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The 2012 - 2013 Mask & Bauble Season

Thursday-Saturday, October 18-20 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, October 21 at 2 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, October 24-27 at 8 p.m.
The History Boys
By Alan Bennett
Directed by Emma Clark (SFS ’13)
Produced by Allie Van Dine (SFS ’14)
A group of clever and rowdy sixth-form boys in northern England study for acceptance into Oxford and Cambridge under the dueling instruction of an eccentric, old mainstay and an edgy, young maverick. Along the way, they navigate hormones, peer pressure, and the study of history while questioning the value of education. History Boys won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Play.
POULTON HALL, STAGE III
$10 GENERAL/ $8 STUDENT

Wednesday-Friday, November 7-9 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 10 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
The Donn B. Murphy One-Acts Festival
Spiritual Ecstasies
By Katie Mitchell (COL ’15)
Directed by Kathleen Joyce (COL ’15)
Produced by Sam Buckley (COL ’14)
A Mask and Bauble Tradition, the Donn B. Murphy One Acts Festival celebrates students’ original work. The 161st Season features Spiritual Ecstasies, written by sophomore Katie Mitchell (COL ‘15) and directed by Kathleen Joyce (COL ‘15). This piece asks the audience to grapple with questions of humanity and realms beyond. Follow the ensemble cast as it approaches the ultimate revelation.
POULTON HALL, STAGE III
$7 GENERAL/ $5 STUDENT

CO-PRODUCTION BETWEEN MASK AND BAUBLE AND NOMADIC THEATRE

Wednesday-Friday, March 13-15 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 16 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Polk Street
Based on Polk Street Stories by Joey Plaster
Adapted & Directed by T. Chase Meacham (COL ’14)
Produced by Arianne Price (COL ’15)
Advised by Prof. Susan Lynskey
Polk Street: an end-of-the-line stop for people who are running from pieces of the past. It is a cradle of rebirth, for some, and a gutter for most. It is a place of sex and drugs -- of love, and things that feel like it. It is a nest for runaways, lost children, drag queens, ministers, strippers, hustlers, druggies, artists, queers, and Others who dream of freedom and dancing, of new lives with new pasts. But for all its inhabitants, for better or worse -- Polk Street is home.
WALSH BLACK BOX THEATRE, WALSH BUILDING
$12 GENERAL/$10 STUDENT

Thursday-Saturday, April 4-6 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 7 at 2 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, April 10-13 at 8 p.m.
Spring Awakening
Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Based on the play by Franz Wedekind
Directed by Hannah Hauer-King (COL ’14)
Produced by Elizabeth Robbins (MSB ’14)
A groundbreaking rock musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s original 1891 play, Spring Awakening is set in a strict and unforgiving boarding school in Weimar Germany. The piece musically and dramatically engages with the pressures of repressed teenage sexuality and familial relationships, and the impact of a socially restrictive society on youth and vitality. Unafraid to engage with uncomfortable and downright shocking themes through the surprising medium of alternative rock, this work racked up eight Tony Awards in 2007, including Best Musical.
POULTON HALL, STAGE III
$12 GENERAL/ $8 STUDENT
For mature audiences

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