DVC Drama Season 2005-2006
Title of Play, Month Year
About the Season
Season begins October 14th 2005 - ends May 21, 2006: Twelfth Night Oct. 14-Nov. 6; Humble Boy Dec. 2-11; Jekyll & Hyde, The Musical Jan. 27 - Feb. 19; A Streetcar Named Desire Mar. 17 - Apr 2; We Wont Pay! We Wont Pay! Apr. 28 - May 21.
Performances are on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2:30pm.
Tickets: $10-$13 for plays. $12 - $15 for musicals.
Box Office: (925) 687-4445, tickets@dvcdrama.com
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- Directed by Ed Trujillo
- October 14 - Nov 6, 2005
- DVC Performing Arts Center, 321 Golf Club Road, Pleasant Hill
Shakespeares tale of unrequited love in a gender bending comedy of mistaken identities! A terrible storm at sea separates twins --- a sister and her brother. Alone in a mans world, Viola, the shipwrecked sister, disguises herself as a man to serve as emissary for the lovesick Duke Orsino in his quest to win the heart of the beautiful and aloof, Olivia --- only to have Olivia fall for the messenger, Viola. When Violas twin, Sebastian arrives, mistaken identities confuse, confound and delight!
Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones
- Student directed by Mike Fallon
- Dec 2 - 11, 2005
- Arena Theatre, DVC, 321 Golf Club Road, Pleasant Hill
- Winner of the Critics Circle Best New Play Award and the Peoples Choice Best New Play Award!
A comedy about broken vows, failed hopes and the joys of beekeeping& In a somewhat freewheeling adaptation of Shakespeares Hamlet --- an astrophysicist searching for a unified field theory soon realizes that his search for unity must be expanded to include his own chaotic life. "Sad, very sad; funny, very, very funny& This is a seriously wonderful play" - London Sunday Times
Jekyll & Hyde the Musical Conceived for the Stage by: Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn
- Book and Lyrics by: Leslie Bricusse
- Music by: Frank Wildhorn
- Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Directed by Buddy Butler
- Jan 27 - Feb 19
- DVC Performing Arts Center, 321 Golf Club Road, Pleasant Hill
Buried deep within the breast of many men lie the seeds of great terror, dark imaginings that should never see the light of day. Follow in Dr. Jekylls tortured steps as he unleashes the evil buried within himself. This amazing musical with book & lyrics by the great Leslie Bricusse and the melodic music of composer Frank Wildhorn weaves a hypnotic spell that will send shivers down your spine and bring the London fog to chill you to the bone.
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesee Williams
- Directed by Beth McBrien
- March 17 - April 2, 2006
- Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
From the great American writer of romantic illusions comes his greatest play. In the steamy streets of New Orleans the archetype brute, Stanley Kowalski, struggles for dominance over his wife and her fragile sister --- Blanche du Bois. The play reveals to the very depths the character of this faded southern belle caught in a changing modern world of brutish cruelty that leads to the revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness.
We Wont Pay! We Wont Pay! by Dario Fo
- Directed by Brian Newberg
- April 28 - May 21, 2006
- Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature!
Dario Fos most performed play is popular for a reason: its sure-fire funny. This uproarious farce is a banner for resistance against the assault on the working class by a world of big fish eating little fish. In this story the little fish bite back! Dario Fo, one of Italys foremost playwrights, is a rarity --- a Marxist with a sense of humor. "Hilarious comedy& funnier than anything Ive seen in 15 years." - Village Voice
MARKETING DIRECTOR:
- Douglas Dildine
- (925) 685-1230 x1980
- ddlildine@dvc.edu