Don't Dress for dinner, a farce

Written by: Marc Camoletti, translated by Robin Hawdon
Production Dates: october 2 & 3, 2008

About the show: Playwright Robin Hawdon took on the formidable task of translating Marc Camoletti's charming French comedy, whose English title is Don't Dress for Dinner, into English. A comedy, which is amusing in one language may be a failure when converted to another.  Britisher Hawdon not only has brought  this "Boulevard Comedy" to her native tongue; she has given us alliterations and puns, sparkling the play's language into a multi-faceted diamond.

The plot is simplicity itself.  Jacqueline is leaving for the weekend to visit her mother while Bernard, her husband, is having a tryst, in their converted barn-home, with his mistress, Suzanne.  His friend, Robert, who was his best man at his wedding to Jacqueline and currently her lover, decides to spend the  weekend.  Add that the caterer has sent over their best chef, a Cordon Bleu graduate, Suzette. In the second act George, Suzette's husband enters into the confusion. Now wasn't that  simple?

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A christmas carol

Story by: Charles Dickens
Production Dates: Nov. 20-21, 2008

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colorado state thespian conference

Location: Colorado Convention Center & the Hyatt Hotel
Production Dates: Dec. 4-6, 2008

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan, New Music by Jeanine Tesori, and New Lyrics by Dick Scanlan. Original story and screenplay by Richard Morris for the universal Pictures Film.

Produced by Special Arrangements with Music Theatre International

Production Dates: Feb. 26-28, 2009

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spinning into butter

Written by: Rebecca Gilman
Production Dates: April 9-10, 2009 (Limited seating, performed 3/4 Thrust on stage)

About the Story: Set on a college campus in Vermont, Spinning into Butter is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a manner that is at once profound, disturbing, darkly comic, and deeply cathartic. Rebecca Gilman challenges our preconceptions about race relations, writing of a liberal dean of students named Sarah Daniel's who investigates the pinning of anonymous, clearly racist letters on the door of one of the college's few African American students. The stunning discovery that there is a virulent racist on campus forces Sarah, along with other faculty members and students, to explore her feelings about racism, leading to surprising discoveries and painful insights that will rivet and provoke the reader as perhaps no play since David Mamet's Oleanna has done.

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