When: Opens February 21st at 8PM.
Additional shows February 22nd at 2PM & 8PM and February 23rd at 8PM.
Where: LPAC Frear Ensemble Theatre
This spring’s Honors Acting Thesis promises to be a gender bending, swashbuckling physical comedy overflowing with misaligned adventure. Four Swarthmore students are taking the plunge on the story of the Three Musketeers and creating an entirely original piece from the ground up under the guidance of guest director and playwright Anisa George.
The Ensemble/Creators include Katie Goldman ’14, Madeline Charne ’14, Mark Levine-Weinberg ’14, and Anna Russell (HC) ’14. Stage Management by Annalise Lowery ’17. Costume Design is by Rebecca Kanach. Lighting Design is by Amanda Jensen. Sound Design is by Adriano Shaplin, and Fight Choreography is by Brett Cassidy.
The Department of Theater presents Honors Acting Thesis THE MAIDS by Jean Genet in the LPAC Frear Ensemble Theatre March 1st, 2013 at 8PM, March 2nd at 2PM and 8PM and March 3rd at 2PM. Jean Genet (1910 – 1986) was a noted French author, playwright, and political activist. Genet believed in theater as an incendiary event and his plays reflect themes that ignore traditional plot and character psychology. Many of his works rely on ritual, transformation, illusion and interchangeable identities. Very loosely based on a true story of two maids who brutally murdered their employers, THE MAIDS takes us on a journey where role playing and reality dangerously melt together. The two sisters in the story are too intimate with each other, too close and only survive their lives in service by playing at becoming their mistress. Working for their glamorous and mysterious employer known as Madame, social oppression, sisterhood, enslavement, and sexual deprivation imprison these two minds in a dark game where nobody wins. The elaborate interchange leads the two sisters towards a neverending morbid fantasy and all that remains is the floating red train of Madame’s elegant dress…