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What's Your Stop?

This experimental piece shows how American culture has been "assembled" over the last 50 years. Using all conceivable performance techniques as well as multimedia and sound collages, the evening rips the veneer off of the post-war 1950's and exposes the raw underbelly of American culture.

Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 Tony Award–winning musical thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based on 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond.

Sweeney Todd opened on Broadway at the Uris Theatre on March 1, 1979 and ran for 557 performances.[1] It was directed by Harold Prince with musical staging by Larry Fuller. It starred Len Cariou as Sweeney Todd and Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett. The musical tells the story of Benjamin Barker, alias Sweeney Todd, who returns to London after 15 years' transportation on false charges. When he learns from his former landlady Mrs. Lovett that his wife poisoned herself after being raped by the judge who wrongly transported him (Judge Turpin by name), he vows revenge.

Join Rosalind and her cousin Celia in a romp through the Forest of Arden in CCSU Theatre's bold new retelling of William Shakespeare's As You Like It. Banished from court and disguised for safety, the two cousins encounter a wild cast of characters and find surprising contentment in a world governed by love.

Federico Garcia Lorca was one of Spain's most famous poet and playwright. Tragically, he was also one of the first victim's of Spain's fascist regime. This original play entwines his final hours in a state prison with scenes from his most famous work, The House of Bernarda Alba.

Congratulations to Annie Capobianco and Kate Bunce for being selected from among the cast of Lorca to compete for the Irene Ryan scholarship at the New England region Kennedy Center Theatre Festival in January!

What defines theatre as distinct from the other arts?  Everything?  Nothing?
In a swiftly changing and growing community of arts at CCSU, this piece
takes a look at the lenses through which we pour our creative presentation.

The humorous and compelling prequel to Shakespeare's King Lear, Lear's Daughters tells the story of five indomitable women and their struggle for an independent identity in a world where the course of their lives are set out before birth. Their attempts to escape the trap is sometimes moving, sometimes funny, but never expected.

In true film noir fashion, the story of the dark and courageous Nick Danger, Third Eye, begins in Los Angeles, but quickly takes the audience on a roller coaster ride forwards into the past and then back to whatever may have passed along the way. The story's hero takes the case of his lost love, who, for reasons unknown, is in terrible danger. Nick must battle against the shadows, the cranky butlers, and against his own passion to get to the bottom of it all.

Anton Chekov is recognized as the writer that opened a place for the actor's inner life in modern drama. Many people think of his work as dark and foreboding and don't realize what a sweet ironic sense of humor he really has. But in his short sketches it can't be missed! Many of them are subtitled "A joke in one act," and they are delicious little character driven farces. The Theatre Department is pleased to offer two of these to round out the mainstage production of The Seagull, starring faculty Josh Perlstein and Thom Delventhal.

CCSU Theatre's annual celebration of storytelling provides our students a chance to invent new works of "Theatre for Young Audiences." Last year's theme, "The Elements" yielded four 15-minute pieces that delighted children here and at their schools. This year the focus will be on storytelling as a communal resource for facing our fears.

The Unseen: Two men are in a prison for years, being tortured and questioned and they have no idea why. They can't see each other but they talk to keep one another sane. Wallace is logical and uses reason on everything, including how to escape, almost succeeding. Valdez is hopeful and uses his faith to keep himself alive. Smash, the prison guard, is evil and relishes in murder and torture. The two inmates soon hear a knocking coming from a wall, which seems to indicate that they have company somewhere nearby . . .

Feeding the Moonfish: Destiny is not easy to spot. Several things in life, like memories and death, often keep us from ever realizing our true potential, from actualizing our possible futures. But when the pain has dug a hole so deep and the memories have drowned you, and you prefer this, what is left? When lonlieness is your only companion and violence the only downfall to your dreams, is hanging on worth the pain? Is sacrificing your own life and denying what could be worth the few moments of what's left of a father's love? Feeding the Moonfish asks these very questions as we learn the relationship between the moon and the moonfish can be just as real and strong for people.

Commedia dell’Arte: Come witness the genre of comedic theatre that inspired Charlie Chaplin, The Three Stooges, and Wall-E, as it was meant to be seen: fast, physical, and in italian! These three comedic shorts were produced by the ensemble based on scenarios used by commedia troupes in reniscance italy, and include seduction, rejection, erections, farts, and large heaping of dumb people in awkward situations.

Circus: We are in Europe, during the late 1800's. The night has inevitably arrived and so have its players. At night, the entertainment begins! The players get ready for their unsuspecting audience until the doors finally open, the curtain rises, and the show begins . . . . WELCOME! To The Circus! Where all of your dreams come true . . . and then some. We have in store for you a show that will certainly keep you entertained and on the edge of your seats. So, come in! You are all welcome, especially the little kiddies! You won't be dissapointed, and trust me, neither will we.

Mobiloxyschlock is back part-time this year. Fall 2009 is busier than ever here at CCSU Theatre, and with our ambitious goal of 16 Shows in 16 Weeks, the usual plan of one schlock a month has had to be pared back. But despair not! A single super-schlock has moved in to fill the void, and it's here in time to celebrate everybody's favorite secular holiday. Gobble gobble gobble.