St. Clair County Community College’s Theatre Discipline has selected their upcoming productions for the 2012-13 academic year. The fall semester will feature comedies from two of America’s funniest playwrights, Neil Simon and A.R. Gurney, while the winter term has two award-winning dramas from Edward Albee and Margaret Edson.
October 18-21, 2012
Thursday 5:30 p.m. (audience talkback following), Friday & Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2:00 p.m.
Office Hours
By A.R. Gurney
Directed by Elaine Schatzline-Behr
Out with the old and in with the new! Across college campuses in the 1970s, teachers and students engaged in a battle of their own – making education relevant. Office Hours tackles the Great Books curriculcum and puts dead white men to the test in this comedy from the author of Sylvia, Love Letters, and The Dining Room.
“Literate and funny… Even if you never saw a slide-rule, you’ll enjoy this often-amusing look at the ups and downs of beleaguered academics buffeted by the tides of a societal revolution.” – Associated Press
November 29-30 & December 1-2, 2012
Thursday 5:30 p.m. (audience talkback following), Friday & Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2:00 p.m.
Biloxi Blues
By Neil Simon
Directed by Tom Kephart
The second in Mr. Simon’s autobiographical trilogy, Biloxi Blues takes Eugene Jerome from Brighton Beach to Biloxi, Mississippi as a young Army recruit during the Second World War. He learns a little about basic military training and much more about life as he develops his “writer’s sensibility” at boot camp. Eugene and his fellow recruits suffer under a hard-nosed sergeant, take a group visit to the local whorehouse and officially become adults.
“Joyous and unexpectedly rewarding.” – The New York Times
March 21-24, 2013
Thursday 5:30 p.m. (audience talkback following), Friday & Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2:00 p.m.
Wit
By Margaret Edson
Directed by Tom Kephart
In her extraordinary first play, Margaret Edson created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English, has spent years studying the difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne. When she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, she comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.
“A dazzling and humane new play that you will remember until your dying day.” – New York Magazine
May 16-19, 2013
Thursday 5:30 p.m. (audience talkback following), Friday & Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2:00 p.m.
Edward Albee’s
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
By Edward Albee
Directed by Tom Kephart
George, a professor at a small college, and his wife, Martha, have returned home, drunk from a party. Martha announces that she has invited an opportunistic new professor at the college and his naïve new bride to stop by for a nightcap. The drinks flow and inhibitions melt. George and Martha’s inhuman bitterness toward one another is provoked by the secret that has been the foundation for their relationship. In the end, George and Martha’s mysteries are exposed, revealing the degrading mess they have made of their lives.
Tickets for all SC4 Theatre Discipline shows are $7.00 for adults, $5.00 for students and seniors, and are available at the box office window prior to each performance. For more information, visit the Theatre Discipline’s web page or Facebook page.
The 2012 Blue Water Film Festival is currently accepting entries for the fourth annual festival, which will be on October 5th and 6th in downtown Port Huron.
