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2019 - 2020 Season
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Fusion Theatre |
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September 20-21, 2019
FusionFest VI
A 24-Hour Play Festival
Starting at 7:30 pm
Friday (lobby)
Performance Saturday 7:30 pm (in front of Fusion)
Playbill
Video of Production
Press Release
What happens when
entire plays are created, rehearsed, staged, and performed for an
audience – all in the span of 24 hours?
Just about
anything. And it’s a whole lot of fun to watch!
Welcome to FusionFest VI – Monmouth College Department of Theatre’s
sixth annual 24-hour
play festival!
Here’s how it
works: At 7:30 PM on Friday, September 20, a group of playwrights
will each randomly draw a team of actors, a director, and a random
phrase. The intrepid (and soon to be sleep-deprived) playwrights
then have a mere 12 hours to write a short play featuring their
actors and, at some point in the dialogue, their random phrase. At
7:30 AM, the playwrights hand off their brand-new creations, and the
director and actors then have until 7:30 PM to rehearse, stage, and
memorize it all before performing before a live audience on Saturday
night.
Hilarity and
hijinks are bound to ensue as part of this chaotic and exciting
theatrical event!
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November 21-24, 2019
A Child's Christmas in Wales
by
Dylan Thomas
adapted by Jeremy Brooks and Adrian Mitchell
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A co-production with the Buchanan Center for the Arts |
7:30 pm Thurs.-Sat.
2 pm-Sun.
Cast
of Characters
Playbill
Photos of Production
Podcast
Press Release
Register Mail Story
All
your Christmases will live again in the magic of Dylan Thomas'
poetic language. "I can never remember whether it snowed for six
days and six nights when I was twelve or twelve days and twelve
nights when I was six." Despite the fact that this is a Welsh
Christmas and the music is also Welsh, Dylan Thomas has managed to
universalize the very essence of Christmas as any child anywhere
might perceive it. If the play has a plot it is the story of
Christmas Day itself, from its quiet, magical beginning full of
thrilling expectations to the end when the boy Dylan creeps up to
the bed, replete with the joy of a perfect Christmas. This is Christmas just the way
Christmas always should be.
directed by Todd Quick
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February 27-March 1, 2020
The Real Inspector Hound
by Tom Stoppard
7:30 pm Thurs.-Sat.
2 pm-Sun.
Cast
of Characters
Playbill
Photos of Production
Podcast
Press Release
Attending
the premiere of a new murder mystery, two feuding theatre critics
soon find themselves inside the play-within-a-play and implicated in
the lethal activities of an escaped madman.
directed by Todd Quick
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2022
The Revolutionists
by Lauren Gunderson
Cast
of Characters
To our patrons, we regret that we have had to postpone The
Revolutionists until a future time. We are still excited to bring
the production to you in as close a manner to our original vision. If
you have purchased tickets and wish a refund, please email me
drankin@monmouthcollege.edu.
best wishes,
Doug Rankin,
Director of Theatre
Four
beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent,
girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution's Reign of
Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday,
former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian
rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back
the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris.This grand and dream-tweaked
comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and
terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go
about changing the world. It's a true story. Or total fiction. Or a
play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection...that ends in a song
and a scaffold.
directed by Vanessa Campagna
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