JSU Drama's 2004-2005 Season
AS
YOU LIKE IT
A
comedy by William Shakespeare
October
7-11, 2004
AS YOU LIKE IT
A
comedy by William Shakespeare
October
7-11, 2004
“All
the world’s a stage,” we are reminded by Jaques in AS YOU LIKE IT,
one of William Shakespeare’s
best
loved comedies and our season’s opening production. Along with the foolishly
wise Jaques, we’ll
meet
the wisely foolish Touchstone, the merrily exiled Duke, the enchanting young
lovers Rosalind and
Orlando,
and a green forest full of other richly comic and romantic characters. It’s the perfect show to
begin
a season guaranteed to prove that the stage is also “all the
world.”
“All
the world’s a stage,” we are reminded of other richly comic and romantic
characters. It’s the perfect
how
to begin a season guaranteed to prove that the stage is also “all the
world.”
A
Doll’s House
A
drama by Henrik Ibsen
Translated
by Eva Le Gallienne
November
18-21, 2004
Henrik
Ibsen’s A DOLL’S HOUSE reveals the unfulfilled, ordinary life of
its heroine, Nora.
Through delicate and moving language,
Nora discovers her dignity as a human being in a
hypocritical world. Her
fight and fearless individualism penetrates the
secret motives of mind and spirit.
THE MYSTERY OF
EDWIN DROOD
A musical by Rupert Holmes
February
17-20 and 24-27, 2005
This play-within-a-play begins as the
Music Hall Royale puts on its flamboyant rendition of an unfinished
play by Dickens. The story deals with a Jekyl/Hyde-type
choirmaster by the name of John Jasper who
is quite madly in love
with his lovely young student, Rosa Bud. The catch is that Miss Bud is engaged
to his nephew
Edwin Drood. As luck would have it, Drood disappears after a particularly stormy
Christmas
Eve dinner party—is he dead? No one knows! And, it’s left to our audience to
figure
out
whodunit since Mr. Dickens died before he finished the story. Musical numbers include
The
Wages of Sin, Perfect Strangers, Both Sides of the Coin, Don't Quit While You're
Ahead
and Moonfall.
Be
sure to be here to cast your vote because the audience decides the outcome
of
this giddy musical nightly!
HEROES
A
drama by David Muschell
Winner
of 2004’s Southern
Playwright’s
Competition
May
19-22, 2005
In
late October, 2001, Billy Mazzolli arrives at a small fire station in Tennessee.
He tells the fire
fighters
that he was a fire fighter in New York and that he had become overwhelmed by
9/11.
Everyone
takes him in and begins treating him as a hero—everyone, that is, but Paul, a
fire fighter
who becomes suspicious. HEROES
is based on a true story.
It highlights our tendency to trust
those
who claim to be like us just about as easily as we distrust those we think to be
different.
ON
ON
THE VERGE
OR
THE GEOGRAPHY OF YEARNING
A comic
fantasy by Eric Overmyer
June
16-19, 2005
“Space:
the final frontier,” says Captain James T. Kirk at the start of each episode of
TV’s ever
popular
STAR TREK series. “Not so fast,” suggest the three Victorian
heroines at the start of
ON
THE VERGE OR THE GEOGRAPHY OF YEARNING.
The journey of exploration which
takes
these “lady adventurers” from the jungles of Africa to the mountains of Tibet,
also takes
them
to uncharted regions of character, language, symbol, and (perhaps most
intriguing of all)
...time.
See this haunting, imaginative, and very funny play, and then decide for
yourself: what,
after
all, is “the final frontier?