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The 2010 - 2011 Mask & Bauble Season

The Donn B. Murphy One-Acts Festival
Including

Peaches and Freon
Written by Ryan Dull (COL ‘12) and Michael Franch (SFS ‘12)
Directed by Joseph Madsen (COL ’14)

#Courage
Written and directed by Swedian Lie (COL ’13)
Produced by Elizabeth Robbins (MSB ’14)

Headlining this festival of students’ original work, Peaches and Freon: A Musical, follows Broadway’s most notorious playwriting duo, invited to be the guests of honor at the year’s hottest soiree. See if the pair can survive the evening when it turns out that their outlandish work is actually being put on review, and not even their cult following may be able to save their careers. Inspired by the Arab Spring and Bertolt Brecht’s landmark anti-war play, Mother Courage and her Children, #Courage invites audience members into the ethereal world of social media while blurring the lines between theatre and reality. In encountering an ensemble of characters experiencing both the brooding and inspiring qualities of the Internet, one is challenged by the notion of revolution in the era of digital globalization.

Wednesday- Saturday, October 12-15 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, October 16 at 2 p.m.
POULTON HALL, STAGE III
$7 GENERAL / $5 STUDENT

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by Rachel Sheinkin
Directed by Beni El-Dalati (COL ’12)
Produced by Ellison Roberts (COL ‘14)

Called “that rarity of rarities, a super-smart show that is also a bona fide crowd-pleaser” by the Wall Street Journal, this Tony Award-winning one-act musical follows six neurotic kids as they compete for the treasured prize of becoming the winner of their county spelling bee. The show satirizes contemporary stereotypes of overachieving minority kids and Ritalin-addicted 10-year-olds, giving the audience adult laughs through children characters.

Thursday-Saturday, February 16-18 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 19 at 2 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, February 22-25 at 8 p.m.
POULTON HALL STAGE III
$12 GENERAL / $8 STUDENT

CO-PRODUCTION BETWEEN MASK AND BAUBLE AND NOMADIC THEATRE
The Deep Blue Sea
By Terence Rattigan
Directed by Shawn Summers (COL ’12)
Produced by Melissa Miller (COL ’12)

One of Rattigan’s most celebrated plays, The Deep Blue Sea takes place in the austere environment of postwar Britain in imperial decline, opening with the discovery of Hester Collyer - who has just unsuccessfully attempted suicide - by her neighbors. Hester had left her husband, a wealthy judge, for Freddie, an alcoholic pilot who by his own admission cannot match for her the kind of indefatigable love she feels for him. In the aftermath of Hester’s suicide attempt, Freddie realizes they’re “death to each other” and leaves for South America. Hester is “caught between the Devil and the deep blue sea,” and it is only the friendship of a disgraced ex-doctor that convinces Hester that anything may be worth living for.

Thursday-Saturday, November 10-12 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 13 at 4 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, November 16-19 at 8 p.m.
DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DEVINE STUDIO THEATRE
$10 GENERAL

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