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Theatre Simpson 09/10 Season

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Back Story
Based on the characters created by Joan Ackerman
Directed by Jennifer Ross Nostrala
Barnum Studio Theatre
Performances—September 25-26, October 2-3 at 7:30 p.m. and September 27 and October 4 at 1:00 p.m.
Box office opens September 21.   

Back Story, written in nineteen scenes by eighteen different playwrights, was commissioned by the Actors Theatre of Louisville for the 2000 Humana Festival of New Plays.  Based on the idea that actors look for the "back story" of a character to help them create depth in a performance, Actors Theatre had Joan Ackerman write a short story (the back story) that would be the inspiration for a play.  Ainsely and Ethan Belcher were very young when their father went on two-week fishing trip to Alaska and decided not to come home.  The play is a series of snapshots that explores their personal development as young adults.  Through various misadventures, sibling rivalry, and dreams deferred, they discover that their bond with each other runs deep.  

 

Henry 5 (In 90 Minutes or Less!)
From William Shakespeare
Adapted and directed by Tom Woldt
Pote Theatre
Performances—November 20-21 at 7:30 p.m. and November 22 at 1:00 p.m.
Box office opens November 9.  

Soaring poetry.  Ferocious, filthy combat.  Heroic patriotism.  Degradation and humiliation in the “fog of war.”  Nationalistic slogan-making.  Ugly face-to-face throat-cutting.  William Shakespeare stirs all of this and more into his most popular “history” play (and his most compelling “war” play.)  Henry 5 achieves the nearly impossible, as both a “call-to-patriotism-because-war-is-necessary” play, and an anti-war-play.  Streamlined to 90 minutes and utilizing “promenade-style” staging in which audience and actors inhabit the same staging environment, join the Theatre Simpson company on a WILD RIDE exploration of power, gender, viciousness and forgiveness that is as timely right now as it was 400 years ago.

 

Spring Awakening
By Frank Wedekind, in a version by Ted Hughes
Directed by Ann Woldt
Pote Theatre
Performances—March 26-27 at 7:30 p.m. and March 28 at 1:00 p.m.
Box office opens March 8. tsboxoffice@simpson.edu

Written in 1891 by Frank Wedekind, a pioneer of the German expressionist movement, Spring Awakening has established itself as a timeless commentary on teenage angst and the enormous disconnect found between parents and children.  With its themes of rape, homosexuality, and teen pregnancy, Spring Awakening  is an unflinching indictment on society and how it deals with adolescent rebellion. 

 

Festival of Short Plays 2010
 Disturbing the Peace--Politics, Resistance, and the Work of Vaclav Havel
Barnum Studio Theatre
Performances—April 16-17 at 7:30 p.m. and April 18 at 1:00 p.m.
Box office opens April 6. 

Each year Theatre Simpson closes our season with a Festival of Short Plays.  This year, using the work of playwright, dissident, and former president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, we will investigate the intersection of politics and theatre.

 

Tickets are $10 for adults and $9 for non-Simpson students.  All performances are in Blank Performing Arts Center on the Simpson College campus.

Reservations can be made ONLINE at http://simpson.tix.com or by calling 961-1601 or emailing tsboxoffice@simpson.edu. 

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Last Updated: 11/5/09