Department of Performing Arts

The 2009 - 2010 Mask & Bauble Season

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No Exit

By Jean-Paul Sartre
Directed by Jon Tosetti, COL ‘10
Produced by Michael Franch, SFS '12
Oct. 14-17, 2009 at 8 p.m.
Oct. 18, 2009 at 4 p.m.
Poulton Hall Stage III

No Exit takes us to a place that we might all be slightly aware of: The depths of Hell. This production of Jean-Paul Sartre’s masterpiece will plunge into the philosophical core of No Exit in a piercing, character-driven trip through the depths of the human psyche. Join us as we follow Garcin, Inès, and Estelle into the eternal torments that await them in a comfortably appointed sitting room. And remember to bring some friends – After all, Hell is other people, and the production would hate for you to experience anything less than total damnation.

Caroline, Or Change
a co-production with the Black Theatre Ensemble, the Music Program, and the Theatre and Performance Studies Program

Book and Lyrics by Tony Kushner
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Directed by Kari Fox, COL ‘10
Produced by Katie Pak, COL '12
Musical Direction by Professor C. Paul Heins
Nov. 12-14 and 18-21, 2009 at 8 p.m.
Nov. 15 at 2 p.m.
Davis Performing Arts Center, Gonda Theatre

Set against the backdrop of the Kennedy assassination and the Civil Rights Movement during the final tumultuous months of 1963, this Tony-nominated, semi-autobiographical musical by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) explores the clash between two families’ American experiences.  Caroline Thibodeaux, an African-American maid in a Jewish family’s wealthy Louisiana household, discovers money in the laundry of eight-year old Noah, forcing her into an ethical dilemma that ultimately leads to a new appreciation for the power of change. Composer Jeanine Tesori’s (Thoroughly Modern Millie) exhilarating score weaves gospel, pop, blues, jazz, and traditional Jewish melodies together to support this powerful show the New York Times called “extraordinary.”

The Real Thing
a co-production with Nomadic Theatre

By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Andrew Dolan, COL ‘10
Produced by Renn Andrews, SFS '12
Jan. 21-23, 2010 at 8 p.m. and Jan. 27-30, 2010 at 8 p.m.
Jan. 24, 2010 at 4 p.m.
Davis Performing Arts Center, Devine Studio Theatre

Mask & Bauble and Nomadic Theatre join forces in this exciting co-production. Max harshly accuses his wife, Charlotte, of infidelity.  Yet, after she slams the door, she speaks lovingly with a man named Henry in an eerily similar setting.  Moments later, this playwright, Henry exchanges pleasantries with the very same Max from the previous scene.  What is going on here?  In The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard constantly challenges his audience to ask, "what is real?"  Should we focus on art itself or on what that art does to us?  Ludwig van Beethoven or Lady Gaga?  Can we view things like love, friendship, or music in an objective lens, or should we simply trust the goosebumps that a certain experience gives us?  Stoppard dares the audience to engage a new theatrical reality, one that passes in and out of a play-within-the-play, a movie set, and Henry's personal life.  

Donn B. Murphy One Acts Festival

Featuring The Hypothetical Detective
By Tom Carroll, COL '09
Directed by Jimmy Dailey, COL ‘11
Produced by Isabella Proia, COL '12
Feb. 24-27, 2010 at 8 p.m.
Feb. 28, 2010 at 4 p.m.
Davis Performing Arts Center, Devine Studio Theatre

*Hypothetical Detective patrons on any given night have complementary and priority seats to see that night’s festival events. Should there be available seats after The Hypothetical Detective, patrons can come in to see festival events for FREE on a first-come-first-serve basis. Please arrive at 8:30 to wait for Festival entrance.

Join us throughout the fall and spring as we workshop copious student works, and bring together a unified creative community composed of members from all areas of the arts. This will culminate in February with the Donn B. Murphy One Acts Festival, featuring The Hypothetical Detective by Tom Carroll (COL ‘09). Each night of the festival will consist of a half-hour viewing of The Hypothetical Detective, followed by an intermission and then that night’s Festival. Festival activities will be different every day, and will include adventures like Midnight Oil where students will write, cast, and rehearse a play in 24 hours of time. Please visit our website at https://digitalcommons.georgetown.edu/blogs/maskandbauble/ for updates on the Festival schedule.

The Taming of the Shrew

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tyler Walker, SFS '12
Produced by Meghan McCormick, MSB ‘11
Apr. 15 – 17, 2010 at 8 p.m.
Apr. 18, 2010 at 4 p.m.
Apr. 22-24, 2010 at 8 p.m.
Apr. 25, 2010 at 4 p.m.
Poulton Hall Stage III

After the end of World War II, the returning veterans are eager to start their new lives with the perfect woman.  Plain-Jane Bianca matches the popular profile, and all the men are in hot-pursuit of her hand in marriage. However, one last great obstacle stands in the way of her pastel colored suburban bliss: her father will let none of them near her until Katherine, her ill-tempered older sister, is married. Comedy abounds when an ambitious young man, Petruchio, decides to court this volatile and rebellious daughter. After their marriage Petruchio sets about turning her into an obedient bride. Will Katherine free herself? Will her husband break her spirit and tame the shrew into the perfect housewife? In the last show of its 158th season, Mask & Bauble delivers a refreshing and modern interpretation of Shakespeare’s work The Taming of the Shrew, re-setting the show in the 1950s and taking a closer look at the work through a gender sensitive lens.

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