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THEATRE PERFORMANCES
The season is sponsored in part by Gene and Lee Seidler
All performances take place in TheatreLab in the Arts Complex.
Tickets can be purchased online at fgcu.edu/theatrelab and are $10 for the general public or $7 for students.
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THEATRE
THE MISANTHROPE
BY MOLIERE TRANSLATED BY CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE
DIRECTED BY DAN BACALZO
What value does the truth hold? Alceste fervently believes that honesty is always the best policy, but finds that not everyone agrees with him – including the woman he loves. This comedy of manners from 17th-century French playwright Moliere explores still-timely issues relating to truth, fidelity, and hypocrisy. Can an honest man find love and happiness in a world in which lying is expected, if not necessarily admired?
Tickets are $10 for the general public and $7 for students and can be purchased at fgcu.edu/theatrelab
OCTOBER 29
THROUGH
NOVEMBER 7
OCTOBER 29 & 30 and NOVEMBER 5 & 6 at 7:30 pm
OCTOBER 31 and NOVEMBER 6* & 7 at 2:00 pm
* There will be a discussion with the cast and crew following this performance
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ON BAILE'S STRAND
BY W. B. YEATSDIRECTED BY BARRY CAVIN
Yeats’ poetic play uses ancient Celtic myths and traditional lore to explore all the meanings of passion, familial bonds, political ambition, and the futile drive to control nature.
Cuchulain, a great warrior king, reluctantly swears loyalty to King Conchubar to consolidate a defense against a common enemy, Queen Aoife, with whom Cuchulain had once had a passionate affair. During the ceremony to make official the agreement between Cuchulain and Conchubar, a young stranger appears and requests to battle Cuchulain. The results from the fight cause Cuchulain to go mad and wage war against the waves of the ocean.
Tickets are $10 for the general public and $7 for students and can be purchased at fgcu.edu/theatrelab
FEBRUARY 18
THROUGH
FEBRUARY 27
FEBRUARY 18, 19, 25 and 26 at 7:30 pm
FEBRUARY 20, 26* and 27 AT 2:00 pm
* There will be a discussion with the cast and crew following this performance
STORIES OF SPOON RIVER
ADAPTED AND CO-DIRECTED BY FGCU STUDENTS AND FACILITATED BY KRISTIN MELLIAN
Every town has its secrets, but what happens when the souls of departed residents return to reveal them? In 1915, Edgar Lee Masters published a collection of free-verse first-person autobiographical epitaph poems expressing the lives, the grievances, and the manner of death of over two-hundred fictional residents of an imaginary town called Spoon River. Join FGCU's Creating New Theatre class for their devised work Stories of Spoon River based on and including poems from Masters’ Spoon River Anthology.
Tickets are $10 for the general public and $7 for students and can be purchased at fgcu.edu/theatrelab
APRIL 22
THROUGH
MAY 1
APRIL 22, 23, 29 and 30 at 7:30 pm
APRIL 24 & 30* and MAY 1 AT 2:00 pm
* There will be a discussion with the cast and crew following this performance
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