Past Productions

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Past Productions of Owl & Nightingale Players & Lab Theatre

Arranged by Season

Spring 2008

 Opening February 22
A Streetcar Named Desire
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Christopher Kauffman
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
February 22, 23, 25 & 26
7:00 P.M. (TIME CHANGE), Kline Theatre
February 24 (Sunday matinee)
2:00 P.M., Kline Theatre

This classic from one of our most revered playwrights illustrates a tragic clash of characters. After losing her job and home, Blanche Dubois has no where to go but to live in New Orleans with her sister Stella and brother-in-law, Stanley. Stanley, an intense and earthy young man, becomes troubled and threatened by the mysterious past and romantic illusions of Blanche. Williams dramatically reveals the attraction and violence of this charged relationship--poetry and fragility vs. muscle and force.

March 14 one night only
HELEN AND TEACHER (working title)
 7 P.M.  Majestic Theater, Cinema One

Book and lyrics by Dr. Susan Russell
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
Gettysburg College
Music by Dr. Lynn Gumert,
Visiting Artist, Rutgers University
 
Presented as a work-in-progress, this staged reading of a world-premiere musical
follows the extraordinary relationship of  Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan--chronicling
Anne's difficult childhood and schooling, Helen's miraculous breakthrough in learning
language as a deaf-blind person under Anne's tutelage, and their lives together as
writers, humanitarians, vaudeville performers, diplomats, activists, and above all, beloved friends.
 
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Opening April 18
Escape From Happiness
by George Walker
Directed by Karen Land
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
April 18, 19, 21 and 22
8:00 P.M., Kline Theatre
April 20 (Sunday at matinee)
2:00 P.M., Kline Theatre

A wildly dysfunctional family, crazed cops, and crazier crooks create hilarious mayhem in this
fast-paced comic whodunit. The playwright's razor-sharp wit and cockeyed insight into family
dynamics propel the action to an oddly moving conclusion.

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April 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27
Senior Projects
Stevens Laboratory Theatre

A wide range of Senior Capstone productions including plays, dance, performance art and design or research presentations.

Fall 2007

September
Time and date TBA,
Kline Theatre

Greg Hall and The Early Morning Monday Show
If you like "Whose Lines is it Anyway?" or have ever seen an Improv show, you are in for a treat!  Emmy winner, comedian, second city veteran, Greg Hall, and his troupe of vagabond improvisers, EMMS, Baltimore¿s premier Improv troupe is coming to Gettysburg College.  Get ready to laugh until you cannot stand up!

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Opening October 25

Measure for Measure
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Christopher Kauffman
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts

October 25, 26, 27 and 29 at 8:00 P.M.,
Kline Theatre
October 28 (Sunday matinee)
2:00 P.M., Kline Theatre

In this complex and dark comedy, Duke Vincentio leaves the fervently pious Angelo in charge of Vienna to clean up the town. After enforcing the death penalty for fornication, he suddenly finds himself overcome with passion for a woman about to enter the convent. What unfolds is a delirious tale of lust, justice, and mercy, beautifully spun by Shakespeare to expose the hypocrisy that results when one imposes absolute power on a community.

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Opening November 15
Owl and Nightingale Independent Festival
November 15, 16, 17 and 18
Times (to be announced)
Stevens Laboratory Theatre

Student-directed performances of one acts, dance performances, staged readings, musical revues, costume exhibits, and/or one-person shows.

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November 29, 30
December 1, 2
Senior Projects
Stevens Laboratory Theatre

A wide range of Senior Capstone productions including plays, dance, performance art and design or research presentations.

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2006-2007

Fall: The Secret Garden

Winter: Metamorphoses

Spring: Jubilee

Thaddeus Stevens: The Play

By Don Rhoads, directed by George Muschamp and Moses Goldberg

Lunchtimes/Monologues Fall 2006
Women and Wendy, The Agamemnon, This Property is Condemned, As you Like It, The Bridge, Brighten Beach Memoirs, The Agamemnon, Baby with the Bathwater, Hamlet, An Ideal Husband, Yee and Lan, Long Days Journey into Night, Waiting for Godot, Measure for Measure, Orestes, Lysistrata

One Acts Fall 2006
Notification, My Golden Girl, Suicide Gal, In the Tank, Ethereal Killers, Sestina, Vincent, To Missouri

Lunchtime Scenes Spring 2007
Rhinoceros; The Real Thing; Joe Turner¿s Come and Gone;
Family 2.0

The Seventh Student Annual O&N
Independent Theatre Festival March 22 ¿ 25, 2007Musical Opener by Upscale, Company, Selections from Wicked, Elena¿s Musical Revue, Art, Improv Show, Cliché PI the Third, Musical Finale by Drop the Octave

Spring Senior Performance Projects
Lebensraum by Israel Horovitz
directed by Emma Chong
Nuovi Viaggi da Vecchie MemorieNew Journeys from Old Memories directed by Tom Christian

Musical Showcasedirected by Shannon Ludlum

Selected Scenes from The 9 Parts of Desireby Heather Raffo

directed by Ashley Middlebrook

Goodnight Little One: Readings of Bedtime Tales,

directed by Emily Miles

The BIBLE: The Complete Word of God (Abridged), by Adam Long, Reed Martin, & Austin Tichenor, directed by Greg Albanetti

The Owl and Nightingale Theatre Project directed by Alexandra Barnard

Creation of the World and other Business by Arthur Miller, directed by Becky Basler

The Owl and Nightingale Theatre Projectdirected by Alexandra Barnard

The Time to Dancedirected and Choreographed by Sarah Dugan

A Museum: Expressive Art and Progressdirected by Nadia EdwardsSunday,

The Time to Dancedirected and Choreographed by Sarah Dugan

Nuovi Viaggi da Vecchie MemorieNew Journeys from Old Memoriesdirected by Tom Christian Goodnight Little One: Readings of Bedtime Tales, directed by Emily MilesMonday,

A Museum: Expressive Art and Progressdirected by Nadia Edwards
Creation of the World and other Business by Arthur Miller, directed by Becky Basler

Musical Showcasedirected by Shannon Ludlum

The BIBLE: The Complete Word of God (Abridged), by Adam Long, Reed Martin, & Austin Tichenor, directed by Greg Albanetti

2005-2006

Fall: A Flea in Her Ear

Winter: The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Spring: An Experiment with an Air
Pump

Lunchtime Festival Fall 2005
¿Tis a Pity She¿s a Whore, Antigone, Lysistrata, Vera or The Nihilists, Phaedra, The Importance of Being Earnest, Iphigenia at Aulis, The Dog in the Manger, Taming of the Shrew, The Constant Prince, Oedipus Rex

One-Act Play Festival Fall 2005
Sorry, You¿ve Got My Wrong Number, Memory Garden, Entrance Exam, A Note on the Type, Harris Superman, The Bedrooms, Since Day One, Coffee with God, The Merry Wives of Windham, Saturday Pleasure, The Kids¿ Table

Lunchtime Festival Spring 2006
The Maid¿s Tragedy; The Boy Who Drew Cats; Richard III; Not Tonight, I¿m Busy Busy Busy, Just Kidding; Graceland; Angels in America, Death of a Salesman

10-Minute Play Festival Spring 2006
Arabian Nights; Finger Food; For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls; Playwrighting 101: The Rooftop Lesson; Alice and Rico; Daniel on a Thursday; Sic Semper Tyrranis; The Coors Lights; The Goblin¿s Plot to Murder God; Tender Offer; Christmas Eve on Orchard Street; Today¿s Special; Pillow Talk; Stars

Independent Festival
Tom Christian and Andy Usher Live; Gburg SmuT; The Joke; Ferdinand the Bull; Glass Mamet; Poison; Ludlow Fair; The Details; Wake-Up Call; Park Bench Philosophy; Aggravated Assult on the Bulgarian Express

Senior Projects
¿Dr. Faustus¿¿John Basset
¿You¿re a Good Man Charlie Brown¿
¿Tiffany Carnuccio
¿Invisible Theatre¿
¿Maggie Wunderlich
¿The Actor¿s Nightmare¿¿Andy Usher
¿1-900-DESPERATE¿
¿Diette Yoshioka
¿Mistero Buffo¿¿Sarah Rozene
¿Grounded¿¿Andrew Ullrich
¿The Course of True Love¿¿
¿Manda Wargo
¿When Harry Met Sally¿¿Erik Gaden

2004-2005

Fall: The Hairy Ape

Winter: Comedy of Errors

Spring: Diana of Dobson¿s

Lunchtime Festival
The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet, Proposals, The Odd Couple, DMV Tyrant, Richard III, An Ideal Husband, Songs for a New World, The Crucible, Long Days Journey into Night, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Machinal

One-Act Play Festival Fall 2004
The Sticky Fingered Fiancée, Right for a Dog, This the Word, Car Broke Down, Small Things, Treeman, Its Only a Movie, Do Actresses Dream of Laminar Flow, Kentucky Waterfall, Bad Reviews Blues, Smile, Time

Independent Festival
The Joke, Drop the Octave, Upscale
Tom Christian and Andy Usher Live
17 People Words, Words, Words
Long Ago and Far Away, The Cliché P.I. and the Case of the Cliché Stolen Item, Picasso at the
Lapin Agile, Iming, Kentish Sleep Journals and Other Experiments, Regency Romance,

Senior Showcases¿The Heaven Above and the Road Below Me¿ ¿ Sean Valentine
¿The Tree House¿ ¿ Jasen Jones
¿Godsend¿ ¿ Nathan Kingsbury
¿The ¿S¿ Word¿ ¿ David Kent
¿All Together Now¿ ¿ Sarah Sigal
¿Autobiography of a Face¿
¿Jennifer Wheaton

2003-2004

Fall: Godspell

Winter: The Miser

Spring: The Cherry Orchard

Lunchtime Festival
Chapter Two, The Winslow Boy, The Four Poster, Summer Brave, Buck Simple, The Art of Dining, The Days and Nights of Bee Bee Fenstermaker, Good Will Hunting,

Independent Festival
Four Scores, Upscale, Tom Christian, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Drop the Octave, Cup Of Joe, On My Shoulders, Wanda¿s Visit, All Together Now, Sure Thing, Watermelon Boats, Bound Words, Home of the Famous Burnt Everything, Towards Life, 1-900-DESPERATE,
One-Act Play Festival Fall 2003
Gun Hill Road, The Latest Revision, Sore Losers, Falling for Each Other, Meadow of Flowers, Perfection on the Run, Tuesday Has no Feeling, Young Shelley; A Rebel Attitude, Separation Anxiety,

Senior Showcases
¿Forever in Love¿- Shannon Sweitzer
¿Redemption¿- Ryan Paige
¿The Looks of Love¿
-Katherine Chongpinitchai
¿Songs, Music, and Dance¿
-Osamu Inoue

2002-2003

The Love of the Nightingale directed by Christopher Kauffman Fall 2002

The School for Scandal direted by Winter 2003

Big Love directed by Spring 2003

Lunchtime Festival

Sure Thing, Stairs to the Roof, The Bacchae, No time for Sergeants, Guilty in a Court of Love, Enter Laughing, Who¿s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Let¿s Eat Hair. So Tell Me About this Guy

One-Act Play Festival Fall 2002
The Last Night of Nothing, Madison Bloody Avenue, Good Buy Again, The In-Loves, The Sin Eater, Stress Test, Lizard Brains, Freefall, What do you Charge for A Cure

Independent Festival
The Odd Couple: Female Version, The Whole Shebang, The Portrait, Man and God having a few Beers and Talking Things Over

Senior Showcases Spring 2003
¿The Illusionist¿- Rustom Davar
¿For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf¿ -Tabitha Hymans
¿The Search for Signs of Intelligence in The Universe¿-Kathy Bruce
¿The Voice in My Head¿
-Jackie Hileman
¿The Big Kahuna¿- Vince Umbrino

2001-2002

Bertold Brecht's The Good Person of Szechuan directed by George Muschamp, fall 2001

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest directed by Emilie Schmidt, spring 2002

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice directed by Susan Russell, winter 2002

Gettysburg College Laboartory One-Act Festival, Fall 2001

Control
The Zoo Story
Hera's Cement
Mafia on Prozac

Senior Showcase Projects, Spring 2002
Drop The Octave - Bob Kennedy, Brendan Klitsch, Four Scores

Credo/Girl's Guide To Chaos - directed by by Ashley Weber

Blind Date - directed by Sarah Sigal

The Garden of Eden - directed by Jennifer Chesney

Naomi in the Living Room - directed by Jackie Hileman

Onstage - directed by Rachel Budmen

Love Letters - directed by Vincent M. Umbrino

The Latest Revision - directed by Chandra Severance


Laboratory Theatre Festival of World Premier One-Act Plays

Winter 2002

Nine Plays in Nine Days! The Forty-first Annual One Act festival presented nine World Premieres of one-act plays. In the summer of 2001 the Theatre Department sent out a call for scripts submissions. The criteria were simple: a play in one act, but one that had never before been produced. The results were phenomenal. The scripts came flooding in from all over the States and even as far as Israel.The directors in the Fundamentals of Directing course were then given the arduous task of finding a play that they wanted to work on, something that spoke to them, for one reason or another. The results of their searches, from over 100 scripts, make up Gettysburg College's Forty-first Annual One-Act Festival.

But there's more! Through the generous sponsorship of theatre professional John Adams (Gettysburg College class of 1970), the playwrights are arriving on campus during the week of the festival to work side by side with the students in rehearsal and to witness the student directors bringing their play into life. This is an amazing opportunity indeed - for all involved, and now we hope for you too! We have combed the country for the best new plays, worked diligently on campus to bring them to life, and now humbly offer their work to you - for your enjoyment, your enlightenment, your astonishment! Come one, come all! Not just one, but to them ALL!

Good Buy Again by Nikki Harmon

Directed by Jackie Hileman and Chandra Severance Judy - Maggie Wunderlich
Doris - Kara Ross

Lizie - Autumn Taylor

Charmaine - Sarah Kretzmer

Stage Manager/Prop Wench - Megan Ford

A career woman, her mother, and the Home Fireside Shopping Club - Don't miss this "super special once in a lifetime" One-Act!

2000-2001
Pierre Corneille's The Illusion directed by Susan Russell, fall 2000

Noel Coward's Present Laughter directed by George M. Muschamp, spring 2001

Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows' Guys and Dolls directed by Emile O. Schmidt, winter 2001
Senior Performance Projects, spring 2001
The Confessor by Wally Daly directed by Erica Cronin

Art by Yasmina Reza, directed by Michael Harp

Personality by Gina Wendkos and Ellen Ratner directed by Paula Henderson

Prospect Street written and directed by Kit Wannen

Young Insomniac written and directed by Lauren Wells



The Second Student Annual O&N Performing Arts Festival, spring 2001

"A Touch Of Gold" An interactive costume gallery featuring live models.

All design and construction by Jennifer Chesney '03

Scenes from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard directed by Vincent Umbrino '03

The Four Scores The Gettysburg College A Cappella Group



Laboratory One-Act Festival

The Bald Soprano, The Actor's Nightmare, All About Al, Mere Mortals

Lunchtime Scenes

What I Meant Was, The Philadelphia, After You, Your Everyday Ghost Story, Antigone, The Wreck on the 5:25, DMV, Tyrant, What Is A Good Wife For? Top Girls, What She Found There, The Last Yankee, Lunch With God, and Oedi



1999-2000



George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House directed by George Muschamp, fall 1999

George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's Once in a Lifetime directed by Emile O. Schmidt, winter 2000

Joshua Sobol's Ghetto directed by Susan Russell, spring 2000

Laboratory One-Act Festival

Remedial English, The Strength of Our Spirit; The Vision of Anne Frank, Medusa's Tale, Am I Blue, The Inner Circle, Two and Twenty,

and Saints Comes In

Lunchtime Scenes

Lysistrata, Gammer Gurton's Needle, The Three Cuckolds, Doctor Faustus, King Henry IV, Part One, Tartuffe or, The Hypocrite, and Don Carlos





1998-1999



Wendy Kesselman's The Executioner's Daughter directed by Susan Russell, fall 1998

William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost directed by Emile O. Schmidt, winter 1999

Tina Howe's The Art of Dining directed by George Muschamp, spring 1999

Laboratory One-Act Festival

Bite the Hand, Twice Shy, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, Svetlana's New Flame, Night, Egmont and The Theologian, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, and Little Red Ridinghood

Lunchtime Scenes

The Sneeze, A Different Moon, Red Carnations, 7x13=28, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Between Daylight and Boonville, Harold & Maude, On Bailey's Strand, A Doll's House, Ah, Wilderness!, Pride and Prejudice, Hooters, and The Circle

1997-1998



Milcha Sanchez Scott's Roosters directed by George Muschamp, fall 1997

Harry Chapin's musical Cotton Patch Gospel directed by Emile O. Schmidt, winter 1998

Lanford Wilson's HOT L BALTIMORE directed by George Muschamp, spring 1998



Laboratory One-Act Festival

Kissing Cousins, The Author's Voice, Maker of Dreams, Chamber Music, Snowangel, A Slight Ache, Hello Out There, 20 Years From Now, The Madhouse, Hot-N-Throbbing, and For All the Saints

1996-1997



Jon Dos Passos' U.S.A. directed by George Muschamp, fall 1996

Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals directed by Emile O. Schmidt, winter 1997

Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof directed by George Muschamp, spring 1997

Laboratory One-Act Festival

The Eye of the Beholder, Another Way Out, Hidden in this Picture, Edmond, The Danube, Chamber Six, Life in Excellence, The Bear, For Whom the Southern Bell Tolls, Village Wooing, Next, 'Dentity Crisis, and The Long Walk to Forever



1995-1996



Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker directed by Emile O. Schmidt, fall 1995

William Shakespeare's Macbeth directed by Emile O. Schmidt, winter 1996

Lee Blessing's Fortinbras directed by Jeanine Howe, spring 1996

Laboratory One-Act Festival

Miss Julie, The Long Goodbye, The Lesson, The American Dream, Women and Wallace, No Exit , and Sexual Perversity in Chicago



1994-1995

George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman directed by Emile O. Schmidt, fall 1994

Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle directed by Emile O. Schmidt, winter 1995

Jean Anouilh's Ring Around the Moon directed by Jeanine Howe, spring 1996

Laboratory One-Act Festival

Seduction Duet, Victory on Mrs. Dandywine's Island, Day of Absence, Hiss the Villain, At the Exit, Aria Da Capo, The Informer, The Two Executioners, Purgatory and At the Hawk's Well