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Hollins Theatre
2009-10 Season
Directions to the Hollins Theatre: At the first stop sign when you enter the Hollins campus, please turn right. Follow the road around the semi-circle, and at the next stop sign, the theatre is the red brick building on the left, and parking in the East lot is on the right. There are several handicapped spaces available next to the theatre building.
Dead Man's Cell Phone
The off-beat comedy by Sarah Ruhl
Wednesday - Sunday, Oct. 28 - Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday - Friday, Nov. 4 -6, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday, Nov. 7 - 8, 2:00 p.m.
(Contains adult language and themes)
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Upstairs Studio Theatre
Hollins University Theatre Building
$10, general public
Free to Hollins University students, faculty, and staff. Tickets can be reserved by emailing boxoffice@hollins.edu, calling the box office at 362-6517, or stopping by the Moody lobby during lunch and dinner from Oct 26 - Nov 8.
(We apologize for the current lack of handicap access, which will be coming soon.)
Dead Man's Cell Phone is a wildly imaginative new comedy from Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" grant. Picture an incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe, and a stranger at the next table who happens to be dead. When Jean answers his cell phone, she unwittingly embarks on a quirky odyssey that fuses her life to his, all the way into the afterlife and back. We are left wondering: Is there cell phone after death? Where do all those conversations actually bounce around? And…Is it possible to find deep, loving connection in a techno world that isolates us as much as it connects us?
"It's a joyride through the absurdity of trying to make simple connections in a world overwhelmed with interconnectivity." San Francisco Chronicle
Broadway Studio: A Musical Revue
Monday - Tuesday, Dec. 3 - 4, 7:30 p.m.
Upstairs Studio Theatre
Free to all; no tickets required
Join the students from Hollins Musical Theatre Performance Workshop for a showcase of solos, duets and production numbers from your favorite Broadway musicals.
Ten-Minute Play Festival
Student produced. Sponsored by Alpha Psi Omega
Thursday - Friday, Dec. 10 - 11, 7:30 p.m.
Upstairs Studio Theatre
Free to all; no tickets required
Children’s Theatre Production: Lyle the Crocodile
During January Short Term, Hollins Theatre creates a production of a popular children's story to tour area schools. The show will return to the Hollins main stage to kick off the spring semester. Bring a kid, or bring the kid in you. When the Primm family moves into a new apartment, their son Joshua discovers a saxophone-playing crocodile named Lyle already living there. Lyle is a showbiz-savvy crocodile who eats Turkish caviar and can put on quite a song and dance. Based on Bernard Waber's popular children's book, and adapted by Kevin Kling, who brought us Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, "this play for the whole family follows the adventures of the lovable reptile and his cranky neighbor Mr. Grumps, whose wrath lands Lyle in various predicaments including at stint at the zoo." Tickets are $5.
Thursday - Friday, Feb. 4 - 5, 10 a.m., elementary school performances
Satirday, Feb. 6, 2:00 p.m.
Hollins Theatre
$5, general public
Violet
The Award-Winning Musical
Book and lyrics by Brian Crowley
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Wednesday - Saturday, April 7 - 10, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 11, 2:00 p.m.
$10, general public
From the composer of Caroline or Change comes this uplifting and powerful off-Broadway musical that earned raves from critics, while winning the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, The Obie Award, and the Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding new musical. With a bus ticket in hand, Violet, a young white woman, travels across the South during the summer of 1964 on a triumphant journey to healing and self-discovery. Set against the backdrop of Vietnam and civil rights, she befriends two soldiers; one white, who sees a spirited girl with a scar across her face, and the other black, who shares her identity as an outsider and teaches her about beauty, courage and love. The joyous score begins with bluegrass as the bus pulls out of Asheville, transitions to country western as they approach Nashville, moves into rock and roll and blues as they roll into Memphis, and explodes into gospel when they hit Tulsa.
"Once in a while, you come across a show that puts an idiot grin of pleasure on your face, and you leave the theatre practically hip-hopping with the joy of living…I just tumbled into love with Violet. See it!" Clive Barnes, New York Post
"Violet made me more hopeful about the American musical than anything I’ve seen in ages." Howard Kissel, New York Daily News
Senior Studio
A senior thesis production directed by Heidi Hostetler
Thursday - Friday, May 7 - 8, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre
Free to all; no tickets required
Moliere Than Thou
Thursday, Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m.
Talmadge Recital Hall
$10, general public
In this hilarious one-man show, the great comedic dramatist, Moliere is left without a cast, so he offers to perform a "greatest hits" of sorts, and leads the audience through a hilarious succession of favorite speeches that trace his illustrious career. Tim Mooney plays Moliere, performing routines from Tartuffe, Don Juan, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Precious Young Maidens, The Misanthrope, and The School For Wives, among others. Join the comedic master as he takes a few deft stabs at some of his favorite targets: the doctors, lawyers, and the sanctimonious hypocrites who would attack him throughout the years.
"Emergetically brilliant ... flawlessly executed ... as stimulating as it is funny."
Dr. Jean McDonald, Georgetown College
"#1 of my Top Ten! One-of-a-kind ... original, weird and seriously funny ... one of the most creative and refreshing pieces of classical theatre I've seen in years ..."
Ruth Cartlidge, Chattanooga Pulse
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