Theatre Arts
Drama
2009-2010
Summer QUARTER 2009
Midsummer Dreamin'
A Musical Fantasia on Shakespeare's
A Midsummer Night's Dream
July 31 - August 2 / 7:30 p.m. / Stop Gap Theatre
Hyppolota is the ex-CEO of Amazon.com. Theseus scored a hostile takeover and is now wooing
Hippolita and readying for marriage. Add a quartet of lusty teens, a group of out of work
Computer geeks, a wedding planned aboard a Ferry bound for the San Juans, the
Fairy King and Queen at war and a score of pop, rock and jazz songs and you
have Midsummer Dreamin'
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Fall Quarter 2009
Fuente Ovejuna
by Lope de Vega
An abused woman who challenges her town to confront the lord who
is mistreating
the citizens by one of Spain's greatest classical writers.
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Stage Fright Student Drama
DIRECTions
Festival of student written and directed 10 minute plays
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Winter Quarter 2010
Student Choreographers Workshop
BC dance students show that they KNOW they can dance
in this fun night of dance.
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Noises Off
by Michael Frayn
An onstage/backstage farcical look at a cast of provincial British
actors and a flop called NOTHING'S ON while their personal
lives interfere with hilarious repercussions.
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Spring Quarter 2010
Stage Fright Student Drama
The Complete Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)
by The Reduced Shakespeare Company
All 37 Plays by Shakespeare in 97 Minutes!
An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard's work.
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BC Dance Ensemble:
The Moving Company
These student dancers work all year to bring eclectic music,
professional choreographers and hot jazz / modern / ballet
and more to Carlson Theatre
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In Rotating Rep:
You're A Good Man,
Charlie Brown
Book, music, lyrics: Clark Gesner
A musical that joyfully recounts the wisdom of the
Peanuts gang in a show for the whole family!
AND
Dog Sees God:
Confessions of a
Teenage Blockhead
by Bert V. Royal
Charlie Brown and his friends have become teens and they
are no longer fit for the Sunday funnies! Facing high school
they are both geninely sympathetic and unquestionably cruel
as they tackle alcohol, sex, love, madness and death.
For mature audiences.