current season
The UIS Theatre Program is proud to present our 2011 - 2012 Season
Spring Production
Directed by Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson
FEBRUARY 24, 25, 26 & MARCH 1, 2, 3, 2012
For AUDITION information, please click on "Auditions."
Play Description
Full Length, Comedy
3m, 1f
Interior
TRUE WEST explores the challenging and volatile relationship between brothers Austin and Lee. Austin is an aspiring screenwriter, Lee an unsavory drifter. Austin's attempt at creating his own screenplay to pitch to a Hollywood producer gets undermined by Lee's con-man tactics, and the two brothers find themselves in a battle of wills with high stakes. In this "Faculty Showcase" production, the role of Lee will be played by Associate Professor of Theatre Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson.
"Shepard's masterwork.... It tells us a truth, as glimpsed by a 37 year old genius."--New York Post.
"It's clear, funny naturalistic. It's also opaque, terrifying, surrealistic. If that sounds contradictory, you're on to one aspect of Shepard's winning genius; the ability to make you think you're watching one thing while at the same time he's presenting another."--San Francisco Chronicle.
Fall Production
I HATE HAMLET
by Paul Rudnick
Directed by Eric
Thibodeaux-Thompson
- October 28-30, and November 3-5, 2011
- 7:30PM, Sunday at 2PM
- The Studio Theatre, Public Affairs Center (PAC) Level 1, UIS Campus
Play Description
Comedy
Full Length Play
3 men, 3 women: 6 total
INTERIOR
A young and successful television actor relocates to New York, where he rents a marvelous, gothic apartment. With his television career in limbo, the actor is offered the opportunity to play Hamlet onstage, but there's one problem: He hates Hamlet. His dilemma deepens with the entrance of John Barrymore's ghost, who arrives intoxicated and in full costume to the apartment that once was his. The contrast between the two actors, the towering, dissipated Barrymore whose Hamlet was the greatest of his time, and Andrew Rally, hot young television star, leads to a wildly funny duel over women , art, success, duty, television, and yes, the apartment. "...fast-mouthed and funny...It has the old-fashioned Broadway virtues of brightness without pretensions and sentimentality without morals."--Village Voice. "...unapologetically silly and at times hilarious...affectionately amusing about the theatre..."--NY Times. (from Dramatists.com)
