The Studio
Series offers a variety of
one act plays produced fall and spring semesters next door to the
Stage Center in room F-109.
Schedule
for the Fall 2008-Spring 2009 Year
Studio Theatre, F 109, 7:30 PM
September 23, 24, 25, 26,
2008
Sangre
de Atole
(a new play) by Michael
Villareal
Repaying
your coyote when you first migrate to the United States
can be difficult.
Amparo and Mari are well aware of the challenges in finding work and
making the
rent. They provide recent immigrants a place to stay, until they can
get on
their feet. Their
most recent arrivals
prove to be more taxing, as one could expect with 6 people to a studio
apartment. The
tension builds on both
sides, leaving them to wonder – Was the
move worth the turmoil it has on
their personal relationships? What
was
it all for, really?
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October 28, 29, 30, 31, 2008
An Evening with
Chekhov.
The
Bear by
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Michael Frayn
“Mrs.
Popoff, widow of a
landowner, has vowed never to remarry and abjures the company of men
forever. Then
Smirnoff, one of her late
husband’s creditors, forces himself into her presence --they
seemed groomed for
quarreling and they do to the point of…a duel.”
(Samuel French, Inc.)
The
Proposal by Anton Chekhov, adapted by
Michael Frayn
The story tells
the efforts
of a nervous and excitable man who starts to propose to an attractive
young
woman, but who gets into a tremendous quarrel over a boundary
line.” (Samuel
French, Inc.)
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Feb. 10, 11, 12, 13 - 2009
Winner of the
2009
Ronald Williams Playwright Competition
Queer
Strindberg: A
play in two acts by Max Gulias
Queer
Strindberg
is a play about gender and sexual identity in the context of the life,
personality, and character of two controversial historical and
intellectual
figures of Swedish and European history, August Strindberg and Queen
Kristina
Wasa. Queer Strindberg brings out
the
best, and the worst—assess both the benefits and
costs—of the creative mind,
and finds a home for both August and Kristina in the
“text,” performance, and
mind of the audience, of theatre itself.
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February 17, 18, 19, 20 - 1009
Pieces of Eight:
Pure Sterling
Rich texts,
luscious
language, and exquisite theatricality comprise this anthology directed
by NEIU
Communication, Media, and Theatre graduate students. This production
entertains, surprises, amuses and bemuses its audience.
Past
Schedule for the Fall 2007-Spring 2008 Year
Cloud
Tectonics by
Jose Rivera
September
25 and 27
Directed by
Student: Patrick Garone
Finding the Sun by
Edward Albee
October
23 and 25
Directed by
Student Hugo Rosado
Miss Julie by
August Stridberg
November
13 and 15
Directed by
Alum Bryan Avis
Joe & Stew’s
Theatre of Brotherly Love and
Financial Success
by Jacquelyn Reingold
Oedi by Rich
Orloff
February
5 & 7
Directed
byAlum Christopher Leonard
New Play – winner of playwright competition
March 11 and 13
Directed by
alum Michael Villerreal
C.M.T. Student Showcase
April 22
The
Studio Series past during the Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 semesters were:
If you attended one of these performances this past year we
hope you'll join us again next year.