2009 Theatre Season
An Absolute Turkey by Georges Feydeau
Georges Feydeau’s elegantly complex farce is brought to life in this witty and acutely funny translation. Feydeau, the supreme master of farce, displays all his dramatic tricks as his characters are pulled back and forth spinning dizzily in a surrealistic climax of complications. In French the title is Le Dindon – the turkey or the dupe. And the dupe, or the fool, is what every marriage has at least one of. Liaisons are arranged and bungled in a shady hotel and bedtime leads to bedlam.
Attention: adult situations.
Thursday, October 15, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Friday, October 16, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 17, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 18, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
Remick Heritage Center, Strosacker Theatre
$10 adults; $5 seniors 62+; Alma College staff, students, and youth 18 and under are free; seating is reserved
One-Act Play Festival~2009
Five One-Act plays are presented for each performance:
Token To The Moon by Brian Christopher Williams
Directed by Joshua Olgine '09
Still Life by Seth Kramer
Directed by Meekin Udell '10
The Universal Language by David Ives
Directed by Ashley Sawatzke '06
Do Over by Frederick Stroppel
Directed by Michael C. Sheldon
Ludlow Fair by Lanford Wilson
Directed by Joe Jezewski
Attention: explicit language and adult situations.
Friday, December 4, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 6, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
Remick Heritage Center, Strosacker Theatre
$10 adults; $5 seniors 62+; Alma College staff, students, and youth 18 and under are free; seating is reserved
2010 Theatre Season
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
Originally produced at Actors Theater of Louisville, Crimes of the Heart won the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Crimes is set five years after Hurricane Camille in the Magrath family kitchen in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the action unfolds during what the youngest sister calls “a bad day.” It is the story of how three sisters escape the past to seize the future – but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the play has ended.
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
Friday, February 19, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 20, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 21, 2010, 3:00 p.m.
Remick Heritage Center, Strosacker Theatre
$10 adults; $5 seniors 62+; Alma College staff, students, and youth 18 and under are free; seating is reserved
Book of Days by Lanford Wilson
Book of Days was first produced at Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, Michigan and was the winner of Best Play Award by the American Critics Association. Wilson sets the action in the small town of Dublin, Missouri, which is dominated by a cheese plant, a fundamentalist church and a community theater – a close-knit community where everyone knows everyone’s business and secrets are hard to keep. When the owner of the cheese plant dies mysteriously in a hunting accident, Ruth, his bookkeeper, suspects murder. Cast as Joan of Arc in a local production of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan, Ruth takes on the attributes of her fictional character and launches into a one-woman campaign to see justice done. This tornado of a play propels you through its events like a page-turning mystery.
Attention: explicit language and adult situations.
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
Friday, April 9, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 10, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 3:00 p.m.
Remick Heritage Center, Strosacker Theatre
$10 adults; $5 seniors 62+; Alma College staff, students, and youth 18 and under are free; seating is reserved
