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2009 - 2010 Season The Exonerated Galileo The Comedy of Errors The Who's Tommy Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party Too Much Memory Uncommon Sense Series
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Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party
by Aaron Loeb
Directed by Kristin Wold
Studio Theatre
October 29 – November 8, 2009
 

A small town elementary school teacher outs Abraham Lincoln in the fourth grade Christmas pageant. The hilarious anarchy, marked by interludes of campy dances, is cleverly contained in a spontaneous structure wherein the audience votes each night on how the play will unfold. The fun and farcical surface story belies the play's insightful reflections on American history and identity.

October - November 2009
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thur
Fri
Sat
25
26
27
28
29
Preview
7:30 pm
30
Opening
Night
8 pm
31
8 pm
1
2
3
4
7:30 pm
5
7:30 pm
6
8 pm
7
2 pm &
8 pm
8
2 pm
9
10
11
12
13
14
 
Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht, Translated by Charles Laughton
Directed by Gary M. English
Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre
December 3 – 12, 2009
 

Galileo hears of a new invention, a telescope, and builds one for himself. With it, he confirms that the earth rotates around the sun. For this, he is summoned before a tribunal of the Inquisition where he is threatened with torture if he does not recant his findings. Bertolt Brecht puts the dilemma of one of history's greatest thinkers center stage; is it more important to cling to one's principles or save oneself to enable further contributions to knowledge?

December 2009
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thur
Fri
Sat
29
 
30
 
1
 
2
 
3
Preview
7:30 pm
4
Opening
Night
8 pm
5
8 pm
6
2 pm
7
 
8
9
7:30 pm
10
7:30 pm
11
8:00 pm
12
2 pm &
8 pm
13
 
14
15
16
17
18
19
 
The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Paul Mullins
Nafe Katter Theatre
February 25 – March 7, 2010
 

Two sets of identical twins are accidentally separated at birth. That's the comic spark that ignites Shakespeare's funniest and wildest comedy. When the sets of twins are unknowingly reunited in the same town, hilarity, mayhem and even romance ensue – all depicted as only Shakespeare can with brilliantly witty word-play and exquisite poetry in this physical, fast-paced and sexy episode of mistaken identity.

February - March 2010
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thur
Fri
Sat
21
22
23
24
25
Preview
7:30 pm
26
Opening
Night
8 pm
27
8 pm
28
1
2
7:30 pm
3
7:30 pm
4
7:30 pm
5
8 pm
6
2 pm &
8 pm
7
2 pm
8
9
10
11
12
13
 
Too Much Memory
by Keith Reddin and Meg Gibson
Directed by Helene Kvale
Studio Theatre
March 25 – April 3, 2010
 

Antigone won't take no for an answer – and it's going to cost her. She's the daughter of Oedipus and his own mother, now defying Creon, leader of Thebes, by insisting that her traitorous brother be given an honorable funeral. Despite being engaged to Creon's son, she'll face death if she won't back down. This smart retelling of the Fifth Century classic is set firmly in the present and doesn't take itself too seriously, with a wise-cracking chorus that describes the play as an “adaptation of an adaptation of a re-translation."

March - April 2010
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thur
Fri
Sat
21
22
23
24
25
Preview
7:30 pm
26
Opening
Night
8 pm
27
8 pm
28
2 pm
29
30
 
31
7:30 pm
1
7:30 pm
2
8 pm
3
2 pm &
8 pm
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
 
The Who's Tommy
Book by Pete Townshend & Des McAnuff
Additional Music & Lyrics by John Entwistle & Keith Moon
Based on The Who's Rock-Opera, Tommy
Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre
April 22 – May 1, 2010
 

Young Tommy witnesses a violent crime and is rendered deaf, dumb and blind. Tommy's incredible transformation from catatonia to stardom as a pinball celebrity is told through The Who's immortal songs including "Pinball Wizard," "See Me, Feel Me," "Listening to You" and "We're Not Gonna Take It." "Somewhere between arousal and a prayer, between raw blues and high opera: Pete Townshend's insistent, accelerating intro to "Pinball Wizard" is seven bars of the most exhilarating rock ever made." – L.A. Times

April - May 2010
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thur
Fri
Sat
18
19
20
21
22
Preview
7:30 pm
23
Opening
Night
8 pm
24
8 pm
25
2 pm
26
27
28
7:30 pm
29
7:30 pm
30
8 pm
1
2 pm &
8 pm
 

The Exonerated
by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
Directed by Dale AJ Rose
Nafe Katter Theatre
October 8 – 18, 2009
 

Wrongly convicted, these six people were condemned to death row for years. Their nightmarish stories are told here through interwoven scenes and monologues derived from actual court transcripts, interviews and letters. Although eventually freed by DNA and other evidence, these gripping stories depict the personal devastation that occurs when our justice system misfires. The survival stories of these six brave individuals are extraordinary, and provide a promise of hope and redemption.

October 2009
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thur
Fri
Sat
4
5
6
7
8
Preview
7:30 pm
9
Opening
Night
8 pm
10
8 pm
11
12
13
7:30 pm
14
7:30 pm
15
7:30 pm
16
8 pm
17
2 pm &
8 pm
18
2 pm
19
20
21
22
23
24
 


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