Production Gallery

Spring 2010

Senior theatre majors directed three very different British plays, running in repertory. The thesis festival was directed, designed, managed and performed by students under the advisement of faculty members Sharon Fogarty and Sandra Goldmark.

Saint Joan of the Stockyards

By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Sharon Fogarty
Set design by Sandra Goldmark
Lighting Design by Solomon Weisbard
Choreography by Kristi Spressard
Costume Design by Meganne George
Sound Design by Fitz Patton
Dramaturgy by Hana Worthen
Musical Dramaturgy by Emma Goidel
Musical Direction by Jonathan Jager
Stage Management by Alex Shaw

Twenty-five years after Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, Bertolt Brecht's St. Joan of the Stockyards draws on history, on the mythology of Brecht's Chicago, and on the example of Bernard Shaw to stage a searching parable of moral and economic responsibility, set in the boom-and-bust of the Depression meatpacking industry. Directed by Sharon Fogarty, a member of the Theatre faculty and co-Artistic Director of the legendary New York experimental theatre company Mabou Mines.

Fall 2009

DISSIDENT ACTS: 3 Plays

Catastrophe by Samuel Beckett
The Police by Slawomir Mrozek
The Unveiling by Václav Havel

Directed by Gary Cherniakhovsky
Dramaturgy by Hana Worthen
Set Design: Simon Pastukh
Lighting Design: Betsy Adams
Costume Design: Galina Solovyeva
Sound Design: Jill Du Boff
Video Design: Dustin O'Neill
Stage Manager: Laura Oseland

Dissident Acts: 3 Plays presents works by Samuel Beckett, a member of the WWII resistance, as well as by his political counterparts and dramatic inheritors, the Polish and Czech playwrights Slawomir Mrozek and Václav Havel. Beckett's miniature 1982 Catastrophe interrogates the public role of art in a taut homage to Havel, at the time imprisoned for subversion of the state. Mrozek's 1958 The Police, unveils the deep absurdity of totalitarianism, and Havel's 1975 Unveiling, transforms this absurdity into the hypocrisy of its elite. Taken together, these plays, performed by Barnard and Columbia students, refuse to be museified as documents of the (in)human past; they extend the dissident inquiry of the liberal arts, animating an ongoing interrogation of the politics of our present.

Molière's
TARTUFFE

With Barnard and Columbia Students
Directed by Will MacAdams
Set design by Heather Englander
Lighting design by Chris Brown
Costume design by Sandra Goldmark
Sound design by Elizabeth Rhodes
Stage management by Caroline Englander

Molière was a great favorite of King Louis XIV, and although Tartuffe was first performed at Versailles in 1664, the next version of the play was banned because of strenuous objection by the church, which took umbrage with Molière's virulent attack on religious hypocrisy. Molière embarked on a years-long,early modern French version of a public relations campaign to rehabilitate the reputation of his play. He eventually succeeded in winning over the Sun King, which may have had something to do with the playwright's shrewd introduction of a certain royal who appears to restore order and harmony at the play's conclusion.The Theatre Department welcomes Columbia School of the Arts directing alumnus Will MacAdams, who will direct an all-women ensemble of Molière's brilliant and timely comedy.

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Billy & Han

Created & Directed by Dan Hurlin

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Three Sisters

By Anton Chekhov

Directed by Denny Partridge