Theatre at Southeastern 2013-2014 Season
The Diviners by Jim Leonard, Jr.
October 3-5, 2013
Montgomery Auditorium
Tickets: $7.00| *Students: $5.00
The play begins and ends with elegies spoken by two of the townspeople describing what happened the day of Buddy’s tragedy. The body of the play is the memory of the time leading to the climatic event. Buddy is searching,(divining), for water for local farmer, Basil. Luella, Basil’s wife, refuses to believe that the boy can find water. Set in the early days of the depression in a small southern Indiana town named Zion, Buddy Layman is a mentally-challenged boy whose sweet nature touches most people he meets.. One day a stranger named C.C. Showers passes through Zion looking for work and food. C.C. takes an immediate liking to Buddy and vice versa. C.C. is able to relate to Buddy in ways that most people aren’t. The two become close friends and C.C. soon finds himself as Buddy’s mentor and teacher. Jennie Mae is attracted to C.C., and though he likes her, Jennie Mae isn’t the only single girl near Zion that finds C.C. a catch of a man. The town’s dry goods owner has her eye set on bringing old fashioned revival to the community. The local diner owner would love to see the church rebuilt – and all the Sunday customers it would bring to her establishment. CC’s relationship with the people of the town changes drastically when they learned that he was a former preacher who has given up preaching. That knowledge changes everything and leads to a horrible tragedy.
*Discounts will be not offered online or at the door.
Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon November 21-23, 2013
Visual and Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $10.00 | *Students: $5.00
This romantic comedy focuses on newlyweds, Corie and Paul, as they begin married life in a tiny 5th floor walkup apartment in a mid-Manhattan brownstone. Paul is a strait-laced attorney, Corie a far more spontaneous free spirit. The young couple must contend with a lack of heat, a skylight that leaks snow, several long flights of stairs, oddball neighbor Victor Velasco, and Corie’s well-meaning mother. Adjusting to married life isn’t so easy! The first act of Barefoot dramatizes a making of a new life, and its second builds to a near-breakup of the marriage.
*Discounts will be not offered online or at the door.
Chicago by John Kander and Fred Ebb
February 20-22, 2014
Montgomery Auditorium
Tickets: $15.00 | *Students: $10.00
AIn roaring twenties Chicago, Roxie Hart, an ambitious chorus girl, murders her lover. She then convinces her gullible husband, Amos, that her lover was in fact a burglar. Amos agrees to take the rap until the police convince him that the burglar was in fact Roxie’s lover. Thus, Roxie goes to jail and joins another famous stage performer and murderess, Velma Kelly. Both Roxie and Velma are headline hunters seeking to capitalize on pre-trial publicity for the sake of acquittal and stage careers. In the end their tricky lawyer, Billy Flynn, manages to get both Roxie and Velma free. However, another woman shoots up the courthouse and steels the limelight – effectively ending the careers of both Roxie and Velma.
*Discounts will be not offered online or at the door.
The American Association of University Women present:
The Annual Children’s Show
April 7-10, 2014
Montgomery Auditorium | Tickets: $2 - May be purchased at the door on the night of the performance.
Dramapalooza Theatre Festival
April 21-25, 2014| Tickets: Free
Individual times: TBA
The Time is Out of Joint: A Study of Hamlet
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This 50-minute production provides all the pageantry, drama, and action of the original but in an abbreviated format. Six highly talented actors play multiple parts as they navigate the classic text and plot of the original. The character of Hamlet himself is divided among three actors who, respectively, play his Intellect, Heart, and Passion.
*Discounts will be not offered online or at the door.
