2012-2013 MAINSTAGE SEASON
Show # 1 – Almost Maine by John Cariani - Troutt Theater
On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night's dream.
Ticket Prices: General Admission - $10, Faculty, Alumni, Student, Senior - $5, Belmont Student - $0
Friday, September 28th at 7:30pm Thursday, October 4th at 7:30pm
Saturday, September 29th at 2:00pm Friday, October 5th at 7:30pm
Saturday, September 29th at 7:30pm Saturday, October 6th at 2:00pm
Sunday, September 30th at 2:00pm Sunday, October 7th at 2:00pm
Show # 2 – Outside Paradise by Bill Feehely - Black Box Theater
Collaboration with Actors Bridge
Outside Paradise follows the life of literary legends F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald through the jazz age and into infamy. Funded by a Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission Creation Grant, this new work examines the volatile passion, deep commitment and remarkable work of this iconic pair and their closest confidants.
General Admission - $18, Outside Students - $15, Faculty, Staff, Alumni with ID, and Senior Citizens - $12, Actors Equity Association Members with ID - $5, Belmont Students - $0
Friday, November 9th at 7:30pm
Saturday, November 10th at 2:00pm ***
Saturday, November 10th at 7:30pm
Sunday, November 11th at 2:00pm ***
Wednesday, November 14th at 8:00pm ***
Thursday, November 15th at 7:30pm ***
Friday, November 16th at 7:30pm
Saturday, November 17th at 7:30pm
Sunday, November 18th at 2:00pm ***
*** Convocation Performances – All others will not be open for Convocation Credit
Show #3 – On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning
Three `sister sojourners', each a prototypical Victorian lady explorer, equipped with dialog as pithy as their helmets, thwack their machetes through the wilderness while telling tales of past jaunts among the natives. As intrepid trekkers, they put the lie to any charge that they are representatives of a weaker sex. Mr Overmyer has written a play that is joyfully feminist. Heroines to their heart, the explorers can accommodate themselves to any emergency (natural or man-made), although they are momentarily disoriented as they approach modern times.
In the play there is wit within the palaver. As one traveler says, `I have seen the future and it is slang'. The author himself is an ecologist of language and a shrewd observer of our quest to control our environment—and the environment of others....
Ticket Prices: General Admission - $10, Faculty, Alumni, Student, Senior - $5, Belmont Student - $0
Thursday, February 14th at 7:30pm Thursday, February 21st at 7:30pm
Saturday, February 16th at 2:00pm Friday, February 22nd at 7:30pm
Saturday, February 16th at 7:30pm Saturday, February 23rd - TBA
Sunday, February 17th at 2:00pm Sunday, February 24th at 2:00pm
Show #4 – Senior Capstone in Rep - The Black Box Theater
A – The Flies – by Jean-Paul Sartre, directed by Bekah Reimer (Senior)
The ancient Greek legend of Orestes, retold in modern idiom. The story is true to the original, wherein Orestes returns to his home after a long exile to behold the disgusting corruption in the palace and to find his father, the king, dead, and his mother married to his murderer. Upon this frame Sartre has imposed the symbols of a bold morality, giving the characters the suggestion of modern counterparts and heightening the scenes of the play with incomparable theatrical effects.
B- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds – by Paul Zindel, Adrienne Hall – Actor (Senior)
Frowzy, acid-tongued, supporting herself and her two daughters by taking in a decrepit old boarder, Beatrice Hunsdorfer wreaks a petty vengeance on everybody around her. One daughter, Ruth, is a pretty but highly strung girl subject to convulsions; while the younger daughter, Matilda, plain and almost pathologically shy, has an intuitive gift for science. Encouraged by her teacher, Tillie undertakes a gamma ray experiment with marigolds that wins a prize at her high school—and also brings on the shattering climax of the play. Proud and yet jealous, too filled with her own hurts to accept her daughter's success, Beatrice can only maim when she needs to love and deride when she wants to praise. Tortured, acerbic, slatternly, she is as much a victim of her own nature as of the cruel lot that has been hers. And yet, as Tillie's experiment proves, something beautiful and full of promise can emerge from even the most barren, afflicted soil.
C - The Miss Firecracker Contest – by Beth Henley, Mary Cullen Pennington, Natalie Thompson, & Mason Sullivan (Seniors)
The place is the small Mississippi town of Brookhaven, the time a few days before the Fourth of July. Carnelle Scott (known locally as "Miss Hot Tamale") is rehearsing furiously for the Miss Firecracker Contest—hoping that a victory will salvage her tarnished reputation and allow her to leave town in a blaze of glory. The unexpected arrival of her cousin Elain, a former Miss Firecracker winner, (who has walked out on her rich but boring husband and her two small children) complicates matters a bit, as does the repeated threat of Elain's eccentric brother, Delmount, (recently released from a mental institution) to sell the family homestead and decamp for New Orleans. But, aided by a touchingly awkward seamstress named Popeye (who is hopelessly smitten by Delmount) and several other cheerfully nutty characters, Carnelle perseveres—leading to a denouement of unparalleled hilarity, compassion and moving lyricism as all concerned finally escape their unhappy pasts and turn hopefully toward what must surely be a better future.
Ticket Prices: General Admission - $8, Faculty, Alumni, Student, Senior - $4, Belmont Student - $0
Friday, April 5th at 7:30pm A
Saturday, April 6th at 7:30pm B
Sunday, April 7th at 7:30pm C
Thursday, April 11th at 7:30pm A
Friday, April 12th at 7:30pm C
Saturday, April 13th at 2:00pm B
Saturday, April 13th at 7:30pm A
Sunday, April 14th at 2:00pm B
Thursday, April 18th at 7:30pm C
Friday, April 19th at 7:30pm B
Saturday, April 20th at 2:00pm A
Sunday, April 21st at 2:00pm C
Mixed Bill VIII – Troutt Theater
Ticket Prices: General Admission - $10, Faculty, Alumni, Student, Senior - $5, Belmont Student - $0
Friday, April 12th at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 13th at 7:30pm
Sunday, April 14th at 7:30pm
Non-Rep Senior Capstone Series Performance Dates:
All events are free with an invited audience. These productions are an extension of TDR 4015 The Theatre Senior Capstone. These productions are not for convocation. All productions are in the BLT.
#1 – The Complete History of America, Abridged by Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor – DJ Clark (Senior)
From Washington to Watergate, yea verily from the Bering Straits to Baghdad, from New World to New World Order –
The Complete History of America (abridged) is a ninety minute rollercoaster ride through the glorious quagmire that is American History, reminding us that it’s not the length of your history that matters – it’s what you’ve done with it!
Friday, September 21st @ 7:30pm
Saturday, September 22nd @ 7:30pm
Sunday, September 23rd @ 7:30pm
#2 - Woolgatherer – by William Mastrosimone – Directed by Bethany Langford (Senior)
Rose, a shy dimestore salesgirl whose life centers around reveries and daydreams, lives in a dreary Philadelphia apartment. Into her life saunters Cliff, a hard working, hard drinking truck driver. He is rough and witty and just as starved for love as she is. Produced to great success at New York's Circle Repertory, this delicate two-character drama starred Peter Weller and Patricia Wettig. The Woolgatherer features several excellent monologues
Friday, October 19th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, October 20th @ 7:30pm
Sunday, October 21th @ 7:30pm
#3 – Proof by David Auburn – Hanna Walters & Meredith Locke (Seniors)
Proof is the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Proof focuses on Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician in his youth who was later unable to function without her help. His death has brought into her midst both her sister, Claire, who wants to take Catherine back to New York with her, and Hal, a former student of Catherine's father who hopes to find some hint of Robert's genius among his incoherent scribblings. As she and Hal become attracted to each other, they push at the edges of each other's knowledge, considering not only the unpredictability of genius but also the human instinct toward love and trust.
Friday, November 30th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, December 1st @ 7:30pm
Sunday, December 2nd @ 7:30pm
#4 Sarah Edwards working with the Nashville Children’s Theatre
#5 – Junior Directing/Theatre Ed. Evening of Short Plays – Caroline Barnard, Casey Flyth
Friday, February 8th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, February 9th @ 7:30pm
Sunday, February 10th @ 7:30pm
#6 – Nine Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo – Jolinda Beck
A portrait of the extraordinary (and ordinary) lives of a whole cross-section of Iraqi women:
a sexy painter, a radical Communist, doctors, exiles, wives and lovers. This work delves into the many conflicting aspects of what it means to be a woman in the age-old war zone that is Iraq. An unusually timely meditation on the ancient, the modern and the feminine in a country overshadowed by war
Friday, April 26th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, April 27th @ 7:30pm
Sunday, April 28th @ 7:30pm