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“…Of Things Unseen”

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1991 Advanced Oral Interpretation Class’s performance of …Of Things Unseen adapted by Oliver Hubbard.

Heidi, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1991-1992 Season

Heidi is a fresh and delightful play of the Swiss Alps. Heidi is one of the happiest characters in all literature to present before children. Lucille Miller's play depicts her vividly as a winning and personable little girl who is full of fun and mischief but whose influence is nevertheless wholesome and good. Her scenes with the calm uncle and with the Sesemann family are especially dramatic and make an eloquent appeal to every heart. The play follows the book closely, retaining all the well-loved episodes that keep this story eternally alive in the hearts of children. https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/heidi-hb2000

Program For The Stage Production The Crucible, Protheatre Club

Theater Production Programs

This four-page program details the ProTheatre of Ursinus College's production of "The Crucible", held November 6 to 8, 1991, in the Ritter Center. It includes information about the cast and production crew as well as a scene synopsis.

The Medea Myth Flyer, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 1990-1991 Season

Adaptation by Dan Plato

Translation of Medea by C. Carleton

Directed by Susan Clark

Dimensions: 7" x 11"

The Cutting Edge, November/December 1991, Vol. 2 Issue 6, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

The Medea Myth Program [1991], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 1991-1992 Season

Adaptation by Dan Plato

Translation of Medea by C. Carleton

Directed by Susan Clark

Junior Rocha: A Night Of Illusion & Fantasy Program [1991], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 1990-1991 Season

Junior Rocha has studied mime in Brazil, in the U.S.A. with Tony Montanaro,
and in Paris, France. He has also performed internationally and regionally from
Rio de Janiero, Brasilia, Natal, Paris, and London to the Maine Festival,
Celebration Bam Theater, Boston Museum of Science, and in New York City.
Junior has recently returned from a tour in Aruba with Tony Montanaro and
Karen Hurill.

Sarcophagus

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1991 performance of Sarcophagus by Vladimir Gubaryev.

Sarcophagus is an exploration of the Chernobyl Disaster, a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine. The play takes place in the Institute of Radiation Safety, near Moscow, immediately following the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster.

Rumors, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1991-1992 Season

Rumors, is a madcap, slamming door farce set in a large home located just outside of New York in the year 1988. The characters are arriving as guests at a 10th Anniversary Dinner. The first couple to arrive discovers that one of their hosts (Charley) has apparently attempted suicide...unsuccessfully. Charley’s wife, Myra, is nowhere to be found and neither are the servants. Through the course of the show, the audience never meets Charley or Myra. As more guests arrive, there are cover-ups, deceptions, mistaken identities, and a lot of huge laughs.

The Fight Master, Fall 1991, Vol. 14 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors

Fight Master Magazine

No abstract provided.

A Midsummer Night's Dream Program [1991], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 1991-1992 Season

by William Shakespeare

Directed by Will Kilroy

Perlimplín: Lorca's Drama About Theatre, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

The contemplation of a theatrical work as a type of semiotizing machine which generates a network of signification systems, implies, a priori, the task of specifying the boundaries which define the object of analysis. Hence the dichotomy of text and performance has long been recognized as uniquely inherent in the theatre genre and, therefore, a logical preoccupation of the theatre semiotician. As indicated by contemporary theoretical work (such as that of Patrice Pavis and Anne Ubersfeld), it would appear that the role of the spectator in the reception of a performance is finally coming into view as an essential aspect …

1991 - 1992 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

The Cutting Edge, September/October 1991, Vol. 2 Issue 5, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

The Cutting Edge, July/August 1991, Vol. 2 Issue 4, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

Now Now, Darling, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1991 Summer Theatre

In a London fur salon, Arnold Crouch, one of the two owners, has difficulty keeping everything going afloat, while his partner, Gilbert Bodley, is off philandering. Bodley decides to sell his new mistress' husband a fur coat for an extremely low price in order to win her affection, and Crouch is stuck presiding over the deal. The husband decides to give the coat to his own mistress, and all hell breaks out. In the end, despite mistaken identities and all sorts of problems, everything turns out as it should.

https://stageagent.com/shows/play/1984/not-now-darling

Blue Window, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1991 Summer Theatre

An Off-Broad way hit and winner of the prestigious George and Elisabeth Marton playwriting award, as well as the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award, Blue Window is a funny, inventive account of the lives of seven New Yorkers gathered together for a Sunday evening dinner party. During the course of the play we get an intimate glimpse of the before, during and after of the party and its wonderfully bizarre party guests; most of whom are artists of various kinds. There’s a narcissistic actor, an aspiring musician, a noted writer, a family therapist, a secretary and a parachuting instructor; all …

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

1991 Summer Theatre

A revival of this bawdy musical hit. It is madcap farce at its best. Based on the Roman play by Plautus this modern adaptation with music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Stephen Sondheim combines the hilarious nonsense of vaudeville with a variety of musical memorables such as Comedy Tonight and Everybody Ought to Have a Maid. Laughs for the entire family!

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

The Matchmaker

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 1991 performance of The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder.

Before the world fell in love with "Hello, Dolly!", Thornton Wilder’s uproarious play "The Matchmaker" introduced Ms. Dolly Gallagher Levi: a cunning, crafty, and thoroughly modern woman who knows a good catch when she sees one. When the wealthy Horace Vandergelder hires matchmaker Ms. Levi to find him a wife, Dolly doesn't need to look far to find his perfect mate. While Dolly is “arranging things” for Mr. Vandergelder, the young, hopeless romantics of Yonkers reap the rewards of Dolly’s generosity.

1991 Otterbein Summer Theatre Season Brochure, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

The Cutting Edge, May/June 1991, Vol. 2 Issue 3, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

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

Program For The Stage Production Conflict And Creativity: An Evening Of Contemporary One-Act Plays, Protheatre Club

Theater Production Programs

This four-page program details the ProTheatre of Ursinus College's production of three one-act plays held April 10 to 13, 1991, in the Ritter Center. The three plays are "Calm Down Mother", "The Author's Voice", and "Reasonable Circulation". Information about the cast and production crew is included.

Anton Chekhov: Three Vaudevilles Program [1991], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 1990-1991 Season

By Anton Chekhov

Directed by Yvonne Shaffer

These short early comedies, (Chekhov himself described them as "vaudevilles"), though light-hearted and indeed often farcical, nevertheless give evidence of Anton Chekhov's perception of our precarious grip on our destinies, a perception which led him to explore the troubled, darkly comic world of his mature work. Adapted here by Yvonne Shafer, they reveal a quizzically amused sympathy for the life of the Russian moujik and the petit bourgeois, expressed in deft] y controlled episodes that range in mood from the melancholy to the wildly funny. They afford a valuable and rare opportunity to …

And A Nightingale Sang Program [1991], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 1990-1991 Season

By C. P. Taylor

Directed by Thomas A. Power

The Fight Master, Spring 1991, Vol. 14 Issue 1, The Society Of American Fight Directors

Fight Master Magazine

No abstract provided.

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 …

Beyond Therapy Program [1991], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 1990-1991 Season

by Christopher Durang

William Steele - Director

The Cutting Edge, March/April 1991, Vol. 2 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.