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.
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.
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.