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The Man Who Came To Dinner Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2008-2009 Season

By Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

Directed by Thomas Power

This production was a Participating entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KC/ACTF).

Smokey Joe's Cafe, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2008-2009 Season

Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll and rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiver and Mike Stoller.

The Cutting Edge, September/October 2008, Vol. 18 Issue 5, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

Fool For Love Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2008-2009 Season

By Sam Shepard

Directed by Bill Steele

This production was a Participating entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KC/ACTF).

2008 - 2009 Season Brochure, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

Theatre and Dance Annual Brochures

Annual promotional piece of the upcoming season's shows.

The Cutting Edge, July/August 2008, Vol. 18 Issue 4, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

My Way: A Musical Tribute To Frank Sinatra, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2008 Summer Theatre

No abstract provided.

Proof, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2008 Summer Theatre

The play concerns Catherine, the daughter of Robert, a recently deceased mathematical genius and professor at the University of Chicago, and her struggle with mathematical genius and mental illness. Catherine had cared for her father through a lengthy mental illness. https://www.lewisfamilyplayhouse.com/pdfs/blackbox/Proof_character_descriptions.pdf

The Fight Master, Spring/Summer 2008, Vol. 31 Issue 1, The Society Of American Fight Directors

Fight Master Magazine

No abstract provided.

Indian Blood, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2008 Summer Theatre

The play takes place in the mid-1940s. 16-year-old Eddie blames his tendencies towards bad behavior on his "Indian blood," as he's been told there's a Seneca Indian somewhere in his family tree.

June 2008 - Volume Vii, Number 2, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VII Number 2 features articles on the closing of the Village Theatre and welcoming new faculty Nicholas Shaw.

The Cutting Edge, May/June 2008, Vol. 18 Issue 3, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

Peter Pan, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2007-2008 Season

An adaptation of J. M. Barrie's story about a boy who never grew up. The three children of the Darling family receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them toNever Land, where an ongoing war between Peter's gang of rag-tag runaways and the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046183/plotsummary

Belly Dance: A Cultural And Historical Introduction And Lecture & Live Dancing! Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2007-2008 Season

Naya's Trance Belly Dance

Artistic Director Jessica Jane Means

Miss Witherspoon, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2007-2008 Season

A woman named Veronica, who is a recent suicide, has to go back to the world of the living to cleanse her “brown tweedy aura” and learn the values of life. She findsherself in Bardo, a Tibetan Buddhist netherworld and the place where you wait to be reincarnated. She is not enthusiastic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Witherspoon

The Cutting Edge, March/April 2008, Vol. 18 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

Last Easter Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2007-2008 Season

By Bryony Lavery

Directed by Thomas Power

This production was a Participating entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KC/ACTF).

Dance Concert 2008: Gotta Dance!, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2007-2008 Season

No abstract provided.

City Of Angels Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre, University Of Southern Maine School Of Music

Programs 2007-2008 Season

Book by Larry Gelbart

Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by David Zippel

Directed by Wil Kilroy

Musical Director, Edward Reichert

This production was entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) 40.

The Hobbit

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2008 performance of The Hobbit based on the book by J. R. R. Tolkien adapted for theater by Patricia Gray.

The Hobbit is the story of hobbit Bilbo Baggins who is enlisted by the wizard Gandalf to aid a band of dwarves reclaim their mountain home from a great dragon.

The Cutting Edge, January/February 2008, Vol. 18 Issue 1, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

Caucasian Chalk Circle, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2007-2008 Season

he Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brechtbegins with a prologue, a play-within-the-play, concerning a dispute between two groups of peasants as to which one will take control over a valley abandoned after the Nazis invaded in World War Two. http://www.supersummary.com/caucasian-chalk-circle/summary/

The Fight Master, Fall/Winter 2008, Vol. 31 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors

Fight Master Magazine

No abstract provided.

To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday Program [2008], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2007-2008 Season

Written by Michael Brady

Directed by Kristen Peters

This production was entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) 40.

Theatre History At The University Of North Dakota, Loren Liepold

UND Departmental Histories

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.

Sati In Philadelphia: The Widow(S) Of Malabar, Jeffrey H. Richards

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Enmasking Beckett: The Use Of The Commedia Dell'arte In Waiting For Godot, Shaun Sheley

Theses

In Enmasking Beckett: The Use of the Commedia dell'Arte in Waiting for Godot, Shaun Sheley explores how the traditional Italian theatrical form of Commedia dell'Arte can inform and enhance character development and physical expression in Samuel Beckett’s seminal play Waiting for Godot. Drawing on his experience directing a 2007 university production, Sheley demonstrates how the fixed archetypes and physical vocabulary of Commedia dell'Arte can be applied to Beckett’s characters—Vladimir, Estragon, Pozzo, and Lucky—to support their stylized, non-naturalistic portrayal and Beckett’s own directive for the play to be performed "balletically."

The thesis contextualizes Waiting for Godot within Beckett’s broader …

Manuel Molins: Una Altra Ofèlia I Els Fantasmes De Shakespeare, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

L'apropiació i reinscripció que de Hamlet ha fet Manuel Molins, titulada Una altra Ofèlia (2001, estrenada al Teatre Rialto de València el 2004), comença, com a l'obra de Shakespeare, amb l'aparició d'un fantasma. A la primera de les nou escenes, el personatge d'Ofèlia explica a la falstaffiana I pitonissa I herborista Dida (personatge síntesi que és el resum de molts personatges shakespearians) un somni que ha tingut i en el transcurs del qual ha presenciat la manifestació d'un espectre en l'esplanada del castell. D'alguna manera, des del moment que comença l’obra, Ofèlia sembla haver usurpat el paper de Hamlet, ja …

Dance Usm! Program [2007], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2007-2008 Season

Directed by Maria Tzianabos

December 2007 - Volume Vii, Number 1, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VII Number 1 includes articles on the new Doudna Fine Arts Center and also an obituary of Ernest Glendon Gabbard.