Season
2009-10 SEASON
FALL SEMESTER
Harlequin's Lesson in Love
a short comedy by Pierre Marivaux along with a brief work-in-progress The Brain Piece, directed by Roger Babb
Harlequin is 45 minutes long and was Marivaux's first successful collaboration with the Italian Comedians in Paris. It incorporates Marivaux's delightfully frank and seemingly naïve dialog wth elements of Commedia dell'arte, and features a small flock of musical sheep.
The Brain Piece is an investigation of recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and uses a BBC podcast as a dramaturgical device to illustrate certain conditions. The work-in-progress is about 12 minutes long and is light and humorous in tone.
Rooke Theatre
Thurs-Sat, October 22-24 at 8 pm
Sat & Sun, October 24 & 25 at 2 pm
Voicemail reservations accepted. Please speak clearly and leave a phone number as all reservations are confirmed.
Box Office will be staffed beginning Mon, Oct. 19, 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.
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Trifles
by Susan Glaspell
Exploring the real-life murder case that Gaspell covered extensively as a reporter, wherein a man was killed by his wife, Trifles is ultimatey concerned with the changing female role in a society that was not wholly ready to accept it.
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A Quarrelling Pair
by Jane Bowles
This short comic/tragic play about two arguing sistes has been interpreted and reinterpreted by many great directors and choreographers Is it a play about family, about the inner mind, about fear, about women?
Directed by Brooke O'Harra
Rooke Theatre
December 10-12 at 8:00 pm and December 13 at 2:00 pm
Voicemail reservations accepted beginning November 16. Please speak clearly and leave a phone number as all reservations are confirmed.
Box Office will be staffed beginning Mon, Dec. 7, 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, reservations are encouraged.
SPRING SEMESTER
The Ridiculous Précieuses
by Molière
directed by Roger Babb
This play was Moliere's first success as a writer employing the stock resources of French farce and Italian Commedia delle'arte and his own maturing talents of observation, witty dialog and mimicry. It is a farce about preciosity, an exaggeration of 17th century France's quest for elegance and refinement. Pretence was a frequent target for Moliere, he enjoyed blowing it up with the earthy humor and exaggerated rhetoric that is otfen exhibited in his early short farces.
Rooke Theatre
March 4-7, 2010
Hello Failure
directed by Brooke O'Harra
Kristen Komas' Hello Failure is a sprawling associative neo-realistic comedy of beauty involving seven submariners' wives, one counterfeit Civil War ghost,
a lusty renegade hairdresser and a poignant potted plant all just making it through the day. Barely.
Rooke Theatre
April 21-25, 2010