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2001-2002 Season |
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| Greetings….. Once again, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to another season of outstanding theatre at Boise State University. The Department of Theatre Arts is proud to announce an exceptional lineup of great plays, beginning with contemporary British playwright David Hare’s provocative investigation of the sexes in The Blue Room, followed by Bertolt Brecht’s epic story of a woman willing to risk almost anything on the battlefield in order to protect her business in Mother Courage and Her Children, and closing with Molière’s timeless perspective on hypocrisy and authority, Tartuffe. We believe rather strongly that such magnificently crafted and highly respected plays can offer all of us the most profound theatre experiences. Our season also includes two Theatre Major Association Showcases (in December and May) and two student Dance Concerts. The TMA Showcases, performed in Stage II of the Morrison Center, feature an exciting and eclectic variety of student directed, performed and designed projects. Oftentimes, many of the projects are written by students as well. In addition, the student Dance Concerts, also performed in December and May in Stage II, features a wide variety of student choreographed and performed dance works. As with our mainstage productions, the Showcases and Dance Concerts emphasize the tremendous talent, energy, and spirit that our students bring to their training and studies in the performing arts. Quite naturally, the most important element in our program is you. We in the department study the many theoretical facets of theatre in the classroom and engage with all levels of practical production in the theatre itself. But our work is never complete without the performance, and performance requires an audience. We want you to know that we value your attendance and the commitment you are making to our program. As the center of theatre study and training in southern Idaho and as one of the leading academic theatre programs in the region, we welcome you and appreciate your support of the next generation of performing artists. Cordially, |
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The Blue Room By David Hare Stage II, Morrison Center |
David
Hare’s adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, depicting a series of
encounters between men and women whose sexual lives intertwine like a daisy chain. An
intimate and provocative exploration of the gap between the sexes, and the Freudian
subject of projection and desire, played against a bittersweet, contemporary landscape. Characters: The Girl , The Cab Driver, The Au Pair, The Student, The Married Woman, The Politician, The Model, The Playwright, The Actress, and The Aristocrat The play is set in one of the great cities of the world, in present day. "Schnitzler was not only Freud’s almost exact contemporary. He was also, like Freud, like Chekhov, a doctor. His essential subject is the gulf between what we imagine, what we remember, and what we actually experience. You have to wait years (in fact for Marcel Proust to stop partygoing and get on with his great novel) before you find a European author having the prescience to chart this treacherous, twentieth-century territory of projection and desire with as much longing and insight as Schnitzler." David Hare, 1998 NOTE: Strong Language and adult content. |
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Mother
Courage and By Bertolt Brecht |
Brecht’s
scathing treatise on the business of war. The play, written shortly before WWII as a
warning to the Danes against war profiteering, focuses on a less-than-heroic woman
striving to survive with her family on the battlefields of the Thirty Years’ War.
With a combination of pathos and burlesque, Brecht mocks her recklessness while
sympathizing with her plight. "War, which is a continuation of business by other means, makes the human virtues fatal to their possessors." Bertolt Brecht Any reflection on theatre and on revolution must come to terms with Brecht, who brought about this situation himself: the entire force of his work opposes the reactionary myth of unconscious genius; its greatness is the kind which best suits our period, the greatness of responsibility; it is a work which is in a state of "complicity" with the world, with our world; a knowledge of Brecht, a reflection on Brecht, in a word, Brechtian criticism is by definition extensive with the problematics of our time. We must tirelessly repeat this truth: knowing Brecht is of a different order of importance from knowing Shakespeare or Gogol; because it is for us, precisely, that Brecht has written his plays, and not for eternity. Brechtian criticism will therefore be written by the spectator, the reader, the consumer, and not the exegete; it is a criticism of a concerned person. Roland Barthes, 1956 NOTE: Suitable for all audiences, but may be more enjoyable for those over 12 |
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Fall Dance
Concert |
TMA Fall Showcase December 12th - 15th, 2001 Stage II, 7:30 pm |
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Tartuffe Stage II, Morrison Center |
Molière’s
classic comedy about the follies of self-deception and the potential destructiveness of
absolute authority. Orgon, a wealthy Frenchman, has come under the spell of a man named
Tartuffe who preaches an extreme form of Christian morality. Everyone in Orgon’s
household sees Tartuffe as an imposter, except Orgon and his mother. But Orgon has
absolute power over his family and so the complaints of his wife, his daughter, his son,
his in-laws and his friends are all to no avail. Until…… Sire, As the duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them, I believed that in my occupation I could do nothing better than attack the vices of my age by making them ridiculous; and as hypocrisy is undoubtedly one of the most common, most improper, and most dangerous, I thought, Sire, that I would perform a service for all good men of your kingdom if I wrote a comedy which denounced hypocrites and placed in proper view all of the contrived poses of these incredibly virtuous men, all of the concealed villainies of these counterfeit believers who would trap others with a fraudulent piety and a pretended virtue. Molière, to King Louis XIV of France, 1664, in his first of three petitions defending "Tartuffe" NOTE: Suitable for all ages, but may be more enjoyable for those over 12. |
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Spring Dance
Concert |
TMA Spring
Showcase |
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Enjoying the Intimacy of Stage II |
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Select-a-Seat Tickets |
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