin are magnetic opposites somehow drawn together by the   
regal Vronsky. Tolstoy's story of the conflict between honesty to   
oneself in the face of society's pretensions is imaginatively crafted   
in Edmundson's dazzling adaptation. 
       


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