Season of Transformation
2005-06
November 12 -19, 2005 in the Gonda Theatre
Our Country's Good
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Prof. Maya Roth
A lively and moving play-within-a-play about the production of a Restoration comedy in the first penal colony of New South Wales, Australia, by exiled prisoners. A modern classic, Our Country's Good highlights the myriad roles of theater in society and the power of imagination. With wit and creative elegance, Our Country's Good stages international history, civic debate, and hope. Directed by the Artistic Director of the Davis Performing Arts Center, Maya Roth, and performed by student-artists enrolled in Theatrical Ensemble.
February 16-18, 22-25 at 8 pm; February 19 at 2 pm in the Gonda Theatre
The Winter's Tale
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Prof. Derek Goldman
A tragedy of desolation, Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's
most beautiful plays. Set in two starkly different kingdoms over sixteen
years, Shakespeare's tragicomedy abounds with music, romance, laughter and
the magic of forgiveness and rebirth. Brought to the stage by two nationally
recognized artists new to Georgetown's faculty: Director Derek Goldman
and Sceneographer Michael Philippi.
March 16-18, 22-25 at 8 pm; March 19 at 2 pm in the Devine Theatre
Dr. Korczac and the Children
by Erwin Sylvanus
Directed by Prof. Karen Berman
Collaboratively produced with the Jewish Chaplaincy, the Program for Jewish Civilization, and Nomadic Theatre.
A spiritual homage to anyone who chooses compassion over fear, courage over self-interest, this inspiring German play tells the true story of Dr. Korczak, and the Jewish children he accompanies as they are led to their deaths by the S.S. during the Holocaust. Haunting and hopeful, Dr. Korczak and the Children is part moral meditation, part love story, part testimony. With simple theatricality, song, and layers of storytelling that reverberate to now, this performance testifies to the power of creative and social transformation. A collaboration with Jewish Chaplaincy, Nomadic Theatre, and the Program for Jewish Civilization, this powerful production opens the Devine Studio Theatre with a spirit of socially-engaged community--as well as a Washington DC premiere. With gratitude to Michael and Laura Faino for funding support.
April 20-22 at 8 pm; April 22 at 2 pm in Devine Theatre, Senior Thesis Project
Schoolgirl Figure
by Wendy MacLeod
Directed by Jen Rogers ('06)
A powerful satire about the culture of eating disorders, Schoolgirl Figure is daring, funny, educational, and, finally, quite moving and compassionate. Directed by Jen Rogers for her senior thesis project, this virtuosic chamber play helps to raise audience awareness, and activism, around body image diseases and the silences around them. Darkly funny, important, oddly hopeful. Written by a Washington DC native, one of the most innovative of contemporary American playwrights.
