Theatre Productions 08-09
Three Sisters
Friday - Sunday | October 10-12 • Homecoming Weekend!
7:30 PM
By Anton Chekhov, Translated by Lanford Wilson
Directed by Jim Stark
Hanover Town Park Community Building
Chekhov's insightful, compassionate comedies are fundamental to world literature and modern theatre. Written in 1900 at a time of great change in Russia, this play's poetic realism captures delicate places in the human heart. Audiences around the world have joined in the depth of the sisters' stories of desire for larger, more meaningful lives. The new translation by American playwright Lanford Wilson offers us three fascinating young women, their household, and their male admirers, in words and images both vivid and appealing. Driven by intense, unspoken longings, these actors in the human comedy love, laugh, and strive for a better life.
Slaying the Dragon
Friday - Sunday | November 21-23 • 7:30 PM
A new comedy by Casey Ross
Directed by Paul Hildebrand
Parker Auditorium
Fairy-tale knights, fair maidens and the dragons who would eat them are long gone … or are they? Hanover theatre alum Casey Ross '08 tells a winsome comedic tale of a knight and a dragon who should be mortal enemies, but instead are best friends in a thoroughly modern world that forbids such unheard-of relationships. When the threadbare king tells the knight he can win the hand of his thoroughly modern princess if the knight slays the one remaining dragon in the world - his best friend - only theatrics will save the day!
Tartuffe
Friday - Sunday | February 13-15 • 7:30 PM
By Molière, Translated by Richard Wilbur
Directed by Mark Fearnow
Parker Auditorium
Who could be more outwardly religious than Tartuffe? But do his actions match his words? And is Tartuffe a proper match for your young daughter? Watch out as a big phony, a gullible dad, and one clever maid, compete over love in this knockabout comedy by one of the world's greatest writers.
Machinal
Friday - Sunday | March 20-22 • 7:30 PM
By Sophie Treadwell
Directed by Jim Stark
Parker Auditorium
Inspired by a true story, Sophie Treadwell's brilliant script combines romance with crime drama and turns the stunted speech of modern life into spiky poetry. Life in an office cubicle was never (or, perhaps, always) so beautiful and unnerving.
