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NCC Theatre Season Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
Take a Stand
Compilation and Direction by Ron Heneghan
Using Contemporary and classical drama and poetry, this theatrical presentation explores the valor and pain of the individual versus the collective.
Thursday, September 27th, 11:00 am ~ Kopecek Hall ~Lab Theatre
Friday, September 28th, 7:00 pm ~ Kopecek Hall ~ Lab Theatre
Sunday, September 30th, 2:00 pm ~ South Side ~ Fowler Center
Thursday, October 11th, 12:30 pm & 7:00 pm ~ Monroe Campus
To bring this play to your High School, contact NCC Theatre Department, 610-861-5091
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The Crucible
By: Arthur Miller
Director: Norman Roberts
Although Arthur Miller's play has often been seen as a thinly veiled parable about heroism in the face of anticommunist witch hunts in 1950's America, it is also very much a play about the ways in which belief overwhelms observable reality. John Proctor, not particularly heroic person, has martyrdom thrust upon him as he is caught between opposing beliefs: the frenzy of the young women who see witches everywhere, and the Puritan hierarchy of seventeenth century Massachusetts, trying to establish a godly state in an unfriendly and chaotic world. In this play, what the young women and the judges believe about Proctor, his wife, and the other accused witches matters more than their evident innocence. What they believe to be true supersedes reality.
Friday, October 26th, 8:00 pm ~ Lipkin Theatre
Saturday, October 27th, 7:00 pm ~ Lipkin Theatre
Wednesday, October 31st, 11:00 am ~ Lipkin theatre
Friday, November 2nd, 7:00 pm ~ Lipkin Theatre
Saturday, November 3rd, 7:00 pm ~ Lipkin Theatre
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A Collection of Timepieces
Concept and Direction by Jaye Beetem
The Lab Theatre Ensemble Workshop is an opportunity to experience a nontraditional theatre event created especially for NCC by student, performers, writers and designers. Text, sound, images, and original works: both scientific and poetic, are the topic of TIME.
This piece, presented by an ensemble of NCC performers makes for an interesting and unusual evening of theatre.
Wednesday, December 5th, 7:00 pm ~ Lab Theatre
Thursday, December 6th, 11:00 am ~ Lab Theatre
Friday, December 7th, 7:00 pm ~ Lab Theatre
Saturday, December 8th, 7:00 pm ~ Monroe Campus
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Happy Holidaze!
Compilation and Direction by Ron Heneghan
Scenes of laughter, warmth, hysteria, and love for all!
Thursday, December 6th, 7:00 pm ~ Lab Theatre
Friday, December 7th, 7:00 pm ~ Monroe Campus
Sunday, December 9th, 2:00 pm ~ Monroe Campus
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Stuff Happens
By David Hare
Director Bob Mundhenk
David Hare calls Stuff Happens a "history play'. Like Shakespeare's history plays, it constructs a narrative based on the available historical record, with the understanding that the record is frustratingly incomplete and require interpolation as well as interpretation. The history that Hare chronicles is that of the decision of the United States and British governments to go to war in Iraq. Just as the play attempts to interpret the facts that are available, it is about historical figures taking action on the basis of available facts and deeply held beliefs. And, because the play takes no political stance, it forces the audience to draw its own conclusions based on the evidence the play provides. It is thus a play about the impossibility of being absolutely sure of the reality of the "facts" upon which we must proceed in life.
Wednesday, February 20th, 12:00 noon ~ Lab Theatre
Thursday, February 21st, 7:00 pm ~ Lab Theatre
Friday, February 22nd, 7:00 pm ~ Lab Theatre
Saturday, February 23rd, 7:00 pm ~ Lab Theatre
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The Great Collision of Monday Last & A Clear View of An Irish Mist
By; Ray Bradbury
Director: Kristopher Yoder
A evening of Ray Bradbury's one acts:
The Great Collision of Monday Last; (play description to be announced shortly)
A Clear View of and Irish Mist; the regulars at Heeber Finn's Irish Pub are turned topsy-turvy by a traveling salesman peddling a simple "machine"- encouraging them to "THINK".
Friday, March 7th, 7:00 pm ~ Monroe Campus
Saturday, March 8th, 7:00 pm ~ Monroe Campus
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Fuente Ovejuna
By Lope DeVega
Director: Ron Heneghan
Fuente Ovejuna ("The Sheep Spring") is based upon an actual historical incident that took place in the village of the same name in Castile in 1476. While under the command of the Order of Calatrava, a commander, Fernan Gomez de Guzman, mistreated the villagers who banded together and killed him. When a magistrate was sent by King Ferdinand II of Aragon to investigate, the villages responded by saying "Fuente Ovejuna did it."
If our season contends that facts are somehow negotiable, that belief trumps reality, perhaps this play stands as a rallying cry to those who are in no position to argue facts. They are tortured for the truth. They model the behavior that the noted anthropologist Margaret Mead identifies: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
This production will be presented using both English and Spanish.
Lope de Vaga was a Spanish Baroque playwright and poet. His reputation in the world of Spanish letters is second only to that of Cervantes and he is estimated to have written between 1,500 and 2,500 fully-fledged plays-of which some 425 have survived until the modern day.
Friday, April 4th, 7:00 pm ~ Lipkin Theatre
Saturday, April 5th, 7:00 pm ~ Lipkin Theatre
Wednesday, April 9th, 11:00 am ~ Lipkin Theatre
Friday, April 11th, 7:00 pm ~ Lipkin Theatre
Saturday, April 12th, 7:00 pm ~ Lipkin Theatre
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Admission to all NCC productions is free, however, a donation of canned goods and/or a donation to NCC's Theatre Scholarship fund is appreciated.
For reservations please call 610-861-5524 or
e-mail ncc_theatre_tickets@northampton.edu
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