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The Mandrake October 5-8, 1983A play by Niccolo Machiavelli Translated by Wallace Shawn
Production Staff Director: James Fisher Scenic and Lighting Designer: Kenneth Kloth Costume Designer: Laura Conners Stage Manager: Eric Hiser '86 Student Assistants: Cho Ky Pham '84, Jim Kurtz '85, Chris Ferris '86, Jerry Shelton
Cast List Callimac: Kyle Carr '85 Sir: Kenneth Ogorek '87 Liguri: Curt Hunter '87 Lord Nicia: Adam Crowe '85 Lucrezia: Jennifer Ostermeier Sostrata: Linda Ostermeier Brother Timothy: Michael Abbott '85 A Woman: Susan Swan A Beggar: Douglas Bradburn '84
Production Assistance Sound: Brian Terpstra '85 Graphics: Laura Conners Machiavelli’s The Mandrake, written sometime between 1512 and 1520, has been half-hidden for centuries in the shadow of The Prince. Only recently has the play received adequate academic recognition as the unrivaled masterpiece of Italian comic theater. T.B. Macaulay has said that The Mandrake “is superior to the best of Goldoni and inferior only to the best of Molière.” This page is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the theatre productions performed at Wabash College. If you have information not included on this page, please contact the Theater Department or Professor Dwight Watson (watsond@wabash.edu). |
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A Doll's HouseNovember 16-19, 1983A play by Henrik Ibsen Translated by Michael Meyer
Production Staff Director: Dwight Watson Assistant Director: Michael Abbott '85 Scenic and Lighting Designer: Kenneth Kloth Costume Designer: Laura Conners Stage Manager: Greg Hockemeyer '85 Asst. Stage Manager: Douglas Bradburn '84 Student Assistants: Cho Ky Pham '84, Jim Kurtz '85, Chris Ferris '86, Jerry Shelton
Cast List Torvald Helmer: Peter Bankart Nora: Dana K. Warner Dr. Rank: Dan Jacoby '84 Mr. Linde: Linda Ostermeier Nils Krogstad: Abbott A. Smith '85 Ivar: Jason Foos Bob: Ben Swan Emmy: Meghan Carlson Anne-Marie: Linda Stover A Porter: Douglas Bradburn '84
Production Assistance Sound: Rodney Arnett '85 Light Crew: Lee Darmon '84, Tim Wohlford '84 Stage Crew: Whitney Stuart '85 Graphics: Laura Conners
Henrik Ibsen was the pioneer who opened the new frontiers of the modern drama and violated all the unwritten taboos of the nineteenth-century theater. Whatever theme he touched, Ibsen brought light into the dark corners of the soul and the society, and with it his grim humor, scathing irony, and his wealth of compassionate understanding for weak and fallible humanity. In A Doll's House, one of his finest plays, Ibsen fought against the subjugation of modern woman.
This page is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the theatre productions performed at Wabash College. If you have information not included on this page, please contact the Theater Department or Professor Dwight Watson (watsond@wabash.edu).
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The Real Inspector HoundFebruary 8–11, 1984A play by Tom Stoppard
Production Staff Director: Dwight Watson Assistant Director: John Hiester '86 Scenic and Lighting Designer: Kenneth Kloth Costume Designer: Laura Conners Stage Manager: Abbott Smith '85 Student Assistants: Jim Kurtz '85, Chris Ferris '86, John McGovern '87, Michael Abbott '85, Jerry Shelton
Cast List Moon: Dan Jacoby '84 Birdboot: Michael Abbott '85 Mr. Drudge: Michael Beason '86 Simon: Stig Hammond '84 Felicity: Jennifer Ostermeier Cynthia: Jamie Ritchie Watson Magnus: Greg Hockemeyer '85 Inspector Hound: John Ohmer '84 BBC Voice: Tim Thobe '84
Production Assistance Sound: Ben McCormick '84 Graphics: Laura Conners
Tom Stoppard, author of such plays as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Travesties, turned savage satire in The Real Inspector Hound. Stoppard has become one of the most widely acclaimed of the current English dramatists and his works are produced regularly in European and American theaters. Of The Real Inspector Hound, the London Observer said, “…it’s time we stopped dismissing comedy as an inferior genre, and thanked Heaven for a new comic master.”
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GalileoApril 11–14 and May 11–12, 1984A play by Bertolt Brecht
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Director: James Fisher
That the word “Brechtian” has entered the vocabulary of theater and film criticism and is to be found not only in professional journals but in the popular press as well, would testify to the profound influence Bertolt Brecht and his “epic theater” have had on the contemporary theater world. More than an historical drama, Galileo poses many troubling questions in an age of increased technology and scientific discovery “…Galileo is entirely contemporary in view of the events of our atomic age and in relation to certain problems of conscience.”
This page is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the theatre productions performed at Wabash College. If you have information not included on this page, please contact the Theater Department or Professor Dwight Watson (watsond@wabash.edu).
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