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MENDOCINO COLLEGE THEATRE ARTS DEPARTMENT
2008-2009 Season

  

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Little Shop of Horrors
Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken

Directed by Les Pfutzenreuter
 
July 9-August 2, 2009
at the Ukiah Playhouse, 1041 Low Gap Road
Call 462-9226 for tickets and information.

The 1960's doo-wop style musical comedy about a nerdy florist shop worker, Seymour, who raises a giant homicidal plant!  Filled with singing, dancing and laughing (& laughing gas)!  A co-production with Ukiah Players Theatre.

AGE RECOMMENDATIONS:
Little Shop of Horrors is appropriate for audiences ages 9 and older.

Broken Open:
Geography of Heart

original stories by members of the ensemble crafted into a performance 
by director Kate Magruder
 
August 7 & 8, 2009
at the Ukiah Playhouse, 1041 Low Gap Road
Call 462-9226 for tickets and information.

This summer's community-based ensemble class production explores the experience odf being "broken open" by life, and how we emerge from suffering and challenge with a growing wisdom and deeper capacity for love and laughter.  For more information about the performance and / or how to participate in the class, contact Kate Magruder at 489-7344 or e-mail katemag@pacific.net.

AGE RECOMMENDATIONS:
Little Shop of Horrors is appropriate for audiences ages 9 and older.


Our Country's Good

by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Reid Edelman

October 29-November 8, 2009

Mendocino College Center Theatre
1000 Hensley Creek Road, Ukiah

Call 468-3172 for tickets and information.

Based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally, this play tells the story of a group of British convicts and their guards, transported to Australia in 1788.  Faced with brutal conditions and shattered spirits, one British marine lieutenant embarks on the unlikely endeavor of producing a play.  His actors are the English convicts.  Few of them can read, let alone act.  As one critic wrote, the play "is a triumph...a tribute to the transforming power of drama."

AGE RECOMMENDATIONS:
Our Country's Good is recommended for mature audiences, ages 14 and older.  

The Ticking Clock Project
by Jody Gehrman
directed by Rose Bell

January 21, 22 & 23, 2010
Mendocino College Center Theatre
1000 Hensley Creek Road, Ukiah

For more information, go to  http://www.tickingclockproject.com/ 
or e-mail info@tickingclockproject.comg

The Ticking Clock is a theatrical project exploring the choices women make during their childbearing years—and, on occasion, the choices that are made for them. After interviewing women from a wide range of different backgrounds and experiences, Jody Gehrman will write a script made up primarily of monologues, and Rose Bell will direct the play’s debut.

AGE RECOMMENDATIONS:
The Ticking Clock Project is recommended for mature audiences ages 14 and older.



The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
directed by Reid Edelman
March 26-April 3, 2010
Mendocino College Center Theatre
1000 Hensley Creek Road, Ukiah
Call 468-3172 for tickets and information.

Two identical twins and their two servants (also identical twins) are separated in a ship-wreck.  When, years later, they all show up in the same town, mistaken identities abound.  This rollicking comedic romp is one of Shakespeare's most delightful and accessible plays.  Appropriate for ages 8 and up.  
Not recommended for those who dislike hearty laughter.



8th Annual Festival of New Plays
Friday & Saturday, May 14 & 15, 2010
 Mendocino College Little Theatre

Student-directed world-premiere productions of scripts by local playwrights!  For more information, call 468-3172. 

AGE RECOMMENDATIONS:
Some of the plays may explore mature themes.  Recommended for ages 13 and up.