Student Theatre Performance, Spring 2002

Once Upon A Weekend
Stephen Weeks, faculty advisor
Fir Acres Theatre Black Box
Saturday, February 16, 10pm
Free

Once Upon a Weekend is an ongoing project which presents each term and is sponsored by the L&C Theatre Department and (pause.) the LC journal of dramatic writing. A theme is announced on Monday, student playwrights have three days to compose short plays based on the theme, several plays are chosen, student directors produce them, students are cast, plays are rehearsed two hours each on Saturday, plays are performed Saturday night at 10pm. The experience is often rough and ready, but always fun and wildly energetic.


Angels In America: Millennium Approaches
By Tony Kushner
Directed by Stepan Simek Assistant Professor of Theatre
March 7,8,9 and 14,15,16
Fir Acres Theatre Main Stage , 7:30 p.m.
$8 general; $5 LC faculty/staff/alumni, seniors, non LC students; $3 LC students

Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches is a Pulitzer Prize winning play that became the most celebrated play of the 1990s in America, and indeed around the world. Tony Kushner has said that he set out to write a play on "AIDS, Mormons, and Roy Cohn, and he subtitled it "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes." The play reckons with the worsening AIDS crisis in mid eighties at the very height of Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution. It is highly political as it takes aim at the selfish politics of the 80s, the Mormon Church, the greedy and self-possessed powerbrokers in Washington D.C., and other national themes, but it also focuses on the problems of individuals caught in the web of AIDS, personal relationships, individual beliefs, and life changing decisions concerning sexuality and political allegiances. While Angels in America is an epic play of truly millennial proportions, it is also a delicate "chamber play" that depicts extraordinary ordinary people and their lives in front of a large, sprawling canvas of American history, politic, and religious and cosmological themes.


One Acts
Student-Written and Student-Directed
Stephen Weeks and Stephanie Arnold, faculty advisors
Fir Acres Theatre Black Box
April 11, 13 - 7:30pm
April 12 - 7:30pm and 10:pm
$2 general admission
Contact Fir Acres Theatre Box Office 503 768-7495