2011-2012 Slate of Shows

One By One - Monologue and Audition Song Competition
7:00 PM, Friday, October 14, 2011
Cash Prizes for the best performed monologues, scenes, and audition songs!


Fall Play

The Tragedy of'
MacBeth
by William Shakespeare
January 5, 6, 7, 2012 - 7 PM
Drama
 
In the bleak and barren moors of 11th-century Scotland, ambitious nobleman Macbeth is fueled by an evil prophecy and his ruthless wife to the regicide that makes him king, but he does not enjoy his newfound power...

Festival One-Act
A Dollar
by David Pinski
Thursday, March 1, 2012 7:00P.M. at Wareham H.S. (with "The Bear")
Friday, March 2, 2012 AM - school performance (with "The Bear")
Saturday, March 3, 20112, Time and Place to be determined ("A Dollar")
Comedy

Written by one of America's most prominent Yiddish playwrights, "A Dollar", which had its' world premier in Provincetown in 1917, is an allegorical play in which a “troupe of stranded strolling players,” tired and destitute, end up haggling over a dollar bill they find. Control of the dollar is fought for by those who would control the power and the destiny of the group. The play concludes ironically, with a sense of Deus-ex-Machina, upon the entrance of a stranger.

On Thursday and Friday with
The Bear
by Anton Chekhov
Farce

Written and performed in 1888, "The Bear" is an excellent representative of Farce. With its fast-paced, biting dialogue alluding to popular song lyrics, accidentally broken furniture, and exaggerated emotions that quickly turn into their opposite, this play resembles an act from vaudeville.

Spring Musical
Pirates of Penzance
Book W.S. Gilbert, Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
May 10, 11, 12 2012 - 7PM

Frederick has fallen in love with sweet innocent Mabel (ward of Major General Stanley), yet his vocation (apprenticed to a pirate) is an impediment to their union. Perhaps the situation can be rectified by his old nurse, Ruth, who made a dreadful blunder years before. Includes favorites "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General", "When the Foeman Bares His Steel", "Hail Poetry" and more!