Coming up at The Rep:
“South Pacific”
now onstage
2012 10-Minute Plays
coming in July
2012-2013 Season Announced
See below for details on all of these events!
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Rodgers & Hammerstein’s
”South Pacific”
A Musical with Book by Joshua Logan and
Oscar Hammerstein II
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
and Music by Richard Rogers
Directed for The Rep by Aaron Rocklyn
May 4-5, 10-12, 17-19 & 24-26 with curtain at 8 o’clock each evening.
With a story drawn from James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book “Tales of the South Pacific”, this musical, set in an island paradise during World War II, sensitively and candidly explores the issue of racial prejudice through the telling of two parallel love stories.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Score.
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The May 12 performance will be interpreted in ASL for the hearing impaired through the
financial support of the Sertoma 700 Club of Rochester. Please contact the Box Office for details.
This activity is funded by the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council through the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
“South Pacific” is presented through special arrangement with R&H Theatricals
The Rep’s production of “South Pacific” has been sponsored in part by:
AUDITIONS ANNOUNCED
Auditions for The Rep’s 2012 10-Minute Play Festival will be held at the theatre on Sunday, June 3 at 7:00 pm. At least two men and two women of any age are required and those auditioning will be asked to read from script selections.
Ten minute plays are a great way to ease into acting for those who are new to the stage or who may have been away from it for a time! Call the Box Office if an alternate audition date/time is needed to fit your schedule
The Ten Minute plays will be staged at The Rep July 13-14, 19-21 & 26-28, 2012.
Reflections In a Mirror - 2012 Ten Minute Plays
On July 13, 2012 The Rep will open Reflections in a Mirror, our fifth playwright festival featuring a collection of 10-minute plays. The festival has one central goal: To support new and emerging playwrights as they experiment with this highly challenging art form by providing a venue for their scripts. The festival also provides directors and actors with the opportunity to work with a "work-in-progress."
The theme for the evening of plays is loosely drawn from Hamlet’s instructions to the actors of “Holding a Mirror up to Life.” Each play should have as its through line a mirror, showcasing some element of reflections of life, relationships, and the masks that people wear.
Reflections In A Mirror will be staged July 13-14, 19-21 & 26-28 with curtain at 8 o’clock each evening. Please join us for an evening of plays which may surprise, shock, stimulate or amuse you!
The Rep’s 29th Season Announced
Following the opening night performance of South Pacific at The Rep on May 4, the theatre’s board of directors announced the 2012-2013 regular season:
The Murder Room
A Murder Mystery Farce by Jack Sharkey September 7-8, 13-15, 20-22 & 27-29, 2012
Wealthy Edgar Hollister marries the money-hungry gold digger Mavis Templeton who, after a few hours of wedded bliss, decides to do away with him. But how many ways can a woman try to kill her husband? And how many ways can things go wrong? The answers lie somewhere in The Murder Room.
A hilarious spoof on British crime thrillers bringing Agatha Christie, Monty Python, Abbott and Costello, and a dash of the “Pink Panther” into a mix that will keep you laughing and guessing all the way through.
Amy’s View
A Drama by David Hare November 9-10, 15-17, 23-24, 29 & December 1, 2012
The year is 1979. Esme Allen, a well-known West End actress who is coming to terms with changing times and trends of the theater she dominates. Her daughter Amy arrives with a new boyfriend… and a secret, the ramifications of which will not be fully felt or understood until 16 years later.
A wry, witty and candid exploration of life - the relationship between a mother and daughter, of the risks of both good and bad fortune and the limits of love.
A Walk In The Woods
A Comedy/Drama by Lee Blessing January 11-12, 17-19 & 24-26, 2013
Set in the broader landscape of two nations attempting to avert nuclear holocaust, this is the story of an impossible friendship between an earnest, young American arms negotiator and his more cynical Soviet counterpart, that grows during their private walks together over a period of many months.
Described as “a brilliantly timeless meditation on both the eternal hope and relentless futility of high stakes politics” this play was nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for Best New Play.
God of Carnage
A Comedy by Yasmina Reza March 8-9, 14-16 & 21-23, 2013
A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings two sets of Brooklyn parents together for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, the rum flows, tensions emerge and the gloves come off.
Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play.
Man Of La Mancha
A Musical by Leigh and Darion Wasserman May 3-4, 9-12, 16-19 & 23-25, 2013
Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes 17th century masterpiece, Don Quixote, this is a musical adaptation of Wasserman’s 1959 teleplay, I, Don Quixote.
The tale of the “mad” knight, Don Quixote, is told as a play within a play performed by Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits his hearing with the Spanish Inquisition.