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Nomadic Theatre

The 2009-10 Nomadic Theatre Season




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Getting Out

By Marsha Norman
Directed by Miranda Hall (COL ’11)
Produced by Erica Manta (COL '10)
October 8-10, 2009 at 8 p.m.
October 11, 2009 at 7 p.m.
October 14-17, 2009 at 8 p.m.
In Walsh Black Box Theatre

Arlene has just been released from prison after serving eight years for kidnapping, robbery, and manslaughter. Determined to start a new life for herself, she returns home to a run-down apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, only to discover a greater confinement than jail: her own past. As Arlene encounters the people in her post-prison life – some new, some old – she is haunted by Arlie, her former self. Will Arlene be able to restart her future or will she find that it’s impossible to escape memory? Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman proves in this gut-wrenching play that a person’s past, like blame, lingers far below the surface.



The Real Thing
a co-production with the Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society

By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Andrew Dolan, COL ’10
Produced by Renn Andrews, SFS '12
January 21-23, 2010 at 8 p.m.
January 24, 2010 at 2 p.m.
January 27-30, 2010 at 8 p.m.
In the 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.


The Pain and the Itch

By Bruce Norris
Directed by Courtney Ulrich, COL ‘11
Produced by Alexandra Aki, SFS '12
Mar. 24-27, 2010 at 8 p.m.
Mar. 27, 2010 at 2 p.m.
Mar. 28, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Devine Studio Theatre

Clay and Kelly share a perfect suburban house with two perfect daughters and have a perfect life. That is until Clay's mother, Carol, and his brother Cash, with his young Eastern European girlfriend come to have Thanksgiving dinner together. The events that unfold threaten to unsettle Clay and Kelly's lives as it becomes clear that their anti-Bush, liberal, philanthropic intentions don't reflect their selfish, empty, hypocritical actions. The elder daughter has a genital itch, there is a mysterious animal taking large bites out of the avocados, instead of a children's movie, porn keeps blasting out of the TV... the messiness of family life is sometimes too much for them to hold together and slowly the threads unravel as everything becomes a little less perfect.


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