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DSU Theatre Announces a Thrilling 2014/15 Lineup!
After taking a production to the Fringe Festival in Scotland and placing as finalists in the American College Theatre Festival for region 8 last year, DSU Theatre students are ready to capture the hearts of the community once more. DSU Theatre invites you to join us for the best lineup of live theatre productions we have ever offered, with the talent to match! Our students are progressing at an outstanding rate and their talents are worthy of everyone’s attention.
Shakespeare, Mozart, Blanche, Stanley, Stella (Stella!) and the beloved Don Quixote are all in the lineup for this year’s productions at DSU. Get your tickets now, they are guaranteed to go fast for such a great season.
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (A Contemporary Interpretation)
September 18-20, 23-27, Eccles Black Box, Directed By Kelly Thomas, Rated PG-13
Much Ado About Nothing is one of William Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies. Written around 1598, the play is about a young woman wrongly accused of being unchaste who is later reconciled with her accusing lover. It is also about a second couple – Beatrice and Benedick - two witty, bright individuals who swear they will never fall in love. (Schmoop.com)
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer, November 6-8, 11-15, Rated PG
Eccles Mainstage, Directed by A Special Guest Artist
In Association with Samuel French, Inc.
The play explores the rivalry between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, the court composer for the Emperor of Austria in the late eighteenth century. Shaffer became interested in the relationship between the two composers after learning about Mozart’s mysterious death. Although failing to find evidence that Salieri murdered Mozart, Shaffer admits, in an interview with Roland Gelatt, that “by then the cold eyes of Salieri were staring at me. . . . The conflict between virtuous mediocrity and feckless genius took hold of my imagination, and it would not leave me alone.” Critics have praised the play’s craftsmanship and its penetrating psychological study of the effects of success and failure and the search for spirituality. (Bookrags.com)
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, January 29-31, February 3-7, PG-13
Eccles Mainstage, Directed by Michael Harding
In Association with Samuel French, Inc.
Widely considered a landmark play, A Streetcar Named Desire deals with a culture clash between two symbolic characters, Blanche DuBois, a pretentious, fading relic of the Old South, and Stanley Kowalski, a rising member of the industrial, urban immigrant class. The play presents Blanche DuBois, a fading but still-attractive Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask alcoholism and delusions of grandeur. Her poise is an illusion she presents to shield others, but most of all herself, from her reality, and an attempt to make herself still attractive to new male suitors.
Man of La Mancha the Musical, February 26-28, March 3-7, Rated PG
Eccles Mainstage, Directed by Mark Houser
In Association with Tams-Whitmark Library, Inc
Written by Dale Wasserman, Music by Mitch Leigh, Lyrics by Joe Darion
Man of La Mancha is a remarkable show and one of the great theatre successes of our time. This is a play-within-a-play, based on Cervantes’ “Don Quixote.” We have a poignant story of a dying old man whose impossible dream takes over his mind. It’s All the Same, Dulcinea, I’m Only Thinking of Him, The Impossible Dream, I Really Like Him and Little Bird remain in your thoughts and in your soul well after you see the show.
His dream is Everyman’s dream. His tilting at windmills is Everyman’s great adventure. Somehow, the footlights disappear, time is telescoped and the “Man of La Mancha” speaks for humankind. (www.tamswhitmark.com)
$10 General Admission, $5 for all WSCD High school students and employees, $5 tickets for groups of 15+. All productions start promptly at 7:30 pm (house opens at 7 pm) in the Black Box and Main Stage Theatres located in the Eccles Fine Art Center on the Dixie State University campus in downtown St. George, Utah. For tickets and detailed information call the Box office at 435-652-7800 or book your tickets directly over the web by visiting www.dsutix.com. Visit DSC Theatre Publicity on Facebook for sneak previews, special commentary and more. We’ll see you at the Theatre!
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