October 26, 2009
It’s Comedy Night for PVCC Theatre
Charlottesville Va. - Piedmont Virginia Community College will present The Bald Soprano and The Actor's Nightmare, Nov. 6-7 and 13-14, at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 7 and 14 at 2:30 p.m. in the Maxwell Theatre (Black Box) in the V. Earl Dickinson Building. All tickets are $5.
The Bald Soprano, by Franco-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco, has been an international classic of the comic theatre for almost 60 years. It was Ionesco's first play and remains one of the most popular plays from the Theatre of the Absurd genre.
The play takes place in a quintessential British home in the 1950s with the very British couple, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and their dinner guests, Mr. And Mrs. Martin. Aided by the maid and a fire captain, the group struggles valiantly as language breaks down into total miscommunication.
The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang was inspired by the classic anxiety dream that many actors have: that they must perform in a play they have never rehearsed and don't know their lines or the plot. Soon, Nightmare's unassuming accountant-turned-actor finds himself adlibbing his way through an unidentified play that transforms itself into hilarious versions of Private Lives, Hamlet and Endgame. His dismay grows when he realizes the next scene is from A Man for All Seasons-the execution scene to be exact.
Christopher Durang is a leading comic playwright whose works include Beyond Therapy, Baby with the Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and the original companion piece to The Actor's Nightmare, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You.
Directed by Kay Bethea, PVCC professor of theatre and music, the plays are cast with PVCC students Christian Anderson, Chloe Elsass, Sean Haggerty, Hope Herndon, Koda Kerl, Brendan Lynch and Darlene Sacco. PVCC student Sarah Richardson is stage manager.
Seating is limited and late seating will not be allowed. Tickets are available by calling the PVCC Box Office and charging them to a VISA or MasterCard or by purchasing them from the PVCC Box Office two hours before curtain time on the day of the show.
For more information contact the PVCC Box Office at 434.961.5376 or log on to www.pvcc.edu/performingarts.
