2008-09
SPRING SEMESTER
The Father
by August Strindberg
translated by Harry G. Carlson
directed by Brooke O'Harra
ROOKE THEATRE
Thurs-Sat, April 23-25 at 8 pm and
Sat & Sun, April 25 & 26 at 2 pm
Voicemail reservations accepted beginning April 13. Please speak clearly and leave a phone number as all reservations are confirmed.
Box Office will be staffed beginning Mon, April 20, 3-6 pm Monday through Friday and one hour prior to each performance.
Ticket prices: $5.00 general, $3.00 students and senior citizens.
For reservations: (413) 538-2406
or email: rookeboxoffice@gmail.com
Seating is limited.
It is frequently suggested that Swedish Modernist playwright August Strindberg (1849 -1912) is an absolute misogynist whose women characters are portrayed as sly tigresses. Is this what he is conveying? In The Father Strindberg pits wife against husband. They wage war in their drawing room; it is a fight to the death. Come see the woman of Mount Holyoke perform this provocative, if not perverse, play about marriage.
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 Paul Sorvino actor and director, will teach a master class in acting for selected students from the Mount Holyoke Theatre Department.
Observation of the class is open to the public. Admission $5.00
Seating is limited, reservations encouraged.
Please call 413-538-2406.
April 6, 7-9 pm
Rooke Theatre
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Lighting Designers! Set Designers! Costume Designers!
Five College, Inc. & Mt. Holyoke College Theatre Department present:
COLOR & LIGHT: MIXING IT UP
An introduction to the art of color mixing using light as the medium. See a demonstration of the subtle ways in which tinted, colored light can change the eye’s perception of the color of an object.
ALL VISUAL ARTISTS INVITED TO ATTEND!
Sunday February 15th, 3pm-4:30pm
Rooke Theatre, Mt. Holyoke College
Free and Open to All
Lecturer: Beverly Emmons
Beverly Emmons has designed for Broadway, Off Broadway, regional theatre, dance, and opera in the US and abroad. Her Broadway credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Passion, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Hapgood, High Rollers, Stepping Out, The Elephant Man, The Dresser, and Doonesbury. She has regularly designed lighting for Robert Wilson; most notably in America, Einstein on the Beach and Civil Wars Pt. V. She has been awarded 6 Tony nominations, the 1975 Lumen Award, 1984 and 1986 Bessies, and a 1980 Obie for Distinguished Lighting. She is visiting Mt. Holyoke College as the Lighting Designer for the Five College Operas Dido & Aeneas and The Seven Deadly Sins being presented at the Rooke Theatre February 26th –March 1st.
For more information contact:
Lara Dubin
413-538-2833
ldubin@mtholyoke.edu
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Five College Opera Project
Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell
directed by Roger Babb
with musical direction by Robert Eisenstein
AND
Seven Deadly Sins by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
directed by Roger Babb
with musical direction by Lanfranco Marcelletti Jr.
ROOKE THEATRE on the MHC campus
Thurs-Sat, Feb. 26-28 at 8 pm
and
Sat & Sun, Feb. 28 at Mar. 1 at 2 pm
Ticket prices: $15.00 general admission and $5.00 for students and senior citizens.
Voicemail reservations accepted Feb. 2-21 with box office staffed Tuesday and Thursday 4-6 pm for payments and sales. Please speak clearly, spelling your last name and leave a phone number as all reservations are confirmed. Reservations made during this period must be paid within 7 days.
Checks payable to Mount Holyoke College -- mail to Mount Holyoke College, Dept. of Theatre Arts, Rooke Box Office, 50 College St., So. Hadley MA 01075
Beginning Mon, Feb. 21, the box office will be staffed
Monday-Friday 3-6 pm and one hour prior to each performance.
For reservations, please call (413) 538-2406
or email: rookeboxoffice@gmail.com
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FALL SEMESTER
Brave Smiles...Another Lesbian Tragedy
by the Five Lesbian Brothers
directed by Brooke O'Harra
This part comedy-part tragedy follows the lives and loves of childhood friends from "T-Puss" through adulthood, spanning world war, most of the 20th century and just a few too many cocktails.
Performances:
December 4-6 at 8 pm Rooke Theatre
December 7 at 2 pm Rooke Theatre
For reservations: (413) 538-2406
Email: rookeboxoffice@gmail.com
Ticket prices: $5 / $3 (Free to MHC students w/ID on opening night)
Box Office is staffed beginning Mon, December 1, 3-6 pm M-F and one hour prior to performance. Voicemail reservations accepted after November 1. Please spell your last name and leave a contact phone number as all reservations are confirmed.
Time Flies
five funny, frivolous and fast comedies taken from David Ives' collection Time Flies. directed by Roger Babb
Performances: Thurs-Sat, October 23-25 at 8 pm and Sun, October 26 at 2 pm in the Rooke Theatre
Ticket prices: $5 / $3 (Free to MHC students w/ID on opening night)
Box Office is staffed beginning Mon, October 20, 3-6 pm M-F and one hour prior to performance. Voicemail reservations accepted anytime. Please spell your last name and leave a contact phone number as all reservations are confirmed
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See Five College Opera audition information
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