Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society 2016-17 season
Thursday-Saturday, October 13-15 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, October 16 at 2 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, October 19-22 at 8 p.m.
(student-produced event)
Black Theatre Ensemble and The Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society co-production
An American Daughter
Written by Wendy Wasserstein
Directed by Caitlin Ouano (COL ’17)
Produced by Carmen Livesay (COL ’17)
Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes is nominated to be the next Surgeon General of the United States, and it appears to be a certainty. However, one small misstep in an interview casts her whole nomination in doubt, as Lyssa helplessly watches the media shatter her privacy, her career, and her world. In this DC political drama, the ever incisive Wendy Wasserstein attempts to explore how, when it comes to a career in the public eye, “a woman’s life is all about boundaries.”
POULTON HALL, STAGE III
$12 GENERAL | $8 STUDENT
Thursday-Saturday, November 3-5 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 6 at 2 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday, November 10-12 at 8 p.m.
A collaboration between the Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program, Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society, and Black Theatre Ensemble
Wind Me Up, Maria!: A Go-Go Musical
Created and Directed by Prof. Natsu Onoda Power
with Charles “Shorty Corleone” Garris
Guest appearance by Capital Kidds
Maria, a DC native and a rising senior at Georgetown, has a dilemma — it is the summer and she has not landed a job or an internship; and yet, all she wants to do is to write and perform Go-Go music. When she finally finds employment as a live-in tutor at a wealthy Georgetown household, she begins teaching the children about Go-Go. With its non-stop party groove fueled by congas, cowbells, timbales, and call and response interactions with the audience, Go-Go is the signature sound of DC. This musical will get you out of your seats and shaking your booty! Created by “singular playwright-director” (Boston Globe) Prof. Natsu Onoda Power and producer/educator/ lead singer of one of DC’s premier Go-Go bands Rare Essence, Charles “Shorty Corleone” Garris, this production is part of the Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program’s 2016-17 season: Discover and Celebrate.
DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER,GONDA THEATRE
FRIDAY/SATURDAY EVENING: $18 GENERAL | $15 FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, SENIOR | $10 STUDENT
ALL OTHER PERFORMANCES: 15 GENERAL | $12 FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, SENIOR | $7 STUDENT
Thursday-Saturday, February 16-18 at 8 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday, February 23-25 at 8 p.m.
(student-produced event)
Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society
The Donn B. Murphy One Acts Festival
Featuring Victimology by Rachel Linton
Including Mime, Monologues, Short Scenes, Staged Readings
Directed by Makayla Kessel (SFS’ 18)
Produced by Lilli Seabol (COL’ 17)
Mask and Bauble’s third mainstage and first stand-alone production of Season 165, DBMOAF is a celebration of student-written work, exploring new forms this year. Victimology, which examines the divergence of experiences between a brother and sister years after growing up in an abusive household. The entire show takes place outside of a courtroom as the siblings testify and await the fate of their father and abuser. Highlighting the exploration of broken families, DBMOAF will also feature scenes from classic plays by playwrights like Tennessee Williams. The final piece of DBMOAF will be large group mime performances, written and workshopped by the cast, which further dives into the questions of family, memory, and universalities in the experience of trauma.
POULTON HALL, STAGE III
$12 GENERAL | $8 STUDENT
Thursday-Saturday, April 6-8 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 9 at 2 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, April 19-22 at 8 p.m.
(student-produced event)
MASK AND BAUBLE DRAMATIC SOCIETY
Stupid F###ing Bird
Written, Conceived, and Adapted by Aaron Posner
Directed by Alex Yurcaba (COL’ 18)
Produced by Jemma Fagler (COL’ 18)
Stupid F###ing Bird will be Mask and Bauble’s fourth and final mainstage production of the year. It is a meta-theatrical exploration of the nature of love and emotional presence, using Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull as an inspiration, canvas, and punchline. The play follows seven flawed and unhappy people as they grapple with their self-worth and existential sense of purpose. Wickedly funny, Stupid F###ing Bird is a blunt and unadorned conversation about the intricate joys and frustrations of feeling. It peels back the personal safeguards we’ve constructed to protect our insecurities without remorse, in a visceral confluence with one of theatre’s greatest storytellers.
POULTON HALL, STAGE III
$12 GENERAL | $8 STUDENT