Fine Arts Division
Theatre Productions
2009-2010 Theatre season:
The Persians by Aeschylus, Adapted by Ellen McLaughlin
Bradley Griffin, Director
Rebecca Klein, Stage Manager
The citizens of Persia await news of King Xerxes, who has led the Persian army into an ill-advised war. When at last the herald arrives, the news is not good. As the community grapples with the concept of defeat, their queen must prepare to welcome home her son, the disgraced king. Playwright/actor Ellen McLaughlin has adapted this oldest surviving Greek tragedy into a moving, poetic, and timely consideration of war, pride, and-ultimately-loss.
Tuesday-Friday, October 6-9, 7:30 pm, Saturday, October 10, 2 and 7:30 pm
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond
Cathy Thomas-Grant, Director
Brittney Reimert, Stage Manager
With the Pepperdine University Orchestra, Tony Cason, Conductor
This heart-pounding musical masterpiece of tonsorial terror and culinary crime tells of a barber who returns to Victorian London seeking revenge against the corrupt judge who exiled him and ravished his young wife. When his thirst for blood expands to include his unfortunate customers, his resourceful neighbor downstairs soon has Londoners lining up in droves to sample her mysterious new meat pies!
Thursday-Saturday, November 12-14 and 19-21, 7:30 pm
Matinee: Sunday, November 15, 2 pm
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Jason Chanos, Director
Sarah Kennon, Stage Manger
Subtitled "a tragicomedy in two acts," this play is sure to get your existential juices flowing. In the best tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd, its two main characters wait...and wait...and wait for the mysterious title character. Who is he, and will he ever show up? Thanks to its cryptically bare structure, the play's meaning is wide open to interpretation. Is it Biblical? Freudian? Political? Perhaps only Godot knows for sure.
Tuesday-Friday, January 26-29, 7:30 pm
Saturday, January 30, 2 and 7:30 pm
A Flea in Her Ear
A New Version of Georges Feydeau's Farce
by David Ives
Bradley Griffin, Director
Rebecca Klein, Stage Manager
One pair of suspenders, a suspicious wife, a jealous Spaniard, a couple of conniving servants, and a master of the house who happens to resemble the bellboy at a local hotel add up to mayhem and misunderstanding in this hilarious new adaptation of Feydeau's classic French farce. Set in fin-de-siècle Paris, the play combines breathless action and brilliant wit as the characters track that most elusive of prey-true love.
Tuesday-Saturday, April 6-10, 7:30 pm
Our 2008-2009 Theatre season included:
Goodness by Michael Redhill
Cathy Thomas-Grant, Director
Thoroughly Modern Millie Book: Richard Henry Morris Music: Jeanine Tesori
Bill Szobody, Director
The Roads to Home by Horton Foote
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, translation Martin Crimp
Cathy Thomas-Grant, Director
We encourage you to call the box office at (310) 506-4522 for ticket information for any of our events and highly recommend that you check out the quality of work we do in the Theatre Department.
