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2020 - 2021 Season
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September 19, 2020
FusionFest VII
A 24-Hour Play Festival
Saturday 7:30 pm (Wallace Hall Plaza)
Playbill
Video of Production
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 VII – Monmouth College Department of Theatre’s
seventh annual 24-hour
play festival!
Here’s how it
works: At 7:30 PM on Friday, September 18, 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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October 23, 25, 29, 31 2020
An
Enemy of the People
by
Arthur Miller
A Radio Play7:30 pm
Fri., Thurs.
2 pm Sun., Sat.
Cast of Characters
Playbill
Photos of Production
Podcast about the production (Monmouth College)
Podcast about the production
(WMOI)
When
Dr. Stockmann discovers that the water in the small Norwegian town
in which he is the resident physician has been contaminated, he does
what any responsible citizen would do: reports it to the
authorities. But Stockmann’s good deed has the potential to ruin the
town’s reputation as a popular spa destination, and instead of being
hailed as a hero, Stockmann is labeled an enemy of the people.
Arthur Miller’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic drama is a
classic in itself, a penetrating exploration of what happens when
the truth comes up against the will of the majority. A story
for our politically challenging times.
directed by Doug Rankin
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November 20, 22, 2020
Dead Man's Cell Phone
by Sarah Ruhl
7:30 pm
Fri.,
2 pm Sun.
Cast of Characters
Playbill
Photos of Production
Press Release
TV Story (WQAD)
An
incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger
at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man –
with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead
Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by
MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize
finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the
dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the
odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions
about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a
technologically obsessed world.
directed by the Theatre Directing Class
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February 25-28, 2021
Gruesome Playground Injuries
by Rajiv Joseph
7:30 pm
Thurs., Fri.,
Sat.; 2 pm Sun.
Cast of Characters
Playbill
Photos
of Production
Over the course
of 30 years, the lives of Kayleen and Doug intersect at the most
bizarre intervals, leading the two childhood friends to compare
scars and the physical calamities that keep drawing them together.
directed by Todd Quick
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April 15-18, 2021
Little Women
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein;
Music by Jason Howland
Book by
Allan Knee
7:30 pm
Thurs.-Sat.; 2 pm Sun.
Cast of Characters
Playbill
Based
on Louisa May Alcott's life, Little
Women follows
the adventures of sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March. Jo is trying
to sell her stories for publication, but the publishers are not
interested – her friend, Professor Bhaer, tells her that she has to
do better and write more from herself.
Begrudgingly taking this advice, Jo weaves the story of herself and
her sisters and their experience growing up in Civil War America.
directed and choreographed by Vanessa Campagna
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