http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2016/04/22/the-seagull/

http://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/balancing-act

During one summer in Russia, aging actress Arkadina brings her lover Trigorin to her brother’s estate in the countryside to visit her family. Their arrival unearths tensions between the characters, fueled by artistic elitism, love, and desperation to find meaning in life. Written in 1895, Anton Chekhov’s classic work of psychological realism explores both the comedy and the sympathy to be found in the lives of artists and those who surround them.

LPAC Frear Ensemble Theater
4/22/16 @ 8PM
4/23/16 @ 2PM & 8PM
4/24/16 @ 2PM

Starring John Baek ’19, Elizabeth Balch-Crystal ’19, Simon Bloch ’17, Sarah Branch ’17, Kendell Byrd ’17, Tyler Elliott ’15, Jake Mundo ’18, & John Wojciehowski ’19

Stage-Managed by Meghan Wahl, Assistant-Stage-Managed by Henry Feinstein ’19, Scenic Design by Colin McIlvaine, Costume Design by Laila Swanson, Lighting Design by Amanda Jensen, Sound Design by Liz Atkinson, Dramaturg Prof. Brian Johnson

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SUMMER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
LPAC, a multi­venue performing arts facility, regularly staffs students to work behind the scenes on productions. A majority of the work we do over the summer involves supporting dance rental clients and making sure our facility is in top­notch condition.
We are looking for a few motivated people to join our team for the summer season. Preferably, candidates will have worked LPAC show calls and work calls with us prior to consideration for this position. There are several types of roles students will fill, ranging from backstage crew to light board and sound board operation to front of house. The ideal candidate will have experience in all three areas, but we will provide training for an otherwise strong applicant. The pay for this position is student worker category 2.

Minimum Qualifications:

●  Ability to stand for extended periods of time
●  Ability to lift at least 20lbs
●  Ability to follow direction
●  Willingness to learn
●  Excellent work ethic
●  Positive attitude
●  Preferred: has worked 1 call at LPAC as run crew, 1 call as board op, and a semester as an usher (house management experience preferred)

Job Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• Arriving on time to all calls (including some early morning calls)
• Stamina and ability to work long days while maintaining positive attitude
•  Working as a member of the production team to ensure the best possible outcome for all events

●  Following instructions given by LPAC staff members
●  Representing the LPAC in a professional manner
●  Being polite and respectful at all times
●  Assisting clients in tasks
●  Upholding LPAC rules
●  Maintaining the space as needed (including but not limited to sweeping, mopping, dust mopping, cleaning and setting up quick­change locations, cleaning and setting up dressing rooms, cleaning and setting up backstage areas, setting up lobby, setting up FOH as needed)

Time commitment:
This summer, employees are expected to work an average of 20 hours/week during June. During FOH shift weeks, employees will work an average of 6­10 hours/week. During July and August employees can expect 10­20 hours per week. There are some dates that are non­negotiable (large events), but the other days are somewhat flexible. A schedule of all unavailable hours from May 13th to August 12th must be submitted with an application. Once staffing has been finalized (should be finalized by Monday, May 2nd) we will have a summer staff meeting on Wednesday, May 4th. Attendance at this meeting will be mandatory and paid time.

What to expect:
Please note that the tasks will be of a wide variety. In addition to working show and tech calls, you will be asked to do a lot of organizing, sorting, and cleaning. Furthermore, we will complete maintenance on the building such as reorganizing storage areas, cleaning and maintaining lighting units, painting the stage, cleaning out the stage completely, etc. It is imperative that you maintain a positive and motivated attitude throughout each workday.

What to do next:
Applications are due by April 15th; interviews will start shortly thereafter. Please submit the following for your application by Friday, April 15th at 2:00pm:

●  A letter of interest describing why you are an excellent fit for summer work at the LPAC and what skills you will bring to the table.
●  A detailed schedule of unavailable hours from May 13th through August 12th.
●  A brief descriptions of the calls you have previously done for LPAC
●  2 on campus references, including phone numbers and email addresses

*If you are interested in applying be sure to get on LPAC’s student worker email list and work at least two work calls and two show calls as soon as possible.

*Applicants wishing to seek summer housing must follow all summer housing guidelines put out by the Office of Student Engagement.

Feel free to contact Allie (aemmeri1) in the LPAC office for further details. We hope to see you this summer!

Orchestra 2001, the Department of Music and Dance and the Department of Theater present

STRAVINSKY’S SOLDIER AND OTHER TALES
Saturday, April 2, 2016
8:00 PM
Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College

Swarthmore’s contemporary ensemble-in-residence Orchestra 2001 teams up with students and faculty from Swarthmore’s Departments of Theater and Music & Dance to present a fully staged version of Stravinsky’s 1918 masterpiece L’histoire du soldat.  Directed by Eileen Hou ’16, the production features a corps of dancers and actors from Swarthmore’s performing arts departments and Orchestra 2001 conducted by Lecturer in Music Andrew Hauze ’04. The program also features the world premieres of works for the L’histoire septet by Swarthmore alum Jeremy Rapaport-Stein ’14 and current students Nathan Scalise and Zachary Tanner.  The program opens with a curtain-raiser called The Soldier Dances, a new potpourri of popular dances from the 1910’s by the African-American composer James Reese Europe, arranged especially for this concert.

Starring: Kenny Bransdorf, John Baek, Wesley Han, Molly Murphy, Isabel Clay, Andy Lee, Cathy Kandrysawtz, Hunter Lee, Victoria Hou, Prairie Wentworth-Nice

Director and Choreographer: Eileen Hou; Music Director: Andrew Hauze; Stage Manager: Aaron Slepoi; Media Designer: Aaron Jackson; Costume Designer: Raven Bennet; Lighting Designer: James Murphy; Props Managers: Juhyae Kim, Marta Roncada; Faculty Advisors: Sharon Friedler, Allen Kuharski, Laila Swanson, Tara Webb

Upcoming in April…
SOLDAT
Directed by Eileen Hou ‘16
4/2 @ 8PM
Lang Music Building
Concert Hall

THE SEAGULL by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Michelle Johnson ‘16
4/22 @ 8PM
4/23 @ 2PM & 8PM
4/24 @ 2PM
Lang Performing Arts Center
Frear Ensemble Theatre (Black Box)

For more info about these events, fi nd us on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Swarthmore-College-Departmentof-Theater/167097723340268
and keep up-to-date with photos from our productions,
information about academics and more on our website:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/department-theater

Come audition for the Theater Department’s Spring production of  THE SEAGULL by Anton Chekhov!

THE SEAGULL dramatises the artistic and romantic conflicts between the following figures: the famous middlebrow writer Trigorin, the eager ingenue Nina, the fading actress Arkadina, and her passionate and frustrated son Treplev. It is an ensemble play that emphasizes the pain, beauty, and humor we can find in life’s conflicts and desires.

Auditions will take place in the Frear Ensemble Theater, Thursday 12/10, between 3-6pm.
Sign-up sheet and monologues can be found outside of the Theater Department Office (lower-level of LPAC)

Any level of experience and walk-ins are welcome! You can use the monologues provided or present one of your choosing. However, prepared monologues are not necessary.

Feel free to email Michelle at mjohnso4@swarthmore.edu with any questions!

The Department of Theater’s

Directing Workshop (THEA 035) and
Lighting Design (THEA 004B)
present
A NIGHT OF SCENES

by directors

Derek Graves ‘18
Rex Chang ‘17
Simon Bloch ‘17

with one-acts and excerpts from
August Strindberg
Christopher Durang
Greg Keller

Wednesday (Dec. 9) at 7PM
& Thursday (Dec. 10) at 7PM

Free and open to the public
Info: lpacevents@swarthmore.edu
610-328-8260

The Department of Theater and Senior Company 2016 present Wallace Shawn’s AUNT DAN AND LEMON

There’s something inside us that likes to kill…Welcome to the mind of Lemon, a reclusive young woman with an unspecified chronic illness, who sits in her apartment reading books and reliving her life story from inside her head. As she struggles to contemplate a world that thrives on genocide, she regales us with tales and memories of Aunt Dan, who applies Kissinger’s doctrine of ‘realpolitik’ to her private life – a life where all relationships are complex power games played out through an amoral, ruthless filter. Are you comfortable? Sit down. Odds are, there’s blood on your hands.

Co-directed by Aaron Matis and Eileen Hou. Performed by Derek Graves, Chris Malafronti, Lila Weitzner, Max Marckel, Michelle Johnson, Madeleine Pattis, and Michaela Shuchman. Set by Emma Kates-Shaw, Lights by Amanda Jensen, Sound by Elizabeth Atkinson, Costumes by Rebecca Kanach.

LPAC Frear Ensemble Theater
December 4 (Fri) at 8PM
December 5 (Sat) at 2PM & 8PM
December 6 (Sun) at 2PM

About the Play
“We live in Berlin. It’s 1932. I feel relatively safe, ” says Agnes Eggling as she and her friends watch Adolf Hitler’s rise to power from the relative safety of her Berlin apartment. Meanwhile, Zillah, who lives in 2015, can’t help but notice some terrifying parallels with current day politics and Weimar Germany. Tony Kushner’s A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY is “unabashedly political, thought-provoking, a little scary, and frequently a good deal of theatrical fun.”

About the Playwright
Tony Kushner was born in New York City in 1956. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, best known for his 1993 two-part epic Angel in America, as well as the screenplay for the 2012 film Lincoln. President Obama awarded him the National Medal of Arts in 2013.

LPAC Pearson-Hall Theatre

8PM Friday 11/13
2PM & 8PM Saturday 11/14
2PM Sunday 11/15

Directed by K. Elizabeth Stevens, Set & Media Design by Jorge Cousineau, Costume Design by Laila Swanson.