2010-11 Season

2010-11 Season

The Importance of Being Earnest

By Oscar Wilde

A classic comedic farce set in late Victorian England. When Jack, also known as Ernest, reveals his double life to his aristocratic best friend, Algernon, Algernon reveals his similar duplicity to avoid social obligations. Add in the young ladies that the young men wish to marry, their chaperones and the foibles and hypocrisy of society it all adds up to Oscar Wilde’s most enduringly popular play.

Director – Michael Bolen

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

By Rupert Holmes

The story was inspired by Charles Dickens’ last (and unfinished) novel and employs the device of a “show-within- a-show” The cast members of Drood do not specifically play Dickens’s characters, but rather music hall performers who are performing as Dickens’s characters. This device allowed for a great deal of light comedy that was not originally found in Dickens’s novel. The Chairman, a kind of Master of Ceremonies, begins by informing attendees that this is going to be an unusual production and the play within a play commences.

The final twist is that the each audience votes on the ending, so theatre goers never know how the evening will turn out.

Directors – Brad Speck & Jim Laney

DCT – X-Mas at the Campus – The Second Shepherd’s Play

Proof by David Auburn

Catherine, the daughter of Robert, a recently deceased mathematical genius struggles with the grief of losing her father and the fear that she has inherited his mental illness. An ex-graduate student of Robert’s discovers a ground breaking mathematical proof while looking through his writings. Catherine is adamant that she is the true author. Can she prove it? This is the central question of the powerful and poignant piece.

Director – Jeannene Abney

Snoopy!!! The Musical

Music by Larry Grossman
Lyrics by Hal Hackady
Book by Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw and Michael Grace.
Based on the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts.

The Peanuts gang delights audiences with vignettes, songs and dances. Lucy is ready to assist Charlie Brown with his myriad problems at her Psychiatrist’s booth, Snoopy submits his manuscript to “Playbeagle” magazine, and Linus awaits the Great Pumpkin are but a few of the of the giggle-inducing scenes in this production. Fun for all ages.

Director – Clay White

Daughters of the Lone Star State

By Del Shores
A biting comedy about an all white women’s social club that faces the reality that the world no longer embraces their bigoted outlook on society.

Red White and Tuna

By Jaston Williams, Joe Sears & Ed Howard
Find out what the citizens of Tuna, TX have been up to since A Tuna Christmas as they prepare for a 4th of July High School Reunion. Will Bertha and Arles tie the knot? Will Joe Bob’s holiday extravaganza be thwarted by Vera Carp? Which matriarch will be crowned Tuna’s Homecoming Reunion Queen, and what Tuna graduates will come back to town for the celebration? Don’t miss the answer to these and other side-splitting Tuna questions!

Bye-Bye Birdie

Book by Michael Stewart
Music by Charles Strouse
Lyrics by Lee Adams

A rock-n- roll musical-comedy set in the early 1960’s. Rock super-star, Conrad Birdie, is going into the army, but before he does, a less-than- successful songwriter cooks up a scheme to have him sing on the Ed Sullivan show and give a farewell kiss to one lucky girl. The wacky events unfold in a small Ohio town where the chosen girl lives. A toe-tapping good time for the entire family.

Director – Sharon Veselic

All In The Timing

By David Ives

For DCT’s inaugural production at the POINTBank Black Box Theatre Bill Kirkley suggested David Ives’ All in the Timing which features six short plays. Six Plays…Six Directors…Six Visions…Six Casts…One Playwright…equals a singularly exceptional show! Although Kirkley headed up the project and directed The Philadelphia (one of the six plays), he shared the fun by recruiting directors for the remaining five pieces within the work.

Additional directors on this project included DCT veterans Bonnie McCormick directing Sure Thing; Dennis Welch directing Variations on the Death of Trotsky , Kenny Fudge directing The Universal Language; Polly Maynard directing Philip Glass Buys A Loaf Of Bread; along with newcomers Bob White and Jerri Hall directing Words, Words, Words.

An Evening with Tennessee Williams

The event offered a rare look at some of Williams’ lesser known works.

This Property is Condemned, directed by Brad Speck is a depression-era drama.
The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, directed by Dennis Welch, is a lighter offering that takes a look at the lives of three people in a cockroach-infested boarding house in the French Quarter.
Talk To Me Like The Rain And Let Me Listen, directed by Pat Watson is an intense work featuring a young man and young woman who speak eloquently about their desperation.

That’s Life

By Donna Trammell July 29, 30, 31 – 2011
The 90-minute musical parody spotlights and spoofs the real facts of life – everything from oil spills, inflation, political correctness and Facebook to a medley of “Old Folks Songs” lamenting nose hair, memory loss, acid reflux and assorted dysfunctions.