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Pirates Of Penzance, La Salle University

The Masque Programs

Setting the Scene

The History of Pirates of Penzance

Pirates of Penzance is a story filled with songs, puns, lies, more puns, paradoxes, hearing deficits, leap years, duties, Queens, and of course, pirates. As the audience follows Frederic throughout his journey as a former indentured pirate, we learn about the immoral yet oddly dutiful life of a pirate. Our modern audience is familiar with pirates from the modern interpretation of the peg-legged, parrot wearing, skull and crossbones buccaneer who speaks with many "Arrr's" and "Scallywags." Yet, how accurate is this depiction?

The act of piracy pervaded the trading world for …

God's Favorite, La Salle University

The Masque Programs

Setting the Scene
All action takes place in home of Joe Benjamin on the north shore of Long Island, NY.

Act I Scene I: Midnight
Act I Scene II: Two weeks later

Act II Scene I: A few days later

String Fever, La Salle University

The Masque Programs

Setting the Scene

In String Fever, Lily explores the String Theory as a metaphor for the motivations behind her personal interactions.

The String Theory is often referred to as the "Theory of Everything." It has earned this moniker due to the fact that, through mathematics and physics, it attempts to explain how everything works with just one theory. It has earned some notoriety for the possibility that it could combine several standing physics theories and potentially even explain the existence of gravity.

Previously, the Particle Theory was the accepted idea for studying matter. It states that matter is made …