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Announcing our 2013-14 season!
Auditions
Auditions are always open to the public. You don’t need to be a Theatre Major or even a UAF student.
No experience necessary.
Saturday, September 7. Times on the Auditions page (along with much more information).
Audition for this Fall’s main productions at the U: “Joseph K” on stage and/or “Bodies of Water” film production being shot this Fall.
Joseph K
By Tom Basden
Directed by Brain Cook
October 25-November 3
On his thirtieth birthday, Joseph K has his sushi home-delivery intercepted by two unidentified men who inform him he is under arrest. He has no idea what he’s done wrong but he’s determined to clear his name.
As he tries to make sense of his situation and to confront those who threaten his freedom, Joseph is thrown headlong into a fight against an invisible and illogical law.
Tom Basden’s darkly comic stage adaptation of The Trial relocates Kafka’s classic novel to twenty-first-century London. It premiered in 2010 at the Gate Theatre, London.
Tom Basden is a writer, comedian and member of sketch group Cowards. He won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2007, and a Fringe First in 2009 for his debut play Party, which then transferred to London’s West End.
Auditions
Auditions are always open to the public. You don’t need to be a Theatre Major or even a UAF student.
No experience necessary.
Saturday, January 18. Times will be posted on the Auditions page (along with much more information).
Audition for this Spring’s mainstage production at the U: “Dead Man’s Cell Phone”.
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Brian Cook
March 28-April 6, 2014
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man- with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically-obsessed world.
Writer: Sarah Ruhl‘s plays include The Clean House (Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 2004, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Pen Award), Melancholy Play, Eurydice, Late: a cowboy song, Orlando, Demeter in the City (NAACP image award nomination), Passion Play (Fourth forum freedom award, Kennedy Center), Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award), and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play). Her plays have been performed at Lincoln Center Theater, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, the Goodman Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, Woolly Mammoth, Berkeley Repertory Theater, the Wilma, Cornerstone Theater, Madison Repertory Theater, Clubbed Thumb, and the Piven Theatre Workshop, among other theaters across the country. Her plays have been translated into German, Polish, Korean, Russian and Spanish, and have been produced internationally in London, Canada, Germany, Latvia, and Poland. Sarah received her M.F.A. from Brown University, and is originally from Chicago. She is the recipient of a Helen Merrill award, Whiting Writers’ Award, PEN/Laura Pels award, and a Macarthur Fellowship. She is a proud member of New Dramatists and 13P.
Famous For Fifteen Minutes Playwright Festival
Saturday, April 19, 2014 @ 7:00pm
Produced by the UAF Student Drama Association, this “Reader’s Theatre Style” presentation helps support beginning playwrights by hosting an open reading of selected scripts.
Typically the scripts have been slightly workshoped by student directors/performers and presented with script-in-hand and minimal sets/costumes – focusing intently on the written word.
Free and open to the public, join us as we see the future of plays being created in our community!
One night only.
Firebird the ballet
presented by the North Star Ballet Company
April 25 – 27, 2014
The North Star Ballet’s Spring Gala will feature The Firebird to the music of Igor Stravinsky. The Firebird, among ballet’s most significant works, was the highlight of the second Paris season of Sergi Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe at the Paris Opera in 1910. Stravinsky’s score for the ballet brought the composer international acclaim.
The Firebird, a creature from Russian folklore, is a magical, glowing bird, the manifestation of goodness, hope and wondrous things. In the ballet, Prince Ivan, the Tsars’ son, wanders into an enchanted forest surrounding the palace of the evil Kostchei. There he encounters and captures the Firebird. In exchange for her release the Firebird promises to come to Ivan’s assistance should he ever be in need. Ivan meets and falls in love with a beautiful princess held captive by Kostchei. When the ogre attempts to turn Ivan into stone with the help of his entourage of monsters, the Firebird appears. Ivan is saved and the princess is released. In a final tableau, we see Prince Ivan and Princess Tsarevna in front of a magnificent palace surrounded by members of their court and children representing the countries of the world.
The North Star Ballet’s production features choreography by Norman Shelburne, Artistic Director, scenery and costumes designed by Celeste Sullivan, whose designs for the North Star Ballet include The Nutcracker, Coppelia, and Alice in Wonderland, and lighting by Kade Mendelowitz, Professor of Theater, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Wendy Langton will create the role of the Firebird with Ian Zeisel as Ivan.
More information available via their website: http://thenorthstarballet.org/
Film Festival
Saturday, May 3, 2014 @ 7pm – Tentative.
On the big screen in the Lee H. Salisbury Theatre
Presented by the UAF Film Club with support by the UAF Department of Theatre & Film
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