DEATH TRAP by Ira Levin, Broccoli Project at University of Texas, March 21 - April 6, 2013

The Broccoli Project at the University of Texas

presents

DEATHTRAP
A Thriller in Two Acts

by Ira Levin

Directed by Casey Nice ; Assistant Director Susannah Morey
March 22, 23; April 4, 5, 6 @ 7 pm
Special preview: March 21 @ 7 pm
Black Box Theatre (SAC 2.304) at the University of Texas Student Activities Center, 2201 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712 (click for map)

TICKETS: $5 students/UT faculty, $10 General admission

*All tickets can be purchased at the door thirty minutes prior to the show. Cash only.

Seemingly comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college—a thriller which Sidney recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway hit. Sidney's plan, which he devises with his wife's help, is to offer collaboration to the student, an idea which the younger man quickly accepts. Thereafter suspense mounts steadily as the plot begins to twist and turn with devilish cleverness, and with such an abundance of thrills and laughter, that audiences will be held enthralled until the final, startling moments of the play.

The Broccoli Project is a student-run theatre group at The University of Texas. It was founded by students in the Plan II Honors Program in 2001 and has since treated audiences to a range of unique and exciting shows.

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Ongoing: Paganini by Don Nigro, The Broccoli Project, University of Texas, October 25 - November 3

The Broccoli Project proudly presents Paganini by Don Nigro Performed in the Black Box Theater in the Student Activities Center (SAC 2.304) October 25th, 26th, & 27th November 1st, 2nd, & 3rd 7 PM, $5 with a student/faculty ID, $10 for all others at the door Paganini: A dark comedy by Don Nigro about the infamous virtuoso violinist, Nicolo Paganini, whose skill with the violin was so great that many believed he was a marionette of the devil. Using Paganini’s 24 Caprices for Violin as a haunting background, this play traces the grotesque and satirical adventures of Paganini as he plays throughout Europe, living the century’s equivalent to a rock star. Leaving a trail of seduced women, enraged fathers and creditors, and evading arrest for reported murder, Paganini probes the consequences of art and the nature of salvation for the artist. Directed by David Skaggs With assistant directors Andrew Wortham and Carson Modrall Featuring: Griffen McDonald Connor Healy Chantelle Baretto David Sambrano Casey Nice Tyler Brown Gabrielle Inhofe Marlee Burns Renae Jackson Matt Green Heather Morris Mohnish Gandhi Xavier Rotnofsky Harold Wardlaw Susannah Morey Tara Boggaram

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Upcoming: Fuddy Mears by David Lindsay-Abaire, Broccoli Project at University of Texas March 30 - April 7

at the University of Texas

presents

Fuddy Meers

by David Lindsay-Abaire
directed by Brooks Naylor and Susannah Morey

March 29, 7pm
March 31, 2pm and 7 pm
April 5 - 7, 7pm

Calhoun Hall 100, South Mall, University of Texas (click for map)

Tickets are $5 at the door. Language may not be suitable for some young children.

As the audience, you will dive into the life of Claire, a young woman who wakes up with no memory of her life whatsoever. In a flash, she is taken away by a half-blind, half-deaf, limping man with a lisp, and whisked into a whirlwind of confusion and revelations! Feast your eyes on a cast of characters that include a sassy lady cop, an old stroke victim, a drug-abusing teenager, a melodramatic MRI technician, and one filthy sock puppet.

Upcoming: Oedipus for Kids, Broccoli Project, University of Texas, October 21 - November 5

Found on-line via Facebook:

The Broccoli Project, a UT student organization

presents

Oedipus for Kids!

Directed by Alex Reynolds and Laura Wright
Musical Direction by Lucy Junker
Staring Griffen McDonald, Glenn Miglin, Megan Rabuse, and Katherine Kling with Angus McLeod as understudy and Edgar Walters on Piano

Please note: this play is not for young audiences

October 21, 22, 28, 29, and November 4 and 5 - Curtain at 7:30 P.M
Tickets $5 at the door - T-shirts and posters will be sold as well

Unfolding in real-time, Oedipus for Kids! turns the audience into attendees of the latest performance of the Fuzzy Duck Theatre Company, a three-person troupe dedicated to performing the classics for children. Having had success with previous offerings such as Uncle Tommy’s Cabin, company founder Alistair has decided that the next logical step is tackling Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex with songs such as “What’s It Like When Ya Get The Plague?” and “A Little Complex.” But all is not as pleasant as it seems with the Fuzzy Ducks: Alistair is in the middle of a bitter divorce with troupe member Catalina, who suspects something is up when she learns that tonight’s audience includes the executives from sponsor Beanz! Coffee for Kids. Evan, the third troupe member, is a newly-trained recent hire with questionable acting methods. He uses these to play Oeddy, “a little boy a lot like you,” who runs away from home when he finds out that he is destined to do something terrible to his Mommy and Daddy.

Upcoming: Rumors, The Broccoli Project, UT

Found at the Daily Texan on-line:

Student troupe brings dark farce to SAC

By Clayton Wickham, Daily Texan Staff

“Play the hostess,” Ken Gorman tells his wife Chris as the other guests begin to arrive at a dinner party gone awry after the original host’s failed suicide attempt.

“Play the hostess?” Chris Gorman responds, giving her husband a horrified look. “There’s no food out; there’s no ice in the bucket. Where’s the help? Where’s the cheese dip? What am I supposed to do, play charades?”

In the Broccoli Project production of the play Rumors, the Gormans arrive at the wedding anniversary dinner for Deputy Mayor of New York Charley Brock to discover that his wife Myra is missing, and Charley has shot himself in the earlobe in a suicide attempt. Ken, Charley’s lawyer and friend, enlists Chris in a cover-up attempt that eventually draws in all eight guests in a tumult of lies, confusion and miscommunication. It doesn’t take long for all the characters to completely lose control in this bourgeoisie farce.

Rumors by Neil Simon, will show at the Black Box Theatre, a new theater space in the Student Activity Center. The play is produced by Alex Reynolds, a Plan II and business honors senior, and Laura Wright, a Plan II and biology sophomore, and is directed by Jenny Kutner, Plan II junior, and Katherine Kloc, a Plan II and advertising junior. The play coincides with the Plan II Honors program’s 75th anniversary weekend.

Read more at the Daily Texan on-line. . . .

The Broccoli Project presents Rumors at the new Student Activities Center (click for map), second floor

March 25 & 26 at 7 p.m.