Upcoming: Beirut by Alan Bowne and Night Maneuver by Howard Korder, Southwestern University Black Box Theatre, February15 - 19, 2012

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Black Box Series

presents

Beirut and Night Maneuver

1 Night, 2 Shows, 1 Price!

February 15 - 19

7pm | Wednesday & Thursday
8pm | Friday & Saturday
3pm | Sunday

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Heather Hall, Southwestern University, Georgetown

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Beirut by Alan Bowne

Directed by Alexis Gette ‘13

Beirut is the story of a Brooklyn man quarantined in the Lower East Side after testing positive for a deadly, nameless virus. His girlfriend, who has not been infected, makes the dangerous journey across the quarantine line to be with him. The plague has upped the ante on love and introduced them to sacrifice. They are a Romeo and Juliet of the boroughs. An East Side story.

(Adult subject matter for mature audiences only)

Night Maneuver by Howard Korder
Directed by Abraham Ramirez ‘13

A series of lies and inconsistencies drive this plot and the relationship between brothers, Lou, Tim, and the absent Monty whose heavy shadow follows them throughout. An underhanded power-struggle between the two ensues, as Lou acts as the rather obnoxious patronizing older brother, and Tim the pathetic and helpless younger brother. It becomes clear that both of them have their secrets. Using mind games and deception, they each try to catch the other out. Intriguing and touching, this play is a powerful unfolding of the human construct that reveals its inner-most fragility.

(Adult subject matter for mature audiences only)

Upcoming: The Fifth Sun, Southwestern University, Georgetown, October 23 -25

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at Sarofim School of Fine Arts,
Southwestern University, Georgetown

THE FIFTH SUN

by Kinsey Keck & Becca Plunkett
Directed by Becca Plunkett
Blackbox Theatre
Heather McGaughey Memorial Hall
October 23 - 24, 8 p.m., October 25, 3 p.m.

The spark for The Fifth Sun comes from the Aztec "Legend of the Five Suns". The legend states that each sun is a period of time wherein there is peace and life on earth. When a sun dies, the world is absorbed in chaos as the gods destroy the world in order to renew it. The Aztecs believed there are only five suns and that we live the era of the last sun.

What if the Aztecs were right? What if we are in the era of the last sun, and a new sun will not take its place? What if this chaos is not followed by renewed stability. The Fifth Sun presents four characters facing a world plagued with death and destruction, four characters that always hope for something better and wait for a new beginning.

Upcoming: Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, Southwestern University, September 30 - October 4

UPDATE: Click for ALT review, October 3





Found on-line at the Theatre Department of Southwestern University, Georgetown:

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning, Juliet)

By Ann-Marie Macdonald
Directed by Mark Pickell

September 30-October 4, 2009
7pm - Wednesday & Thursday
8pm - Friday & Saturday
3pm - Sunday

Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater, Sarofim School of Fine Arts

Imagine a collaboration between Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and Woody Allen, and you have the essence of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), a wild and fantastical farce that includes cross-dressing, swordplay, mistaken identities, and playful tomfoolery.

What would happen if Juliet's and Desdemona's death sentences were reprieved? Constance Ledbelly, a dusty and plucky academic, deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original source for Romeo and Juliet and Othello, and is magically transported into the plays themselves. She visits Juliet and Desdemona, has a hand in saving them from death and finds out what they are all about, all the while engaging in a personal voyage of self.

Read more at AustinLivetheatre.com . . . .