FALL 2012

50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Hosted by the Department of Theatre & Dance

Enjoy an evening of dance, drama and delightful music. For one night only our alumni, students, faculty, staff and special bay area guests will come together to perform. This is a BENEFIT SHOW. Donations will be accepted throughout the evening and funds collected will go to our student scholarship program.
      October 20 @ 7 PM
       University Theatre
         FREE Admission

THE GOOD PERSON OF SETZUAN

  By Tony Kushner, adapted from the play by Bertolt Brecht
        (translation by Wendy Arons)
  Special Guest Director Corey Fischer

Among Bertolt Brecht’s funniest, most accessible and moving plays, the play is set in the imaginary town of “Setzuan” China. But the play’s characters are clearly   recognizable as members of the “99%” who can be found in any country. In this timeless theatrical parable, three rag-tag gods come to earth with the mission of   discovering whether a thoroughly good person can survive – or even exist – on the troubled planet earth.      
       November 9, 10, 16, 17 @ 8 PM
       November 18 @ 2 PM
          University Theatre
         $15 General; $10 Discount; $5 CSUEB Student

NN12

   By Gracia Morales
   Directed by Dawn Monique Williams

California State University, East Bay will produce the US premiere of NN12, written by Gracia Morales, an award winning contemporary Spanish playwright. Morales’ play gives life to the disappeared political prisoners throughout Latin America and Spain, in this spare yet moving and disturbing play. Though ambiguous in its setting, Morales implicates the Spanish atrocities, still within living memory, of the Franco regime. NN12 is a story of the living and the dead, exploding the persistence of memory. Morales blends a family drama with a ghost story to incriminate the abuse of power. In describing the play, the director Dawn Monique Williams said, "Morales merges the past and present in a beautifully challenging way. We get a portrait of the life of the missing, but also of the survivors. The cost of reconciliation here is hauntingly high and deeply moving." Morales will be in residence for the two performances, engaging in pre and post show discussions. Her travel from Spain was made possible by a University Grant.
    November 30 & December 1 @ 8pm
          Studio Theatre – all seats $5

Ice & Ice X Dance Extravaganzas

This annual holiday concert introduces performers and work from across the campus and community. See the seeds of emerging work alongside bold experiments in movement. Ice-X produced by the Inclusive Interdisciplinary Performance Ensemble.
    Ice: December 7 @ 8pm; December 8 @ 8pm
    Ice-X: December 8 @ 8pm
       Studio Theatre - All tickets $5

AS YOU LIKE IT

   By William Shakespeare
   Directed by Dawn Monique Williams
An escapist piece from the world’s favorite playwright, AYLI features the romantic Rosalind disguised as the too dashing Ganymede, the sourpuss Jaques, smitten lovers, usurpers, and exiles. In the magical forest of Arden (still standing near Shakespeare’s home town) the contented country life infects them all but the most melancholy.
     December 14-15 @ 8pm and Dec. 16 @ 2pm - all seats $5
       Studio Theatre – All tickets $5

WINTER 2013

BAT BOY – The Musical

   Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming
   Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe
   Directed by Marc Jacobs
   Musical Direction by Sierra Dee
   Choreography by Laura E. Ellis

In 1992 the Weekly World News published a story about a boy found in a cave. With bat-like features, the feral boy was considered an oddity at best. Was he a boy? Was he half bat? Would he be accepted or shunned? Who would befriend him? Would he be tormented? How do you make a world famous musical from such a strange story? What makes this moving story important to our diverse community?

    March 8,9, 15, and 16 at 8 PM
    March 17 at 2 PM
      University Theatre
      $20 General; $15 Discount; $10 CSUEB Student

SPRING 2013