THEATER EMORY 2008-2009 SEASON
October 2-11, 2008
The Comedy of David Ives
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Theater Laboratory
G.A. $18; discount category members $14; Emory students $6
Theater Emory presents an evening of witty one-acts from several collections of Ives plays. These focus on couples whose conversations go awry and restart, as they revise what they’ve said in search of what they really mean. Please refer to the website for specific play titles and directors.
One acts performed each evening:
Enigma Variations directed byJohn Ammerman
Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread directed byMichael Evenden
The Universal Language directed byTim McDonough
Arabian Nights directed byDonald McManus
English Made Simple directed byMary Lynn Owen
Sure Thing directed byLisa Paulsen
Thursday, October 2, 2008- 7:00 p.m. Opening Night Performance
Friday, October 3, 2008- 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 4, 2008- 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 5, 2008- 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008- 7:00 p.m. Pay What You Can Performance
Thursday, October 9, 2008- 7:00 p.m.
Friday, October 10, 2008- 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 11, 2008- 7:00 p.m. Closing Night Performance
November 14-23, 2008
Don Juan Comes Back from the War
By Ödön von Horváth
Directed by Janice Akers
Mary Gray Munroe Theater, Dobbs Univ. Center
G.A. $18; discount category members $14; Emory students $6
A modern Don Juan, much changed by his experience of war, longs to reunite with his true love. He comes back to discover that in a world of hungry women it is difficult not to be Don Juan; the old myth is reversed in that women are the seducers. This remarkably resonant play by Ödön von Horváth is full of biting humor. Directed by Janice Akers.
Thursday, November 13, 2008- 7:00 p.m. Special Preview Night-All tickets half price!
Available by phone or at the door only
Friday, November 14, 2008- 7:00 p.m. Opening Night Performance
Saturday, November 15, 2008- 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 16, 2008- 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008- 7:00 p.m. Pay What You Can Performance
Thursday, November 20, 2008- 7:00 p.m.
Friday, November 21, 2008- 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 22, 2008- 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 23, 2008- 2:00 p.m. Closing Performance
February 2-22, 2009
Brave New Works 2009
{Titles, dates, and times TBA}
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Theater Laboratory
The Playwriting Center of Theater Emory produces Brave New Works, a festival of new play readings and exploratory workshops. Playwrights, adaptors, composers, and dramaturgs will be in residence at Emory to work on plays in development, with a combined company of student and professional actors. Most plays will culminate in a staged reading. Please check website or contact the Arts at Emory Box Office starting in January 2009 for more information.
April 17-26, 2009
Peer Gynt
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Tim McDonough
Mary Gray Munroe Theater, Dobbs Univ. Center
G.A. $18; discount category members $14; Emory students $6
Peer Gynt, a great modern classic by Henrik Ibsen, was written as a poem in dramatic form – Ibsen did not imagine that it would be staged – and this is its great challenge: since the writer felt free to ignore the limitations of stagecraft, this text still pushes the boundaries of theater.
Young Peer, a fanciful, irresponsible misfit who dreams of being Emperor of the world, flees Norway in pursuit of his destiny. After misadventures all over the world, Peer returns home, where at long last he realizes that he has been in flight from his true self. In the story’s poignant conclusion, Peer learns what it means to be human. Brimful of comic energy and gripping imagery, this saga has seemed urgently relevant as an image of the human condition ever since its publication in 1867. Directed by Tim McDonough.
Thursday, April 16, 2009- 7:00 p.m. Special Preview Night-All tickets half price! Available by phone or at the door only!
Friday, April 17, 2009- 7:00 p.m. Opening Night Performance
Saturday, April 18, 2009- 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 19, 2009- 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009- 7:00 p.m. Pay What You Can Performance
Thursday, April 23, 2009- 7:00 p.m.
Friday, April 24, 2009- 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 25, 2009- 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 26, 2009- 2:00 p.m. Closing Performance
For tickets & information:
Call 404-727-5050 or visit www.theater.emory.edu
