Productions

New Beginnings: A Winter Dance Concert

MomentuM: An Evening of Dance

Gulick Theatre: April 29-30, 2011

Choreographer: Kerri Canedy

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New Beginnings: A Winter Dance Concert

Gulick Theatre: December 3-4, 2010

Choreographers: Kerri Canedy, Visiting Assistant Professor & Students Sarah Curry, Nancy Decker, Karen Sesterhenn and Basimah Habibi

New Beginnings was a performance by students of the St. Lawrence dance community. The Beginning Ballet and Jazz Dance classes worked hard all term to not only learn various dance techniques, but they also had to learn choreographic and performance techniques. St. Lawrence University's new dance professor Kerri Canedy choreographed six original works and re-staged Michael Jackson's classic, Thriller, for the show. One student soloist, Sarah Curry, and two student dance groups, The Swingin' Saints and Basimah's Habibi's rounded out the concert. The show had a wide variety of styles and had something for everyone to enjoy.

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Tom Stoppard: Arcadia

Gulick Theatre: November 3-6, 2010

Directed by Rebecca Daniels, Birdsong Associate Professor in the Arts

Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia (1993) focuses on the relationship between past and present and by doing so challanges the certainty of our knowledge.  The play is set in Sidley Park, an English country hpouse, in both the years 1809–1812 and the present day—1993 in the original production. The activities of two modern scholars and the house's current residents are juxtaposed with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier. In 1809, Thomasina Coverly, the daughter of the house, is a precocious teenager with ideas about mathematics well ahead of her time. She studies with her tutor, Septimus Hodge, a friend of Lord Byron (who is an unseen guest in the house). In the present, a writer and an academic converge on the house: Hannah Jarvis, the writer, is investigating a hermit who once lived on the grounds; Bernard Nightingale, a professor of literature, is investigating a mysterious chapter in the life of Byron. As their investigations unfold, helped by Valentine Coverly, a post-graduate student in mathematical biology, the truth about what happened in Thomasina's lifetime is gradually revealed.

The play's set features a large table, which is used by the characters in both past and present. Props are not removed when the play switches time period, so that the books, coffee mugs, quill pens, portfolios, and laptop computers appear alongside each other in a blurring of past and present. [Source: Wikipedia]

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Jenny Schwartz: God's Ear

Gulick Theatre: March 31 - April 3, 2010

Directed by Kirk Fuoss, Maurer Professor of Rhetoric and Communication

A husband and wife have trouble coping with the loss of their son. They find themselves speaking in cliches and the husband travels to forget. The wife stays with their daughter and the tooth fairy and tries to figure out how to cope with her loss from home. The play wan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2007. Through the skillfully disarming use of clichéd language and homilies, the play explores with subtle grace and depth the way the death of a child tears one family apart, while showcasing the talents of a promising young playwright who "in [a] very modern way [is] making a rather old-fashioned case for the power of the written word"  (The New York Times).

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Paula Vogel: How I Learned to Drive

Gulick Theatre: November 4-7, 2009

Directed by Rebecca Daniels, Birdsong Associate Professor in the Arts

How I Learned to Drive is a memory play, set mostly in the 1960s, that is both light handed and comic as well as intense and devastating.  Constructed like a montage, the play’s actions move back and forth through time, taking the audience through a young woman’s memories of a very charged seven-year period in her life using a highly theatrical, multi-media, non-realistic, presentational performance style.  The plays themes include pedophilia/incest, family and forgiveness, damaged lives, discovering one’s identity, and the nature of [and delicate balance between] love and abuse.  The two main characters are the young woman [nicknamed Li’l Bit] and her Uncle Peck.  Three members of the Greek chorus play all other roles in the play.Vogel’s play was first produced in 1997; won the 1997 Obie in Playwriting, the Lortel Best Play Award, the Best Off-Broadway Play from the Outer Critics Circle, the Best Play from the Drama Desk, and the Best Play from the New York Drama Critics Circle.  It also won the Pulitzer prize for drama in 1998.

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Peter Schafer: Black Comedy

Gulick Theatre: October 1-3, 2009

Directed by Ann Marie Gardinier Halstead, Assistant Professor

Set in mid-1960's London, Black Comedy focuses on Brindsley Miller, an opportunistic young sculptor who is facing one of the most important evenings of his life, the night in which he is to meet both the tyrannical father of his debutante fiancée and a millionaire patron of the arts capable of making his career. Just before his guests arrive, a fuse blows, plunging his South Kensington apartment into darkness. What follows is a series of mishaps and embarrassments and a very black comedy.

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