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The 2022 Classroom Project: Land Of Ours, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
The 2022 Classroom Project: Land Of Ours, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2021-2022 Season Production
LAND OF OURS is a brand-new play devised in rehearsal by an ensemble of Otterbein University actors, designers, stage managers, and directors. The play explores the centrality of travel and journeying to human experience. Drawing on the ensemble's personal experiences, stories of mythical travel from legend and folklore, and travel explorations invented in rehearsal, LAND OF OURS is a theatrical journey that will transport you beyond the theater walls to a destination of the imagination.
Something Rotten!, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
Something Rotten!, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2021-2022 Season Production
Something Rotten takes place in 1595 London, England. The Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel are trying to find success by writing plays, but are outshined by the rock-star playwright of the Renaissance, William Shakespeare. Desperate to find success Nick gets help from a soothsayer for the next big hit.
A Lie Of The Mind, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
A Lie Of The Mind, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2021-2022 Season Production
Sam Shepherd, a mastermind of dark humor and powerful drama, out does himself with this story of two dysfunctional families joined by marriage in the American West, each trying to hold on to the ideal picture of stability without ever having experienced it. Jake believes he may have killed his wife, Beth, during a domestic dispute and, to calm his concerns, his brother Frankie attempts to get the real story by traveling to Beth’s family home in Montana. While he is relieved to see Beth alive, though severely injured from the incident, Frankie is suddenly entangled in a bizarre familial …
A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2021-2022 Season Production
Join us as we celebrate a return to live theater with a very special staged concert version of the show that was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020. While we are unable to fully realize the elaborate design of this hilarious knock-em-dead musical romp, the script will be performed in full with much of the original cast, and you will not leave without having a hearty laugh. Poor, low-born Monty Navarro is desperate to inherit the dukedom by surpassing no fewer than eight members of the well-to-do D’Ysquith family in line before him. Just wait until …
The Pajama Game, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
The Pajama Game, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2021-2022 Season Production
Based on the novel 7 ½,The Pajama Game tells the story of a labor furor over a seven-and-a-half-cent pay raise at a pajama plant that complicates the course of true love for Sid Sorokin, the new factory superintendent, and Babe Williams, the feisty firebrand heading the Union Grievance Committee.