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Uncommon Women & Others, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Uncommon Women & Others, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1990-1991 Season
Uncommon Women and Others (1977), is the first play by noted 20th-century American playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Alumnae of Mount Holyoke College (Wasserstein's alma mater) meet for lunch one day in 1978 and talk about their time together in college. The play is thus a series of flashbacks to the 1972-1973 school year as seven seniors and one freshman try to "discover themselves" in the wake of second-wave feminism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncommon_Women_and_Others
Man Of La Mancha, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Man Of La Mancha, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1990-1991 Season
Man of La Mancha is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion, and music by Mitch Leigh. It tells the story of the "mad" knight Don Quixote as a play within a play, performed by Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition. The work is not and does not pretend to be a faithful rendition of either Cervantes' life or of Don Quixote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_La_Mancha#Synopsis
Much Ado About Nothing, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Much Ado About Nothing, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1990-1991 Season
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career. The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623.
By means of "noting" (which, in Shakespeare's day, sounded similar to "nothing" as in the play's title, and which means gossip, rumour, and overhearing), Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confessing their love for each other, and Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero at the altar on the erroneous belief that she has been unfaithful. At the end, Benedick and Beatrice …
Good, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Good, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1990-1991 Season
Good is an award-winning play in two acts written by British playwright Cecil Philip Taylor. Good has been described as the definitive piece written about the Holocaust in the English-speaking theatre. Set in pre-war Germany, it shows how John Halder, a liberal-minded professor whose best friend is the Jewish Maurice, could not only be seduced into joining the Nazism, but step-by-rationalised-step end up embracing the final solution justifying to his conscience the terrible actions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_(play)