2008-2009 Theatre Arts Season

Drama and Dance

 


FALL QUARTER

 

Theatre Arts/Drama

7 Minutes to Midnight

World Premiere

Conceived and directed by Dennis Schebetta

developed with the actors

Stop Gap Theatre

Nov. 14, 15, 21, 22 - 8:00 pm

Nov. 20 - 7:00 pm

$10 Students, $12 General

 

Using text, movement and music, this ensemble-based play examines the creation of the atomic bomb, the scientists who tried to warn the world about its power and how this one invention continues to affect everyone on this planet.  The clock is ticking…And the battles of power between truth and lies could result in a chain reaction of destruction or peace.

                 Please join a panel of BCC scientists and artists for a discussion following the Thurs. Nov. 20 performance.

 

Stage Fright Student Drama

DIRECTions

 Student Written and Directed Ten Minute Plays

Stop Gap Theatre

December 6 and 7 - 8:00 pm

 All Tickets $5

 

The evening of short plays is always fun and usually surprising as students direct, write, design and perform dramas and comedies that take the audience from beginning to end in ten short minutes.

 

Stage Fright Student Drama tickets available at the door.

 

 

 

 

WINTER QUARTER

 

Theatre Arts/Drama

The Music Man

Book, music and lyrics by Meredith Wilson

Directed by Tammis Doyle

Musically Directed by Julie Denninghoff

Carlson Theatre

March 5, 6, 7, 7:30

March 7 - 2:30 pm

 $12 Student, $15 General

 

This multiple Tony Award winning musical concerns the fast talking

con man Harold Hill.  His attempt to fleece the good people of River City Iowa is challenged by the cynical but compassionate librarian, Marion Paroo.  Will Harold get the parents to pay for band instruments, lessons and uniforms that will never come?  Will Marion expose Harold?  Or might a turn of the century miracle of morality and faith intervene?  Join us for this classic combination of song, dance and story that is The Music Man. 

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Theatre Arts/Dance

Student Choreography Workshop

Carlson Theatre

March 13 - 8:00 pm

Free

 

BCC Dance students choreograph to some of the best and some of the newest music around.  Many different styles will be represented as they try their hands...and feet and bodies at creating dances.

 

Tickets available through www.brownpapertickets.com 1-800-838-3006

 

 

 

SPRING QUARTER

 

Stage Fright Student Drama

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

directed by Heather Amos

Stop Gap Theatre

April 9, 10, 11 - 8:00 pm

All Tickets $5

 

Once a year a student is chosen to lead of group of student designers, actors and technicians toward a full production.  In 2007 Heather Amos was the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Inge Directing Competition First Alternate.  Now she is at the helm of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays.  The Stop Gap Theatre will erupt with techno music as the young lovers' passion leads to tragedy in this contemporary cyberpunk retelling of timeless love.

 

Theatre Arts/Dance

The Eastside Moving Company

directed by Betty Ann Platt

Carlson Theatre

May 8 and 9 - 8:00 pm

$7 Students $8 General

 

Each spring BCC's dance ensemble, The Eastside Moving Company thrills with choreography by its director Betty Ann Platt and noted local, national and student choreographers.  This year will prove to delight with jazz, ballet, modern and some surprises as well! 

 

Theatre Arts/Drama

The Dining Room

by A.R, Gurney

directed by Tammis Doyle

Stop Gap Theatre

May 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 - 8:00 pm

$10 Student, $12 General

 

6-10 actors will portray 57 characters through 17 scenes all set in a traditional American family dining room.  Love, loss, hope, betrayal, and friendship: all are portrayed around, atop, under and at the dinner table.  The Dining Room is one look at our culture as it has evolved over the past 50 years in that place of formality, rebellion and family.