Auditions for BLITHE SPIRIT this week!!

Audition for Blithe Spirit, directed by Dusty Reasons, Monday and Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the performance hall. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script, which is available in the Arts Language and Literature office (G 138) or in the Library.

Roles available:

CHARLES CONDOMINE: In his forties, Charles is an intelligent and urbane English novelist. Charles is the husband of Ruth Condomine and deceased first wife, Elvira.
RUTH CONDOMINE: A smart looking woman in her mid-thirties, Ruth is the wife of Charles. She is a bit jealous of Charles’s relationship with his first wife.
DR. BRADMAN: A pleasant-looking middle-aged man, Dr. Bradman is a friend of the Condomines.
MRS. BRADMAN: The wife of Dr. Bradman, Mrs. Bradman is middle-aged, a bit faded and a little ditzy.
MADAME ARCATI: A middle-aged spiritualist, Madame Arcati is a striking woman. She is at times over the top and has a definite edge toward the barbaric.
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ELVIRA: Charles Condomine’s deceased first wife in her early thirties, Elvira returns as a ghost with a goal. In the process, she makes Charles’s and Ruth’s lives very complicated.
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EDITH: The Condomine’s maid, Edith is always in a hurry. This character can be a real hoot.

Again, Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Sign up for a 30-minute time slot on the call board. Email Professor Reasons at dreasons@dcccd.edu is you have any questions.

UNT TRIP SUNDAY

EASTFIELD theatre students and faculty will be meeting int he parking lot at EFC near the theatre at 12:30 to carpool/ caravan to Denton, TX, to see UNT's production of :

In the Blood

By Suzan-Lori Parks

February 25, 26 & 27

A story about Hester and her five fatherless children. Living in poverty and having a reputation for promiscuity, her children and her future begin to grow dim. Hester seizes the opportunity to receive help from her children's fathers, with hopes that one of them might provide assistance. This is a shocking tragedy by award-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks that is based on the novel The Scarlet Letter.

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The head of drama at UNT will be meeting with our students there as well....

Tickets are $5  Email me at dreasons@dcccd.edu if you are coming so we know to wait for you.... Or call
972-860-7653

SHOWS THIS WEEKEND, part 1

Wednesday- Sunday at Southern Methodist University in Dallas:

SMU'S Meadows School of the Arts Presents George Bernard Shaw's Comic Play "You Never Can Tell," Feb. 23-27

Rollicking comedy features romantic foibles and social mores gone awry

February 18, 2011

Love strikes at first sight, a father is reunited with lost children, youth shocks polite taste, a young dentist misbehaves, a waiter saves the day, and in the end a mysterious stranger resolves all. It’s You Never Can Tell, George Bernard Shaw’s frothy romantic comedy, presented by the Division of Theatre at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts from February 23-27, 2011. 

Set in an English seaside resort in the Edwardian era, the play centers around the Clandon family, recently returned to England after 18 years in Spain. When they invite a local young dentist and his landlord for lunch, they are shocked to learn the landlord is the family’s long-estranged father. Meanwhile the dentist falls for the Clandons’ oldest daughter, an emancipated modern woman with her own ideas about love. Shaw’s play, which pokes fun at Victorian social mores and the follies of relationships, has remained an audience favorite since its debut in 1897.

The production is directed by alumnus Patrick Kelly (B.A. ’68), a three-time winner of the Dallas Theatre Critics’ Circle Award for Best Direction and former chair of the Drama Department at the University of Dallas. Kelly has directed numerous productions for the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival as well as for theatres in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. Set design is by New York-based guest artist John Arnone, a Tony Award-winning designer and fellow Meadows alumnus (B.A. 1970). Arnone began his distinguished career in 1976 with Vanities, an off-Broadway hit that launched the career of fellow SMU alum and Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates. Arnone has designed numerous Broadway shows, such as Grease, The Full Monty and Edward Albee’s The Goat, winning the Tony for The Who’s Tommy.

The play will be performed in the Greer Garson Theatre of the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus. Show times are 8 p.m. Wed.-Sat. and 2 p.m. Sat. and Sun. Tickets are $13 for adults, $10 for seniors and $7 for SMU students, faculty and staff. Parking is available at Hillcrest and Binkley and in the garage beneath the Meadows Museum. For more information, call the Meadows Ticket Office at 214.768.2787 or visit the Meadows website at meadows.smu.edu.

****Discounts for our students- EMAIL ME IF YOU WANT TO COME.....   dreasons@dcccd.edu

V-DAY at Eastfield College

Harvester Theatre presents V-DAY, a special edition of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 23-24, at 6 p.m. in the Performance Hall.

 

Members of Eastfield faculty, staff and student body perform monologues based on interviews with women all over the world about their vaginas. The V-DAY movement started with the popularity of her one-woman show, The Vagina Monologues, and evolved to a worldwide event surrounding Valentine's Day. All funds from events around the world go to support local women's shelters in the communities. The main goal of V-Day is to raise awareness of growing violence towards women and to help put an end to it.

 

Please join us next week in support of this cause, whether you have a vagina or not.

 

When: Feb. 23-24, 6 p.m.

Where: Eastfield Performance Hall

How much: Donations accepted at the door for a local  women's shelter

 

For more information about the show at Eastfield, contact director Dusty Reasons at dreasons@dcccd.edu.

For more information on V-DAY, visit http://www.vday.org/.