These plays are all directed and chosen by students enrolled in the Directing course (Speech – Drama 4315). These productions are the culmination of a quarter of hard work, including lectures, discussion, research, and a series of short directing exercises.
An Alpha Psi Omega Fraternity Student Production. In the play, the Captain is slowly and painfully driven mad with doubt that he is not the father of his child. Laura, his wife, insidiously plants suspicion in him in order to have her own way with the child’s future. She is meticulous in her planning, gaining the confidence of the family doctor and all of their friends. The drama mounts and reaches a feverous climax as the Captain, once a distinguished scientist and officer realizes that his only escape is death.
Reader’s Theatre. Hayward Area Concert Association presents The Spirit of the Renaissance.
Student Faculty Reader’s Theatre. Under Milk Wood its genesis in 1944 in one of Dylan Thomas' BBC programs that the he called "Quite Early One Morning". This was a set of vignettes of the people of a little seaside town as they emerged from their dreams one winter morning.
"This is really not a play about lesbianism, but about a lie". When Lillian Hellman made this statement about The Children’s Hour at the time of its first production, the implications of "the big lie" were just beginning to be felt by people sensitive to contemporary events. In 1934, Adolf Hitler was well under way in the shaping of a new Germany, Stalin was about to start his purge trials in Moscow, and the world was beginning to feel the results of modern technology applied to the dissemination of lies and half-truths.
Written during the Peloponnesian War, The Trojan Women (415 B.C.) shows Euripides profound disillusionment with Greece and the war-party in power at the time. His play attempts to arouse pathos for suffering brought about by war. In it he condemns the barbarity, folly and futility of war, which ruins victor and vanquished alike.