News Releases
For additional information, contact Teresa Satori, University Relations Specialist, at 920-683-4713, or e-mail teresa.satori@uwc.edu
Click here for UW System News
UW-Manitowoc Announces 2009-10 Theatre Season
The University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc is pleased to announce its 2009-2010 University Theatre season under the direction of John Wright, Assistant Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts.
To kick off the season Wednesday, November 4 through Saturday, November 7, the University Theatre will present Alien Voices, Radio Plays: A Staging of Radio Drama Live. This production will include “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells, and “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” by Jules Verne. Both plays were adapted by John de Lancie from scripts by Nat Segaloff.
The scripts will be presented as “live radio plays,” with actors on-stage performing with scripts & microphones, creating multiple voices and characters for these timeless genre classics. Sound effects & music will also be produced live on the stage, with foley artists and sound effects visibly created as part of the production. Alien Voices was conceived as a theatrical project off-Broadway by Star Trek veterans Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie.
Each show will be produced twice over the four-night production run, with The Time Machine being performed on Wednesday and Friday, and Journey to the Center of the Earth on Thursday & Saturday. General admission will be $8.00 and with seniors and students $5.00.
Durang on Theatrewill take the stage Wednesday, March 31 through Saturday, April 3, 2010. This production will include three one-act plays by modern American theatre’s preeminent satirist, Christopher Durang. The Actor’s Nightmare explores the classic nightmare of an actor who finds himself on-stage and has no clue where he is or what he is doing. For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls is Durang’s satiric parody of The Glass Menagerie, and Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room skewers the world of playwriting and the theatre “business.”
This production will be presented in intimate Black Box Theatre arrangement. General admission will be $8.00 and with seniors and students $5.00.
Lastly, Stage Directions, a one-act workshop by Israel Horowitz, will be presented Thursday, April 29 through Saturday, May 1, 2010, also in Black Box Theatre arrangement.
A man and two women meet after attending a funeral, a time when so much needs to be articulated and understood. And yet, somehow, they cannot bridge the gulf of self-consciousness that separates them, and can only speak at each other, and via the stage directions which are normally meant to be unheard by the audience. The effect is oblique speech, as though they were present and yet not present, but what is unspoken becomes eloquently clear—and, in the end, reveals the deeper truths that direct statement could only hint at. All tickets will be $5.00.
The University Theatre had originally intended to perform The Crucible as a part of this year’s season, but that production will be moved to a subsequent season.”
All shows will be held at 7:30 p.m. in UW-Manitowoc’s University Theatre located in Lakeside Hall at 705 Viebahn Street, Manitowoc. Tickets will be available prior to each performance, or at the door. UW-Manitowoc students are admitted for free to all shows.
Auditions for Alien Voices will be held in early September, with details to be announced soon. For more information, contact Wright at 683-4722 or by e-mail at john.wright@uwc.edu.
Phone (920) 683-4700 • Fax (920) 683-4776 • E-mail manadmit@uwc.edu
705 Viebahn Street Manitowoc, WI 54220-6699
TTY (608)265-5766 • WTRS 1-800-947-6644
|
