Speech, Theatre, and Digital Film Department - 2011-2012 Season
Fall 2012
Last of the Boys
by Steven Dietz
THE STORY: Ben and Jeeter fought in Vietnam, and for thirty years they have remained united by a war that divided the nation. Joined by Jeeter's new girlfriend and her off-the-grid whiskey-drinking mother, these friends gather at Ben's remote trailer for one final hurrah. As the night deepens, the past makes a return appearance, and its many ghosts come flickering to life. This is a fierce, funny, haunted play about a friendship that ends—and a war that does not.
Auditions:
Sept. 26, 2012
6:00-9:00 PM
Pierce College Theater Fort Steilacoom (CAS 320)
Parts for:
3 men (ages, one man 19-21, two men in their 50’s)
2 women (ages, one women in her 30’s, and one women in her 50’s)
Introducing guest director Steve Cooper
Steve is a Seattle freelance director and designer working for several theaters around the Puget Sound. Recent directing credits include The Who's Tommy, a world premier production of Frankenstein with Burien Little Theater. Steve also directs with Theater Schmeater and has done an original called Arrrgh, A Dinosaur ate my Spaceship, and the 2009 Seattle Times Footlight Award winner Act A Lady. Steve is also a set and lighting designer, resident designer at both Theater Schmeater and Northshore Performing Arts Center.
Show dates:
Nov. 9, 10, 16, and 17 at 7:00 PM
Location: Studio 320, the Black Box Theatre at Pierce College – Fort Steilacoom campus
Tickets are $3 for general and $2 for Pierce students.
Tickets available at the door, at the Student Programs office - Fort Steilacoom, or by phone (253) 964-6710
Winter 2013
PROOF
By David Auburn
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, Proof combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre you won't want to miss. Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions. The discovery of a mysterious notebook draws Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit?
Auditions:
January 14, 2013
3:00 to 7:00 PM
Pierce College Theater Fort Steilacoom (CAS 320)
Parts for:
2 men, 2 women
Show dates:
March 1, 2, 8 and 9 at 7:00 PM
Studio 320 Pierce College – Fort Steilacoom campus
Tickets are $3 for general and $2 for Pierce students.
Tickets available at the door, at the Student Programs office - Fort Steilacoom, or by phone (253) 964-6710
Introducing guest director Kelly Kitchens
Kelly Kitchens is a professional actor, director, and teaching artist who has been living and working in Seattle since 1997. During this time, she has worked with Book-It Repertory Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Opera, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Endangered Species Project, Theater Schmeater, Taproot Theatre, Annex Theatre, Wooden O Theatre, Seattle Public Theatre and W.E.T./Washington Ensemble Theatre. Kelly is the Artistic Associate at Seattle Public Theater, a member of the Sandbox Artists Collective, and a member of Actor's Equity Association. She holds her B.A. in Theatre and English from Vanderbilt University and her M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin.
Recent credits include directing The Cryptogram and Back, Back, Back at Seattle Public Theater; adapting The Secret Garden, directing SAAR Cemetery Project, and adapting and directing Thank You Mr. Falker and She’s Come Undone with Book-It Repertory Theater; directing Siegfried and the Ring of Fire for the Young Artist Program at Seattle Opera; performing in Sandbox Radio Shows; and performing the role of Saturninus in Titus Andronicus with upstart crow collective. Upcoming projects include directing The Santaland Diaries and The Understudy with Seattle Public Theater; directing Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar for Seattle Shakespeare Company Touring; and reprising her role as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew with Seattle Shakespeare Company.
Spring 2013
Return to Forbidden Planet
by Bob Carlton
Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Musical
Blast off on a routine flight and crash into the planet D'Illyria where a sci fi version of The Tempest set to rock and roll golden oldies unfolds with glee. The planet is inhabited by a sinister scientist, Dr. Prospero; his delightful daughter Miranda; Ariel, a faithful robot on roller skates; and an uncontrollable monster, the product of Prospero's Id, whose tentacles penetrate the space craft.
"A masterpiece.... Take one plot (Shakespeare's The Tempest), one B movie (Forbidden Planet) and for added flavor plunder the entire Shakespearean cannon for dialogue (the more pungent the plagiarism, the more piquant the final effect).... Your favorite blasts from the past ... ring out of the story with such unadulterated audacity that the cue lines themselves beg for mercy." - What's On
"Prepare to dance in the aisles." - Time Out
"The best rock and roll show in town.... You just have to laugh at the death defying puns ... and the way the songs are worked into the plot with perfect logic." - Daily Express
Show dates:
May 29 - June 1 at 7:00 PM
Studio 320 Pierce College – Fort Steilacoom campus
Tickets are $3 for general and $2 for Pierce students.
Tickets available at the door, at the Student Programs office - Fort Steilacoom, or by phone (253) 964-6710
TEN-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
This festival of new plays continues the celebration of all aspects of diversity of the student experience at Pierce College. It also offers an engaging and inclusive process for all students to participate in the enriching experience theatre brings to a student’s overall life experience. Don’t miss it!
Auditions: (dates to be announced)
Pierce College Theater Fort Steilacoom (CAS 320)
Parts For: 10+ men and women
Show dates: (dates to be announced)
Studio 320 Pierce College – Fort Steilacoom campus
Tickets are $3 for general and $2 for Pierce students.
Tickets available at the door, at the Student Programs office - Fort Steilacoom, or by phone (253) 964-6710
