1986 Theatre Archive
- January 25-26, 1986
- By Moses Goldberg
- Directed by Chris Pagano
- (Studio Theatre)
Aladdin hops and tumbles through his fantastic adventures as the audience helps create the magic in this participation play.
- February 28, March 1-2, 6-9, 1986
- Musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
- (Univ. Theatre)
An enchanting and deliciously French romp of a musical that will take you back to the turn of the century, springtime in Paris and love!
- March 7-8, 1986
- (Dance Studio/Physical Education Bldg.)
Six Bay Area College are set perform a variety of dance pieces.
- May 2-3, 1986
- (Univ Theatre)
Student performances with student, faculty and guest choreographers.
- May 9-10, 16-18, 1986
- By Beth Henley
- Directed by Edgardo de la Cruz
- (Studio Theatre)
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, we are transported to hurricane season in Mississippi, where three sisters are weathering storms of the heart. A slice of 1980's southern life -- poignant, whimsical, hilarious.
- May 23-24, 30-31, 1986
- By George Bernard Shaw
- Directed by Ric Prindle
- (Univ. Theatre)
Who wins when a realist and an idealist vie for the allegiance of a fence-straddler? This conflict becomes personal (and hilarious) when the competitors are father and daughter.
- June 6-7, 1986
- Various Playwrights
- (Studio Theatre)
Variety is the key in two different programs of student directed one-act plays.
- July 25-26, 1986
- By Sam Shepard
- Directed by Ric Prindle
- (Studio Theatre)
Curse is a curious bonding of an O'Neillesque, booze-wracked family with Shepard's cocky Greenwich Village histrionics. And so the curse goes: not poor enough for help, not rich enough to pull themselves out of the dung heap. No breaks in sight. Escape seems to be the only answer --- whether by car, sex or the bottle.
- August 22-24, 1986
- By George Abbott and Richard Bissell
- Music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
- (Univ. Theatre)
The Pajama Game focuses on a pajama factory where workers are threatening to strike if their demands for a wage increase are not met. When the factory superintendent and the head of the grievance committee fall in love, the plot unfolds into a complicated situation.
- October 2-3, 1986
- Music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
- Adapted by Ric Talento and Ava Kaye
- (Univ. Theatre)
Presented in collaboration with the City College of San Francisco.
- October 31, November 1, 7-9, 1986
- By Jane Martin
- Directed by Ric Prindle
- (Studio Theatre)
A kaleidoscope of vignettes --- comic, dramatic, and theatrical --- depicting various moments in women's lives.
- November 21-22, 28-29, 1986
- By Bertolt Brecht
- Revised English version by Eric Bentley
- Directed by Edgardo de la Cruz
- (Univ. Theatre)
This play is a parable --- in spite of Brecht's denial. This production is an attempt to find a theatrical expression appropriate to the parable form. This play is about stupidity, inhumanity, corruption, intemperance, injustice, rapacity and other things.