DVC Drama Season 2006-2007
About the Season
Season begins October 13th 2006 - ends May 20, 2007:
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
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Directed by Ed Trujillo
- October 13 - Nov 5, 2006
- DVC Performing Arts Center, 321 Golf Club Road, Pleasant Hill
Macbeth, the last of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, is considered by many scholars to be Shakespeare's darkest work and one of the most powerful. Shakespeare's spell-binding, supernatural tale of the lust for power and its bloody repercussions, set in a modern military industrial society, parades the transformation of this true knight into a bloody tyrant and makes for one of the most profound studies of evil and ruthless ambition ever written.
Woman in Mind by Alan Ayckbourn
- December 1-10, 2006
- Arena Theatre, DVC, 321 Golf Club Road, Pleasant Hill
Uproariously funny, perceptive and heartbreaking, this is a story of the parallel lives of a middle-aged English housewife, trapped in a stifling marriage to a clergyman and slowly going mad. After a collision with a garden rake, she creates her perfect dream family in her mind and finds herself weaving in and out of the two worlds, losing touch with reality and living more and more in her imagination. Another smash hit from Sir Alan Ayckbourn, British author of Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests and Bedroom Farce.
Some Enchanted Evening: The Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein
- January 26-Febuary 18, 2007
- DVC Performing Arts Center, 321 Golf Club Road, Pleasant Hill
SOME ENCHANTED EVENING is a celebration of songs from many of the greatest musicals of all time: Carousel, Cinderella, Oklahoma, Flower Drum Song, South Pacific, Sound Of Music …. More so than any composer and lyricist who have written for the stage, the songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein have become an integral part of our everyday lives. We sing them in the shower, we dance to them in ballrooms, and we hear them in elevators and supermarkets, too. We still thrill too hear them on the live stage in their respective shows, and we teach them to our children. This stunning collection of compositions reminds you of why Rodgers & Hammerstein are our most beloved composer and lyricist.
A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner
- March 16-April 1, 2007
Set in the last days of the Germany’s Weimar Republic, Kushner’s first published play follows a group of artists and activists as they watch their country gradually descend into the Third Reich. By turns both magical and rhetorical, Bright Room charts the ascension of the Nazi party through the seemingly insulated life in middle-class living rooms. A cast of funny and finely drawn characters populates Kushner’s Room to illustrate what happens when intelligent people sit by idly during times of crisis.
"Some Playwrights want to change the world. Some want to revolutionize theatre. Tony Kushner is that rarity of rarities; a writer who has the promise of doing both." ---New York Times
"...BRIGHT ROOM is...an examination of Nazi Germany in an attempt to shed insight on our own time. It's brash, audacious and everything from infuriatingly naive to intoxicatingly visionary. In its 1932-33 span, it tells of a group of Berlin artists and friends, with varying degrees of communist leanings, and of the changes in their lives as democracy falls and Adolph Hitler takes over." --- Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune
The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
- April 27-May 20, 2007
The master comic farce, by the greatest of all writers of French comedy! Molière's masterpieces are plays in which man’s deadly sins are examined, by attacking hypocrisy and vice, he created characters that have become immortal types ---Tartuffe, the hypocrite --- Harpagon, the miser --- Alceste, the misanthrope --- and finally, the hypochondriac, Argan, The Imaginary Invalid (1673) can be considered Moliere's greatest character play, in which the entire development of the action is centered around a single trait of the character upon which everything turns, in this case, that of the greatest hypochondriac of all time!
All plays subject to availability
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- Douglas Dildine
- (925) 685-1230 x1980
- ddlildine@dvc.edu
