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A Streetcar Named Desire
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2010 performance of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.
A Streetcar Named Desire follows the story of southern belle, Blanche DuBois, who has gone through a series of personal losses and moves in with her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley in a dilapidated New Orleans tenement.
We Will Not Be Silent
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s October 2010 performance of We Will Not Be Silent. by William Gebby.
During the darkest days of WWII, a handful of German college students distributed thousands of anti-Nazi leaflets and worked toward unifying resistance across Germany. They called themselves the White Rose, and their faith drew them to engage in a fight that would cost them their lives. William Gebby’s brand new play celebrates the lives of these brave young people who would not and will not be silent.
Performed by the Taylor Touring Company.
The Bald Soprano
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2010 performance of The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco.
The Bald Soprano: An Anti-Play follows the events of a traditional couple who invite over another couple, and are later joined by their maid and the maid’s lover. The characters engage in meaningless banter that becomes even more nonsensical as time goes on.
In this adaptation the actors play the actresses’ roles and the actresses play the actor’s roles.
Doubt
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2010 performance of Doubt by John Patrick Shanley.
Doubt: A Parable is the story of a fictional Catholic school in Bronx and the clash between the parish priest, Father Flynn, and school’s principal, Sister Aloysius, over the suspicion that Flynn molested an alter boy.
This play is performed by the faculty and staff of Taylor University.
Crimes Of The Heart
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2010 performance of Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley.
Crimes of the Heart tells the story of the three Magrath sisters, Meg, Babe, and Lenny, who reunite at their grand father’s home in Mississippi after Babe shoots her abusive husband.
Hippolytus
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The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2010 performance of Hippolytus by Euripides.
Hippolytus is the illegitimate son of Theseus, the king of Athens. The play tells how the goddess of love, Aphrodite, maliciously enacts vengeance on Hippolytus for his oath to chastity and service to the goddess of the hunt, Artemis.