Articles tagged with: comedy

• The Flu Season

  Sunday, March 13, 2016 | By Nikki Prudden

  Showtime: April 14 – 16, 2016, Curtain at 7:30 pm

  Location: the Dramatic Arts Theatre at 15 Artists’ Common

  Will Eno’s “The Flu Season” plays whack-a-mole with everything you expect love to be.

  On stage in the Dramatics Arts Theatre, this Oppenheimer award-winning play has been selected by the graduating dramatic arts students as the strangest, most theatrical screen shot of the state of romantic affairs today.

  This unexpected comedy comes from the playwright the New York Times hails as “a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation.”

  Romance is hacked and hijacked when a man and woman meet in a “retreat centre” that is surely unique in the known universe. They are under the observation of technicians and caretakers who are themselves infected by the multiplying pathetic fallacies of romance. Lovers are mad. Love hurts. Love makes you do crazy things. Love is The Flu Season.

  Guided by director and Professor Gyllian Raby, the 4F56 company includes: Elizabeth Amos, Eliza Anthony, Kelsey Burcher, Mary Askwith, Maria Evers, Alex Franks, Mark Harrigan, Robert Herr, Daryl Hunter, Jeremy Knapton, Katelyn Lander, Kevin Langendyk, Cole Larson, Oriana Marrone, Melinda Mohammed, Josh Sanger, and Raylene Turner.

  The Flu Season runs April 14, 15, and 16, at 7:30 pm, in the Dramatic Arts Theatre at the Marilyn I.Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, 15 Artists’ Common, in downtown St. Catharines. Tickets are $5 (applicable fees and taxes are extra) and can be purchased at the door, or through the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre Box Office. email: boxoffice@firstontariopac.ca; or visit online at: firstontariopac.ca

  You can receive a $2 discount on your ticket with a purchase of a meal of $5 or more from the following participating downtown eatries: Mahtay Café, Rise Above, The Bull BBQ Pit, Sky Bar Lounge at Brock University, Bella Noella’s Pizzeria, Gwen’s Teas, and So Jollof. Simply bring your restaurant receipt or voucher to the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre Box Office to receive this discount. This offer is not available online.

  Limited paid parking is available on-site, however, there are more than 1,000 spots available in nearby parking garages, surface lots and on city streets within a five-minute walk to our address at 15 Artists’ Common. Visit http://www.stcatharines.ca/en/livein/ParkingLotsGarages.asp for a list of parking locations.

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  Tags: Art is in the City, comedy, DART 4F56, Imagining the City, itc, love, romance, The Flu Season, Will Eno
  

• TWELFTH NIGHT, (or what you will) a comedy by William Shakespeare at the Department of Dramatic Arts

  Tuesday, October 29, 2013 | By mbalsom

  

  image by Nitin Vadukul

  TWELFTH NIGHT, (or what you will)

  a comedy by William Shakespeare

  November 7 – 9, 2013 at 7:30 PM
  Student Matinee November 08 at 11:30 AM

  DIRECTED BY Gyllian Raby
  Co-Director and Vocal Coach: Danielle Wilson
  Assistant Director and Dramaturge: Keavy Lynch

  If music be the food of love, play on!
  “Twelfth Night, (or what you will)” presented on stage at the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre

  The Department of Dramatic Arts’ rendition of Twelfth Night gives this classic Shakespearean comedy a 20th century twist, setting it in the 1950s and taking audiences to the era of soul-searching country blues. This production runs November 7, 8 and 9, 2013 at 7:30 p.m., and November 8 at 11:30 a.m., held at the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Brock University.

  The magical fictitious kingdom of Illyria is a modern world where boys are boys and girls are girls and subterranean passions blow apart rigid conventions. Fools, lovers, and shipwrecked souls grapple adverse fortunes and comic misunderstandings to find what truth and love might mean. To meet Shakespeare’s demand that Illyria be a land where music is “the food of love,” we present the fool musician Feste as the leader of a country blues band.

  The production is a directorial collaboration between Dramatic Arts faculty Gyllian Raby and Danielle Wilson, assisted by Keavy Lynch. Raby states, “We are performing Twelfth Night using music rooted in contemporary culture, so although this production is not a musical, music is threaded throughout the play.” Wilson adds, “The play has many of the elements common to Elizabethan romantic comedy, including the devices of mistaken identity, separated twins, and gender-crossing disguise, and its plot revolves around whether one can manage betrayal, and overcome the obstacles to truth and love.“

  Have a look at our media release (PDF).

  Let us know you’re coming by joining our Facebook Event.

  High-School teachers should read this letter about the Matinee performance opportunities available for Twefth Night (November 2013) and Jehanne of the Witches (February 2014)  (PDF)
  

  A Study Guide is available for review,
  prepared by Gyllian Raby and Keavy Lynch:
  download to print a copy (PDF, 2.0 MB)

  watch this preview on Cogeco TV:

  see the article in the Brock News!

  

  (From left): Sean Rintoul, Chris Chapman and Bri Lidstone perform in the Department of Dramatic Arts production of Twelfth Night, which opens Nov. 7 at the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre.

  Announcing $5.00 Fridays!

  all holders of Brock ID cards – students, staff and faculty – are invited to take advantage of a special new price for the Matinee mainstage performance. Please present your ID card upon purchase of your ticket.
  Tickets for all performances including the $5.00 Friday Matinees are available through the  Box Office of the Centre for the Arts
  or  905.688.5550  x 3257

  For more information, please contact Marie Balsom, Co-ordinator of the School of Fine and Performing Arts, at 905-688-5550, ext. 4765; e-mail: mbalsom@brocku.ca

  Tags: comedy, Mainstage, plays, Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
  Categories: Events, Plays