St. Scholastica Current Season

 Season of Lovers and Daughters
'11 - '12 CSS Theatre Season  . 

Resurrection Blues
By Arthur Miller
Directed by Tony Barrett
October 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, @ 7:30pm             October 16 and 23 @ 2pm

When a mysterious, mystical man starts to gather followers throughout the country, the local dictator is not at all amused.  Followers continue to amass, dedicated to the man who can perform miracles and glow.  Fearing a revolution, the elusive man is captured and sentenced to be executed.  Anticipating a potentially lucrative media deal, the dictator sells exclusive broadcast rights to the execution to an American media franchise.  This dark comedy situates itself between the amorality of modern media and questions of divinity faith.  Resurrection Blues is Arthur Miller's penultimate play.

 

Some Girl(s)
By Neil LaBute
Directed by Amanda Imberg, Shane May, and Emily Murphy
December  2, 3, 8, 9, 10 @ 7:30pm                 December 4 and 11 @ 2pm

A writer travels the country reconnecting with former girlfriends in an effort to see the women he once loved one last time, atone for the pain he may have caused, address the losses due to his actions, and maybe get a really good story to publish.  At times utterly clueless, at others calculating and manipulative, "Guy" shows us a portrait of a young writer as he faces the worst of himself and the best of what he left behind.

 

Iph...
A modern retelling of Euripedes' Iphegenia in Aulis by Colin Teevan 
Directed by Tammy Ostrander
February 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 @ 7:30pm           February 19 and 26 @ 2pm

Teevan's edgy interpretation of the Greek classic finds the Greek fleet amassed at Aulis, prepared to depart for Troy to retrieve Helen, but stalled by the lack of favorable winds.  In order to placate the gods and end the doldrums, Agamemnon is pressured by his brother, Menaleus (Helen's husband), to sacrifice his oldest daughter, Iphegenia.   Vainglory, familial loyalty, patriotism, and sacrifice collide at the brink of a conflict few of them fully understand.  A chorus of vigorous and lusty young women lend commentary on the action and the characters.

 

Pride and Prejudice
Adapted by Helen Jerome, based on the novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Merry Renn Vaughan
April 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 @ 7:30pm                   April 22 and 29 @ 2pm

"Mrs. Bennett is determined to get her daughters married. All five of them are likely looking girls in a period when a woman's one possible career is matrimony. To be a wife was success. Anything else was failure. Jane and her Mr. Bingley and Lydia with her Mr. Wickham are quite content with things as they are, but not Elizabeth! She actually refuses to marry Mr. Collins, whom she openly deplores, and Mr. Darcy, whom she secretly adores. The play is the story of the duel between Elizabeth and her pride and Darcy and his prejudice. Each gives in before the evening is over and pride and prejudice meet halfway." (description taken from Samuel French)

 

 

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