Theatre & Performance Media Program 2023-2024 Season (Main Stage Performances)
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Blood on a Cat’s Neck
October 12–15, 2023
By Rainer Werner Fassbinder, directed by David Pellegrini with choreography by Alycia Bright Holland Fine Arts Instructional Center’s Proscenium Theater
Phoebe Zeitgeist has been sent to the earth from a distant star to write an eyewitness account of human democracy. But, although she has learned the words, she doesn’t understand the human language. So begins the first lines of Blood on a Cat’s Neck by filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the most significant director of postwar German cinema. Before his brief career in which he directed over forty films within the span of fifteen years, Fassbinder was active in theatre, developing experimental techniques which have come to be known as “Anti-Theater. This concept, however, is misleading, because in plays such as this, Fassbinder forged his unique and always entertaining and sometimes uproarious blend of Hollywood melodrama, social criticism, and avant-garde traditions.
Carrie The Musical
November 30-December 3, 2023
Directed by student director Liv Skerry with Music by Michael Gore, Lyrics by Dean Pitchford, Book by Lawrence D. Cohen and based on the novel by Stephen King.
Fine Arts Instructional Center’s Delmonte Bernstein Studio Theater
A small-town high school girl discovers she has telekinetic powers and uses them to get back at her bullying high school classmates and her tyrannical mother, in this musical adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel and the film based on it. Adapted from Stephen King's 1974 novel, "Carrie the Musical" follows a teenage outcast who longs to fit in. At school, she’s bullied by the popular crowd, and virtually invisible to everyone else. At home, she's dominated by her loving but cruelly controlling mother. What none of them know is that Carrie’s just discovered she’s got a special power, and if pushed too far, she’s not afraid to use it. With a book by Lawrence D. Cohen, lyrics by Dean Pitchford, and music by Michael Gore, Carrie The Musical the classic underdog story, with a twist.
Blithe Spirit
February 27–March 3, 2024
Directed by J.J. Cobb; Written by Noël Coward
Fine Arts Instructional Center’s Delmonte Bernstein Studio Theater
Noël Coward’s most ‘spirited’ comedy. Novelist Charles Condomine tempts fate by inviting famed clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, into his home to conduct a séance. Having no idea that the cynical writer is using the session as research for his next book, the eccentric Arcati accidentally summons the ghost of Mr. Condomine’s first wife, to the utmost distress of his second. Beware levitating candelabra, plummeting picture frames, and inexplicable mishaps.
Script to Screen: Eastern Film Project 2024
April 26 & 27, 2024
Fine Arts Instructional Center’s Proscenium Theater
Script to Screen: the Eastern 2024 Film Project is an original production written, filmed and acted by students in collaboration with Communications, Film and Theatre professor Brian Day. A small group of students will develop and complete the story and finalize the script during Fall 2023 semester. Student crews and actors will then spend a portion of the Spring 2024 semester producing and editing an original film, which will be screened as a main stage production in the Proscenium Thrust Theater at the end of our 2023-2024 Academic Year.
