Grinnell College Theatre Department

Grinnell College Theatre Productions, 2000-2001

 

Blood Wedding, by Federico García Lorca

A Grinnell Theatre Department Mainstage Production, directed by Christopher Connelly
Friday - Sunday, October 6 & 7 at 8:00 p.m.; October 8 at 2:00 p.m.
Roberts Theatre


 

Love's Fire: Three short plays based on Three Shakespearean Sonnets

A Grinnell Theatre Department Open Space Production, directed by Katrina Bugaj '01 and Thomas Robson '02
Performances are Friday at 8, Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 2, November 3-5, 2000.
Wall Performance Lab

The three plays are Terminating, or Lass meine Schmerzen nicht verloren sein, or Ambivalence, by Tony Kushner (playwright of Angels in America), Hydraulics Phat Like Mean, by Ntozake Shange (playwright of for colored girls who have considered suicide) and 140 by Marsha Norman (playwright of 'Night Mother).


 

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf , by Ntozake Shange, Noun Visiting Scholar

A Grinnell Theatre Department Mainstage Production, directed by Harriette Pierce, Visiting Guest Director, Visiting Asst. Professor, Department of African American World Studies Program & Theatre Arts Department, University of Iowa
November 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18 at 8:00 p.m.; November 19 at 2:00 p.m.
Flanagan Studio Theatre


 

Second Annual Dance Troupe Fall Concert of Student Choreography

A Grinnell Theatre Department Student Production, advised by Teresa Heiland
Thursday and Friday, November 30 & December 1, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
Roberts Theatre


 

'night Mother, by Marsha Norman

A Grinnell Theatre Department Advanced Directing Project, directed by Lindsey Sterrett
Thursday - Saturday, March 1-3, 2001, 8:00 p.m.
Flanagan Studio Theatre

This play, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, explores the final hour in the life of a young woman who has decided that life is no longer worth living.


 

The Recruiting Officer, by George Farquhar

A Grinnell Theatre Department Mainstage Production, directed by Lesley Delmenico
Friday - Sunday, March 9 & 10 at 8:00 p.m.; March 11 at 2:00 p.m.
Roberts Theatre

The Recruiting Officer was based on George Farquhar's own recruiting experiences in Litchfield and Shrewsbury as a Lieutenant of Grenadiers in 1704. The comedy is a mixture of pastoral romp, amorous intrigue, indictment of recruiting methods and satire on the officer class.

 

Tessitura - Dance Concert

A Grinnell Theatre Department Dance Troupe Production, directed by Teresa Heiland
Friday and Saturday, April 20 & 21, 2001, 8:00 p.m.
Roberts Theatre

During the spring Dance Troupe concert, Teresa Heiland will be implementing collaboration between the arts using interactive computer technology called "Very Nervous Software," developed especially for theatrical, dance, and music collaborations in which artists of various disciplines structure, choreograph, compose, design, and activate a space using sensors which can play music off of dancers' bodies, lights off of sound pitches, or mark zones in space which actors stimulate as they talk or move. The options are endless due to hardware and software designed just for the purpose. This project will be one work presented in the spring dance concert.

 

Our Country's Good, by Timberlake Wertenbaker

A Grinnell Theatre Department Mainstage Production, directed by Ellen Mease
Wednesday - Sunday, May 2, 3, 4, 5 at 8:00 p.m.; May 5 & 6 at 2:00 p.m.
Flanagan Studio Theatre

In June of 1789, a marine lieutenant decides to celebrate the King's birthday by putting on a play - the first ever produced in Australia. The cast consists of convicts saved from the gallows and jails of England, few of whom can read, much less act. The play is being produced against a background of food shortages and barbaric punishments which are brilliantly juxtaposed against the civilizing influence of theatrical endeavor. It is a true story.


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