2009-2010
Main Stage
Room Service
Written by John Murray and Allen Boretz • Directed by Martin McClendon
Showtimes:
Oct. 9-10, 15-16 • 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 11 • 3 p.m.
Oct. 17 • 2 p.m.Synopsis:
New York, 1937: Producer Gordon Miller is rehearsing Broadway's next hit play. It’s a great show, but without investors it's going nowhere. The author is thinking of giving the rights to someone else, and to top it off, he and his cast are about to get locked out of their hotel! If he can just stay in his room long enough to meet the right backer. Gordon's crew of theatrical con-men (and women!) will have to employ every trick in the book to outwit and outlast the hotel manager and the bill collectors, convince a skittish backer, and hold on to their show until the final curtain!
Lysistrata
Written by Aristophanes • Directed by Herschel Kruger
Showtimes
Nov. 6-7, 12-14 • 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 8 • 3 p.m.Synopsis
The third and concluding play of Aristophanes’ War and Peace series. It is now the twenty-first year of the Peloponnesian War and there seems as little prospect of peace as ever. A desperate state of things demands a desperate remedy in this comical account of one woman’s extraordinary mission to end the war. Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from theirhusbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace.
Far Away 
Written by Caryl Churchill •Guest Directed by Linda Gillum
Showtimes
Feb. 12-13, 18-20 • 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 14 • 3 p.m.Synopsis
A mysterious journey of a girl who witnesses beauty and destruction in a world where humans, animals and the elements conspire against each other. Parental figures and animals protect their
young while siding with oppositional forces. Caryl Churchill’s powerful, haunting play is alluring and disturbing and will stay with you long after you leave the theatre.
One Day in the Season of Rain
Written by Mohan Rakesh • New Translation by Aparna Dharwadker and Vinay Dharwadker
Directed by Neil ScharnickShowtimes
March 19-20 • 7:30 p.m.
March 25-27 • 7:30 p.m.
March 21 • 3 p.m.Synopsis
As rain soaks the Indian countryside, local poet Kalidasa has a difficult decision to make. He has been invited to claim the title of court poet—a title promising fame and glory. However, to accept this honor would mean leaving behind the village that bore him and the woman who inspires him. This newly retranslated play is both a touching love story and a modern imagining of the life and trials surrounding India’s greatest classical poet.
Sunday in the Park with George
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim • Book by James Lapine
Directed by Herschel KrugerShowtimes
April 23-25 • 7:30 p.m.
April 29-30 • 7:30 p.m.
May 1 • 7:30 p.m.Synopsis
Originally nominated for ten Tony Awards and winning the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this Broadway musical was inspired by the painting, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte,” by Georges Seurat. A complex work revolving around a fictionalized Seurat immersed in single-minded concentration while painting the masterpiece.
Higher Altitudes
Choreographed by Carthage Dance Faculty
Annie Hackett and Stacy PottingerShowtime
May 14-15 • 7:30 p.m.
Synopsis
The Theatre Department produces the third annual dance concert featuring choreography by Carthage dance faculty Annie Hackett and Stacy Pottinger.
Studio Season
W;T
Written by Margaret Edson • Directed by Thomas Novak
Showtime
Dec. 10-12 • 7:30 p.m.
Synopsis
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets
of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness—and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.
Rabbit Hole
Written by David Lindsey-Abaire • Directed by Dana Peters
Feb. 5-7 • 7:30 p.m.
Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting
perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
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