Upcoming Performances
2009-2010 Season
October 22-24, 29-31
Twelfth Night
Suzanne von Liebig Theatre, Halbritter Center
22-24, 29, 30: 7:30 pm
31: 2:00pm
Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's most studied and best loved plays. This twin-based comedy of cross-dressing and mistaken identity has also garnered much attention for its nuanced treatment of issues of gender, ambition, class, and love. The darkly comedic "subplot" wherein the backstairs staff sets about to trick the steward, Malvolio, a great comic villain, into madness, is woven through a love story of the nobility to give the play a rich tapestry of emotional range for all actors, making for a delightful experience for an audience.
Love, passion, romance, riches, ambition, mistaken identity, pirates, shipwreck, mourning, trickey, disguise, festivity, drunkeness, song, and dance.
"If music be the food of love, play on!"
William Shakespeare
November 19-22
The Corduroy Prayer
Suzanne von Liebig Theatre, Halbritter Center
7:30pm
"Stephanie Skura could pass for a tour guide of the mind." -Los Angeles Times
The Gravity Project artist Stephanie Skura will guide Juniata Theatre students in a new ensemble-generated work based on 12 of the 36 class 'dramatic situations' with scene titles including: Crimes of Love, Daring Enterprise, An Enemy Loved, Enigma, Erroneous Judgement, Fatal Imprudence, Remorse, and more. This full banquet of scenes will take an athletic approach to the voice, image-laden language, and movement.
In Stephanie Skura, a regular teaching and creative presence through The Gravity Project, Juniata is blessed to have a real star of the dance and theatre worlds.
Senior Capstones
December 4-6
Suzanne von Liebig Theatre, Halbritter Center
4, 5: 7:30pm
6: 2:00pm, 7:30pm
Marci Chamberlain '10
Big Love
February 18-20, 25-27
Suzanne von Liebig Theatre, Halbritter Center
7:30pm
Directed by TGP artist, choreographer, and aerialist Nate Dryden, Big Love promises to be a funny and bold feast of movement, sound, and image. The play is by Chuck Mee, a playwright who has made a career of combining and updating Greek plays.
Mee describes Big Love, his reworking of The Supplicants, by Aeschylus:
"50 young women are betrothed to marry their cousins - and the women don't want to do it. And, on the wedding night, 49 brides murder their husbands - and one falls in love. So, here are the themes of love, the gender wars, the resort to force, the plight of refugees, the humanitarian debt one human being owes another in need: it seems we are still grappling with all the same thing that seized people's attention 2,000 years ago."
Delicious/Vicious
April 21-24
Suzanne von Liebig Theatre, Halbritter Center
7:30pm
Quite simply - an evening of love scenes. Interludes of song and dance interspersed with some of the greatest love scenes ever written, performed by Juniata Theatre students and alumni. Come with an open heart and an empty belly - we have some delicious surprises waiting for you in what we hope will be a perfect spring evening of theatre, song, and treats!
Senior Capstone
May 1-2
Suzanne von Liebig Theatre, Halbritter Center
1: 7:30pm
2: 2:00pm and 7:30pm
Allison Strausberg '10
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