The 2014-15 Mask and Bauble Season

Thursday-Saturday, October 16-18 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, October 19 at 2 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, October 22-25 at 8 p.m.

MASK & BAUBLE DRAMATIC SOCIETY
(Student-produced event)

Inherit the Wind

By Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
Directed by Will Redmond (COL ’15)
Produced by Audrey Denis (SFS ’15)

As a blistering summer consumes Hillsboro, Tennessee, high school teacher Bert Cates is arrested for teaching the theory of evolution in his biology class. As the people of Hillsboro and other communities demand Cates’s conviction, intellectuals around the country demand he be made a hero and the law struck down. At the center of this conflagration are two old friends: Cates’s defense attorney Henry Drummond, an agnostic civil libertarian, and the prosecutorial titan and three-time presidential candidate Matthew Harrison Brady. Their showdown in the Hillsboro courthouse expands far beyond an accused teacher, instead becoming a battle between America’s greatest lawyers about science and religion, the role of education, the right to free speech, and the nature of truth itself.

POULTON HALL, STAGE III
$12 GENERAL | $8 STUDENT

Wednesday-Friday, November 19-21 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 22 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

MASK & BAUBLE DRAMATIC SOCIETY
(Student-produced event)

The Donn B. Murphy One-Acts Festival

Featuring “Headspace”, written by Claytia Gonsalves (COL ’15)
Adapted from the work of Shel Silverstein
Directed by Marlene Cox (COL ’16)
Produced by Marko Palumbo (COL ’16)

The Donn B. Murphy One-Acts Festival is named in honor of one of Mask & Bauble’s greatest leaders who helped shape Student Theater at Georgetown University. The Festival showcases student-written works and allows student writers, directors, actors and producers to create and develop a new show. “Headspace”follows Ai, the gender-neutral protagonist, on a journey of self-discovery. In this coming of age narrative, Ai dreams of a place where the answers to the questions life brings can be found—questions of identity, purpose, inter-generational relationships, and courage. It is only when Ai finds a dream land called “Up” that he realizes the answers to life’s questions are difficult to come by and difficult to understand.

POULTON HALL, STAGE III
$8 GENERAL | $5 STUDENT

Thursday-Saturday, April 9-11 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 12 at 2 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, April 15-18 at 8 p.m.

Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society
(Student-produced event)

Urinetown

Book by Greg Kotis
Music by Mark Hollmann
Lyrics by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann
Directed by Sean Craig (COL ‘16)
Produced by Emily Grau (COL ‘16)

What happens when people are trapped by the system? What happens when the haves have the have-nots in the palm of their hand? What happens when the American Dream becomes a nightmare? What happens when people’s very right to pee is denied? You get Urinetown, the story of hope, revolution, love, urine, and towns. In an absurd future with a crippling water shortage, people’s rights (and bladders) are pushed to the brink. It’s up to Bobby Strong, an innocent young amenity worker, to lead the people in a revolt against the tyrannical Urine Good Company. What they don’t realize, though, is that musicals-and life-don’t always have a happy ending.

POULTON HALL, STAGE III
$12 general | $8 student

Wednesday-Friday, March 25-27 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 28 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

NOMADIC THEATRE AND MASK & BAUBLE DRAMATIC SOCIETY
(Student-produced event)

Killer Joe

Written by Tracy Letts
Directed by Andrew Walker (SFS ‘16)
Produced by Sarah Konig (COL ‘16)

Hired by the dissolute Smith family to murder the matriarch for insurance money, Killer Joe takes the daughter to bed as a retainer against his final payoff which sets in motion a bloody aftermath as the “hit man” meets his match. The first play by Tracy Letts, author of August: Osage County, Killer Joe revels in its white trash stereotypes, and gives you permission to do the same; it’s pulp fiction which has it both ways, deriving humor from dirty realism.

WALSH BLACK BOX THEATRE, WALSH BUILDING
$12 general | $8 student

Contains adult language and themes, violence, partial nudity

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