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2016 - 2017 Season
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September 9-10, 2016
Fusion Fest III
A 24-Hour Play Festival
Starting at 7:30 pm
Friday
Performance Saturday 7:30 pm
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 Fusion
Fest III – Monmouth College Department of Theatre’s third annual 24 hour
play festival!
Here’s how it
works: At 7:30 PM on Friday, September 9, 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.
Hilarity and
hijinks are bound to ensue as part of this chaotic and exciting
theatrical event!
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October 27-30, 2016
Oedipus Rex
by
Sophocles
7:30 pm Thurs.-Sat.
2 pm-Sun.
Cast of Characters
Playbill (pdf)
Photos of Production
Scenic Design Photos
Press Release
T hebes
is a city—a city in trouble. It all seems tied up in the murder of
Laius, the previous king. Lucky for the citizens, Oedipus is in
charge now, and he’ll go to any length to solve the mystery. Who’s
to blame? Does Creon, his brother-in-law, want Oedipus out of the
way? Will the fortune teller, Tiresias, ever reveal what he truly
knows? Did the shepherd put the kibosh on the king? What do we
really know about Oedipus’s wife, the fatally beautiful Jocasta? Is
she somehow more than what she seems? And with a troubled family
past, and a curse hanging over his head, should Oedipus be looking
even closer to home, or is he too blind to see the truth? This play
by Sophocles has been called “the first detective story,” and here
Greek tragedy crashes into the gritty pictures and colorful words
from film noir, in a shadowy, dangerous world of detectives,
secrets, and femme fatales.
directed by Ron Zank
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November 17-20,2016
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
7:30 pm Thurs.-Sat.
2 pm-Sun.
Cast of Characters
Playbill (pdf)
Photos of Production
Press Release
Widely regarded as one
of the greatest American plays of all time, The Crucible was
originally written as a parable of 1950’s McCarthyism. As with the
alleged witches of Salem, suspected Communists were encouraged to
confess and identify other Communist sympathizers as means of
escaping punishment. Many of those accused of Communism suffered
loss of employment and/or destruction of their careers; some even
suffered imprisonment. Miller's ideas resonate in the embattled
world of today's political contexts with strong polarization between
the ideologies of parties regarding religious freedom, social
policies and fear of the unknown.
directed by Ellen Johnson
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April 6-9, 2017
Meet Me in St. Louis
songs by Hugh Martin and Ralph
Blane; Book by Hugh Wheeler
7:30 pm Thurs.-Sat.
2 pm-Sun.
Cast of Characters
Playbill (pdf)
Press Release
Meet
Me in St. Louis
is a rare treasure in the musical theatre, and is based on the
heartwarming movie.
Join the Smith family at the 1904 World’s Fair, and
see how their love and respect for each other is tempered with the
genuine humor that can only be generated by such a special family.
Memorable musical numbers include The Boy Next Door, A Raving
Beauty, The Trolley Song, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,
Whenever I’m with You and A Day in New York.
directed by Vanessa Campagna
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April 27-30, 2017
7:30 pm Thurs.-Sat.
2 pm-Sun.
The
Flattering
Word
by George Kelly
The
adventures of an actor on tour, resting upon the intriguing theme
that you can cure a person of his prejudice by extending him the
flattery of comparing him to an actor." That leaves out a very
important piece of the plot...it is built upon the theme that...a
person can be cured of his prejudice..."against actors"...by
extending him the flattery of comparing him to an actor. In this
instance the prejudiced one is a clergyman, and a touring actor,
with the help of the clergyman's wife, cures him.
Cast of
Characters
Playbill (pdf)
directed by
Kyrsten Hume
The Man of
infinite Sadness
by Brian Tanen
An
examination of longing and the quest for self-knowledge, laced with
gentle humor. Two women, co-workers who, during lunch on their
office rooftop, observe a man who comes there every day, crying like
a baby. Both are taken with the crying man's evident sensitivity and
begin to fantasize about him.
Cast of Characters
Playbill
(pdf)
Photos of Production
directed by
Amanda Grissom
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