2008 - 2009 SEASON
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MACHINAL By Sophie Treadwell Directed by Jennifer Tuder October 14 - 18 at 8 pm October 19 at 2 pm Center Stage, Performing Arts Center
A young woman with a steady job and comfortable home embraks on an illicit affair and winds up murdering her husband. It's a shocking story - isn't it? First produced in 1928, Sophie Treadwell's Machinal tells the story of all ordinary women forced to exchange their freedom for security. Step by step, this average young woman discovers that each aspect of her life is nothing more than a series of traps. Radical in its views and style, Machinal continues to provoke audiences with its enduring question: "If this were your life, what would you do?"
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THE BACCHAE By Euripides Adapted and Directed by Jeffrey Bleam November 18 - 22 at 8 pm November 23 at 2 pm Arena Stage, Performing Arts Center
The women of Thebes have run wild into the mountains, cursed by Dionysus for not acknowledging His virgin birth. Pursuing his vengeance further, the God Himself enters the nearly-deserted Thebes to enact a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the city's arrogant ruler. Regarded as the most scandalous yet "modern" of the Greek playwrights, Euripides creates a compelling struggle between divine right and political power, pursuing it to unspeakably tragic ends.
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THE MARTYRDOM OF PETER OHEY By Slawomir Mrozek Directed by Vladimir Rovinsky February 24 - 28 at 8 pm February 29 at 2 pm Center Stage, Performing Arts Center
One day, the peaceful flow of life for the quite average family of Peter Ohey is suddenly interupted with astonishing news: There is a tiger living in their bathroom! This discovery propels the plot of The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey by Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek. What will the Government do now? How will the news effect the family's taxes? Could the tiger help to fix foreign policy problems? And most importantly: Who will die in the end?
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ON THE VERGE (or, The Geography of Yearning) By Eric Overmyer Directed by Brenda Wentworth March 31 - April 4 at 8 pm April 5 at 2 pm Arena Stage, Performing Arts Center
Three venturesome Victorian female explorers journey to remote corners of the world together. As they travel deeper into dark jungles and snow-capped mountains, the audience realizes the women are also traveling forward in time, encountering the strange and obscure languages and artifacts of the later Twentieth century. Join these intrepid ladies and discover the indigenous individuals and intersting ideas they encounter in this hilarious adventure through time and space.
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REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE presents "RETRO" April 23 - 25 at 8 pm Center Stage, Performing Arts Center
Repertory Dance Theatre presents "Retro", featuring choreography by special guest artists Morgan Thorsen and John Munger, and SCSU faculty April Sellers and Tracy Vacura. With music by Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Peggy Lee and many others, RDT looks to the past for inspiration in this exciting retrospective dance concert.
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NEW Ticket prices:
$10.00 Adult, $7.00 Non-SCSU Student and Senior Citizens, Free with SCSU ID
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