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 Season tickets are now available for University Theatre productions for the coming academic year. The drama and theatre department will be producing seven plays, ranging from Restoration comedy through 21st-century premieres.
The season opens with Top Girls by Carol Churchill at 8 p.m. Sept. 13-16 and 2:30 p.m. Sept. 17 in the Cellar Theatre in the Fine Arts Building. Brian Haimbach will direct the story of Marlene, who celebrates a promotion by inviting “top girls” from the past to a dinner party. Churchill’s innovative treatment of time and language demonstrates the parallels between the lives of these historical heroines and the lives of Marlene’s friends.
The farcical romantic adventures of Mrs. Malaprop--who gave malapropisms to the language--and her niece Lydia are the subject of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals, scheduled for Sept. 27-30 and Oct. 3-7 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 1 at 2:30 p.m. in the Seney-Stovall Chapel at the Lucy Cobb Institute. Sheridan is one of the most frequently produced playwrights in the English language; The Rivals combines the boisterous hilarity of Restoration comedy with late 18th-century sentimentality. Carolyn Blackinton will direct.
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible will be directed by Farley Richmond Nov. 15-18 and Nov. 28-Dec. 2 at 8 p.m., with a matinee at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 19, in the Fine Arts Theatre. Miller’s dramatization of the 1692 witchcraft trials in Salem, Mass., was inspired by the American anti-Communist terrors of the 1950s.
On Oct. 18-21 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 22 at 2:30 p.m., Catherine Trieschmann’s latest work, The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock, will be presented in the Cellar Theatre. Trieschmann, a graduate student in playwriting, wrote last season’s Before the Fire. Her new play is set in southern Appalachia and tells the darkly comic story of young people trying to shape their lives and loves in the aftershock of the Civil War.
This year’s Georgia Repertory Theatre production will be directed by Stanley Longman in the Seney-Stovall Chapel on Feb. 21-24 and Feb. 27-March 3 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 25 at 2:30 p.m. Play selection is under way; as usual, the selected play will be performed by a professional company.
Mark Monday will direct Pete Townsend’s ’70s rock opera The Who’s Tommy in the Fine Arts Theatre April 11-14 and 17-21 at 8 p.m. and April 15 at 2:30 p.m. UGA’s Interactive Performance Laboratory will participate in the production, using the latest computer technology to tell the story of the “Pinball Wizard” and his search for human contact.
The next production will be Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories, adapted for the stage by Tim Supple and David Tushingham and directed by Freda Scott Giles. It will be presented in the Cellar Theatre Feb. 7-10 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 11 at 2:30 p.m. Rushdie’s tale tells of one boy’s journey to the Sea of Stories, where he finds that his father’s outlandish yarns are not only true but also alive.
Tickets for the full season of University Theatre productions are $59 ($50 students). To reserve tickets, or request a season ticket brochure, call 542-4235. Tickets to individual performances will be available one week before opening night for each show in the box office in the lobby of Fine Arts. Box office hours are noon-5 p.m. weekdays.
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