DVC Drama Season 2007-2008
PERFORMANCES: Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2:30pm.
TICKETS: $8-$15
BOX OFFICE: Open Monday – Friday 12pm to 4pm. (925) 687-4445 tickets@dvcdrama.com
OCTOBER 19-NOVEMBER 11, 2007
WORLD PREMIERE! A NEW ADAPTATION OF THE EURIPIDES CLASSIC IPHIGENIA AT AULIS by Zach Diestler & Nicole Hess Diestler
- GREEK TRAGEDY
- Performing Arts Center
The winds at Aulis are quiet and will not blow again until blood is shed. The King must choose: obey the gods’ decree and sacrifice his young and innocent daughter, or save his family and lose his leadership and his legacy.
In a newly commissioned adaptation the story of the princess whose death made her immortal, comes alive with this new adaptation by husband and wife writing team Zachary and Nicole Diestler.
Originally written in 410 BC, Iphigenia is the last surviving work of the playwright Euripides. First produced four years after his death, the play won first place at the Dionysia Festival in Athens.
NOVEMBER 30 –DECEMBER 9, 2007
What the Butler Saw By Joe Orton
- BRITISH COMEDY
- Student Directed by Duncan Moore
- Arena Theater
"Brilliant, witty, the funniest show so far this season." --- NBC TV
""Madly antic humor." ---AP
The Prentices are no ordinary couple --- Dr. Prentice is a psychiatrist with his own hospital who believes that the best way to interview a girl for a job is to seduce her. But nothing is going to work smoothly in this nut house that includes Mrs. Prentice, a nymphomaniac who brings home her latest lover, a reluctant bellhop, just as the state inspector decides to pay a visit to the hospital. What ensues is a wild melee of disappearances, disguises and discoveries as husband and wife try to hide their indiscretions from one another and from the state inspector. And the ending is one of those delights that Oscar Wilde might have dreamed up in a sequel to The Importance of Being Earnest.
"Hilarious, outrageous... It dazzles!" ---N.Y. Times
"Wonderfully verbal, toying with words as if they were firecrackers." ---N.Y. Times
"Hilarious.... Joe Orton's best comedy." ---CBS
JANUARY 25 – FEBRUARY 17, 2008
BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL
- AMERICAN MUSICAL
- Story & Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Fleming.
- Music & Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe
- Directed by Andrea Weber
- Performing Arts Center
"Ripped from the headlines of The Weekly World News!"
BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL is a classic love story with a serious bite. This delicious twist on the modern day musical comedy tells the amazing story of a strange boy with pointy ears, his struggle to find a place in a world that shuns him, and the love that can create both miracles and madness.
"Packed with sharp, witty one-liners" Metro – Tina Jackson
"Darkly funny – curiously touching" The Times – Sam Marlowe
"Slick, sick and compelling… A cult hit in the making" The Guardian – Alfred Hickling
* No Bats were harmed in the making of this musical.
MARCH 15 – APRIL 13, 2008
RUMORS
- AMERICAN COMEDY
- By Neil Simon
- Directed by Beth McBrien
- Performing Arts Center
Four couples gather to celebrate a tenth wedding anniversary of their best friends only to discover an attempted suicide - or is it?
A missing wife, missing cook, a damaged car, whip lash, a reoccurring back spasm, and "rumors" galore add to the comedic mayhem and the situation gets progressively more difficult to sustain when nobody can remember who has been told what about whom.
"Part social satire, part Carol Burnett Show skit, Neil Simon's Rumors is long on the kind of crackle designed to keep an audience snapping back with laughter." ---The Times Herald
APRIL 25 – MAY 18, 2008
The Clash and Celebration of American Cultures
- ORIGINAL WORK
- By (playwrights to be named later)
- Directed by Ed Trujillo
- Arena Theater
"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy" ---John Updike
A provocative and dynamic journey of interwoven stories through four new and original short plays that explore and define what the American spirit is in the 21st century.
Diablo Valley College has commissioned four new original short plays written by local and nationally renowned playwrights based on the theme of "The Clash and Celebration of American Cultures."
PERFORMANCES: Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2:30pm.
TICKETS: $8-$15
BOX OFFICE: Open Monday – Friday 12pm to 4pm. (925) 687-4445 tickets@dvcdrama.com
All plays subject to availability
MARKETING DIRECTOR:
- Douglas Dildine
- (925) 685-1230 x1980
- ddlildine@dvc.edu
