Current Season

Nickel and Dimed

by Joan Holden

Based on NICKEL AND DIMED, ON (NOT) GETTING BY IN AMERICA by Barbara Ehrenreich

Sept. 28 at 7:30, Sept. 30 at 2:00 and Oct. 1-3 at 7:30
Fowler Center, Black Box Theater
Directed by Jeff McLaughlin 

The Story

Can a middle-class woman survive when she suddenly has live on a job that won't pay the rent. This is just one of the surprises for an acclaimed author, who set out to research low-wage life firsthand. This play examines the life many working Americans lead, and makes us angry that anyone should have to live it.
 

Boeing Boeing

by Marc Camoletti


Adapted by Beverley Cross and Francis Evans

Nov. 9 &10, 12-14 @ 7:30
Fowler Center, Drama Theater
Directed by Molly Simpson 

The Story

This 1960's French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard, who has French, German and American fiancées, each beautiful airline hostesses with frequent "layovers". He keeps "one up, one down and one pending" until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris and Bernard's apartment at the same time.
 

The Voice of the Prairie

by John Olive

Feb. 22 & 23, 25-27 @ 7:30
Fowler Center, Drama Theater
Directed by Lisa Bohn

The Story

It is the early 1890’s and itinerant storytellers are the voices of the prairie. Years later, a young story teller carrying on the storytelling tradition is discovered by a radio entrepreneur and becomes famous on the radio as the “Voice of the Prairie” telling stories of a hobo named Poppy and a blind girl named Frankie.


 

Rhinoceros

by Eugene Ionesco


Translated by Derek Prouse

April 12 & 13, 15-17 @ 7:30
Fowler Center, Drama Theater
Directed by Tim Bohn

The Story

The sublime is confused with the ridiculous. One roaring citizen who becomes a rhinoceros and proceeds to trample on the social order besieges a small town. As more citizens are transformed into rhinoceroses, the trampling becomes overwhelming, and more and more citizens become rhinoceroses. One sane man, Berenger remains, unable to change his form and identity.