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The Full Monty
book by Terrence McNally; music and lyrics by David Yazbeck
October 16-19, 2008
Adult Language/Adult Situations
This Broadway musical was nominated for 9 Tony Awards and won the Drama Desk Award in 2001.
The Americanized version, adapted from the 1997 British film of the same name, features six u
nemployed Buffalo, NY steelworkers. Low on both cash and prospects, the men decide to present
a strip act ("the FULL Monty") at a local club after seeing their wives' enthusiasm for a touring
company of professional strippers. As they prepare for the show, they must work through their
fears, self-consciousness, and anxieties, to overcome their inner demons and find strength in
their camaraderie.
The Time of Your Life
by William Saroyan
November 20-23, 2008
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1940, The Time of Your Life
is set in a seedy San Francisco waterfront bar just before the start of World War II. Numerous
colorful but distressed characters drink at the bar while searching for something more out of
life than they have. The action centers on Joe, a rich young man who does not have to work,
who can spend most of his time drinking, doing small favors for people, and sending his
simpleminded friend, Tom, on crazy errands. The people coming and going in the bar interact
with Joe, the bar's Italian immigrant owner, Nick, and one another. The tension builds
when Blick, a spiteful vice cop, returns to the bar to make trouble for Nick and a sad
prostitute named Kitty Duval.
DanceTech: Artistry in Motion
Original Choreography by faculty and students
January 22-25, 2009
An exciting evening of original jazz, modern, ballet, and hip-hop choreography created by Texas
Tech University Dance faculty, undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Theatre
and Dance, and guest artists.
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
March 5-8, 2009
Adult Language/Adult Situations
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is an exuberant comedy and an original revision
of Shakespeare's Othello and Romeo and Juliet, which won of the Canadian Governor
General's Award for Drama in 1990. In it Constance Ledbelly, a drab assistant professor working
on her dissertation, deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original source for the
tragedies, and is transported into the plays themselves. She visits Juliet and Desdemona, has a
hand in saving them, and finds out what these women are about. In true Shakespearean spirit,
Constance plunders the plays and creates something new, all the while engaging in a personal
voyage of self-discovery. With an abundance of twists, fights, dances, seductions, and wild
surprises, the play is an absolute joy of theatricality.
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
April 23-26, 2009
Death of a Salesman is considered a classic of American theater. Viewed by many as a
caustic attack on the American Dream of achieving wealth and success without regard for principle,
Death of a Salesman made both Arthur Miller and the character Willy Loma household names.
The play raises a counterexample to Aristotle's characterization of tragedy as the downfall of a
great man, whether through a flaw in his character or a mistake he has made.
Death of a Salesman was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, receiving the Pulitzer Prize
for Drama in 1949, the 1949 Tony Award for Best Play, as well as the New York Drama Critics'
Circle Award for Best Play. And it was the first play to win these three major awards, helping
establish Miller as an internationally-known playwright.
frozen
by Bryony Lavery
October 27-31, 2008
One evening ten-year-old Rhona goes missing. Her mother, Nancy, retreats into a state of frozen hope.
Agnetha, an American academic, comes to England to research a thesis: "Serial Killing—A Forgivable Act?"
Then there's Ralph, a loner who's looking for some distraction. Drawn together by horrific
circumstances, these three embark on a long, dark journey which finally curves upward into the light.
Angry, humane and compassionate, frozen is an extraordinary play that entwines the lives of a murderer,
the mother of one of his victims and his psychologist to explore our capacity for forgiveness, remorse
and change after an act that would seem to rule them out entirely.
We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!
by Dario Fo
February 9-15, 2009
In a new translation We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo, is a side-splitting,
chaotic comedy of errors. Think classic commedia dell'arte meets The Honeymooners. At the heart of all the high
jinks is a basic human need: hunger and the very human desire to satisfy that need with one's dignity intact.
In We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! simple housewife Antonia is forced into joining a crowd of women in
"liberating" groceries due to poverty and merciless price-gouging in a world where both government and business
conspire against the working class.
Raider Red's One-Act Play Spectacular
Original one-acts by Texas Tech University students
March 30-April 5, 2009
Raider Red's Awesome Dance Spectacular
Featuring original choreography by Texas Tech University students
April 9-11, 2009
The Department of Theatre and Dance announces the annual production of Raider Red's Awesome Dance Spectacular (RRADS).
RRADS features original choreography in a variety of dance genres with an emphasis on fresh physicality and small
ensemble work. RRADS promises to be an evening of diverse and original student works of ballet, modern, jazz and contemporary styles.
This production is a tremendous opportunity for students to develop and showcase their choreography pieces to the community.
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MAINSTAGE TICKET INFORMATION:
Individual tickets are priced at $12. Season tickets are $35 for the four plays and an optional DanceTech
performance. There is special pricing for groups of ten or more. All Mainstage Theatre productions are in the
Mainstage Theatre--east entrance of the Charles E. Maedgen, Jr. Theatre—located on 18th Street between Boston and
Flint Avenues. Tickets may be purchased by mail (check or credit card), over the phone (credit card), or in
person (check, credit card, or cash). The main box office (east entrance) hours are Monday through Saturday from
noon to 5:30 p.m., excepting holidays. The main box office (east entrance) is open one hour before all Mainstage
Theatre performances. For reservations and information, call (806) 742-3603.
LAB THEATRE TICKET INFORMATION:
Individual tickets are priced at $10. There is special pricing for groups of ten or more. All Lab Theatre
productions are in the Lab Theatre--west entrance of the Charles E. Maedgen, Jr. Theatre—located on 18th Street
between Boston and Flint Avenues. Tickets may be purchased by mail (check or credit card), over the phone (credit
card), or in person (check, credit card, or cash). The main box office (east entrance) hours are Monday through
Saturday from noon to 5:30 p.m., excepting holidays. The Lab Theatre box office (west entrance) is open one hour
before all Lab Theatre performances. For reservations and information, call (806) 742-3603.
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