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 IMPORTANT NEWS:

 

ACTING SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOP!

Saturday, December 5 @ 11:45 AM-2:00 PM in STCN (Student Center) 130.

Theatre department chair Paul Wickline will present an acting workshop on handling heightened language to help prepare actors for auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Come learn about scansion, supporting the ends of verse lines, breathing and phrasing and handling antithesis in this two hour workshop.

PLEASE RSVP if you plan to attend the

 workshop by emailing

 paul.wickline@canyons.edu

 

DRAMA CLUB MEETING!

Tuesday, November 24 @ 2:00-2:30 PM in

 STCN (Student Center) 130.

Theatre department chair Paul Wickline will discuss the establishment of a student drama club and future club activities.

 

2009 Jack Oakie Scholarship Packet DUE!

EXTENDED DEADLINE --

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd @ 5:00 PM

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Spring 2010 Audition Information!

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

David Ives' One Acts

New Works Festival

 

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2009-2010

Theatre Season

 

COMEDIANS OF THE CANYONS

 

 

SEE

 

IMPROVISATION

 

@ COC!

 

Saturday, November 7  Saturday, December 5

 

Valencia Campus

 

 

8:00 PM in the COC BAND ROOM202

PCOH HALL 202

 

WE MADE THE SANTA CLARITA NEWSPAPER!:

http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/18317/

 

 

"NO SCRIPT.

 

 

NO SETS.

 

 

NO SHAME."

 

The advanced Improvisational Performance theatre class at College of the Canyons, otherwise known as the Comedians of the Canyons, will present their FINAL IMPROVISATION show of the semester. The performance is free and open to the public. Performances may contain adult language and mature content.


 

 

HAIR: The American

 

Tribal Love-Rock Musical

 

Book and Lyrics:  James Rado and Gerome Ragni

Music: Galt MacDermot

Directed by: Randee Trabitz

PAC Mainstage

 

Performance Dates and Times: 

10/16, 10/17, 10/23, and 10/24 @ 8 PM

10/18 and 10/25 @ 2 PM

Tickets: $12/$6

TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH PAC BOX OFFICE:

 

http://www.canyons.edu/offices/pio/canyonspac/hair.html

 

Description:                      

 

"Give me a head of hair, long beautiful hair, shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen...let it fly in the breeze...I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy..."

 

The year is 1968. The place is a park in Greenwich Village, NYC. As a social commentary of our times, HAIR provides an insight into the philosophy of the flower children of the 1960's. Experience a “Be-in”, the burning of draft cards, and “experimentations.” As the first and most successful of the rock musicals, HAIR provided a new element in musical theatre entertainment.

 

Production contains mature subject matter and adult language.


 

 

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by Jane Martin

 

 

Directed by: Susan Hinshaw

PAC Black Box Theatre

 

Performance Dates and Times:            

11/18, 11/19, 11/20, and 11/21 @ 8 PM and 11/22 @ 2 PM

$10/$5

 

TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH PAC BOX OFFICE:

 

http://www.canyons.edu/offices/pio/canyonspac/keelydu.html

 

 Click here for PRESS RELEASE

 

Description:                      

"For your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too..."Pro-life. Pro-choice. Who is accountable, God or man? What man or woman can be accountable for a human life? What is the extent of individual freedom? What is a rape victim's right? What is a Christian's duty? These are among the infinitely troubling questions provoked by Jane Martin's drama Keely and Du.

Keely, a young woman, is kidnapped by a right-to-life organization on her way to an abortion clinic. While being held captive, Keely forms a relationship with Du, the pro-life nurse who looks after her.

In this close encounter with two opposing sides, how far does a friendship go? Here is a story that evenly explores both sides of this volatile debate, where irresistible forces meet unwavering convictions.

Production contains mature subject matter

 and adult language.


 

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ORIGINAL WORKS by COC STUDENTS in the TH 195 SOLO PERFORMANCE CLASS

 

Directed by Susan Hinshaw

 

Performance Dates and Times:

Tuesday, 12/1 and Wednesday, 12/2 @ 7:30 PM

 

ADMISSION: "Pay What You Can"  / $5.00 donation suggested

 

Production contains mature subject matter and adult language.

 


DELIGHTFUL

 

DISORIENTATION:

 

The World According to

 

David Ives 

 

by David Ives

PAC Black Box Theatre

Performance Dates and Times: 

4/14, 4/15, 4/16, 4/17 @ 8 PM and 4/18 @ 2 PM

 

Tickets: $10/$5

 

TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH PAC BOX OFFICE:

 

http://www.canyons.edu/offices/pio/canyonspac/delightful.html

 

Director: Paul Wickline

 

Audition information:

Tuesday, February 16th @ 6:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre

Wednesday, February 17th @ 6:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre

Thursday, February 18th (CALL BACKS @ 6:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre)

If needed, Friday, February 19th will also be used for CALL BACKS @ 6:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre)

For more information about auditions, CLICK HERE:

Spring 2010 Audition Information!

 Description:                      

“Delightful Disorientation” is a handpicked selection of contemporary playwright David Ives’s best one-act plays. As a playwright, Ives is known for his combination of wit, intellect, and absurd sense of fun; his characterizations, comedic timing and verbal hijinks make for frequently hilarious situations.

A man exists in a strange state where he must ask for the opposite of what he wants in a restaurant (“The Philadelphia”), three chimpanzees attempt to write Hamlet (“Words, Words, Words”), two mayflies are burdened with the knowledge of their own mortality (“Time Flies”), David Mamet’s work is brilliantly parodied (“Speed-The-Play”) and much more….

Ives’s short comedies are extremely popular, and have been performed on Broadway and around the country. This witty, clever and frequently absurd collection of short plays by David Ives promises a terrifically entertaining night of theatre.

Utterly delightful one-act plays that percolate with comic brio…. There is a real heart beneath Ives’s intellectual tomfoolery. The New York Times

Production contains mature subject matter and adult language.

 

 

NEW WORKS FESTIVAL

 

Scripts Due NOVEMBER 11th by 6:00 PM!

 

See information below...

 

 

 

 

PAC Black Box Theatre

Director: David Stears

 

Performance Dates and Times:            

4/28, 4/29, 5/1 @ 8 PM and 5/2 @ 2 PM

 

Tickets: FREE

 

More information is available at...

http://www.canyons.edu/departments/theatre/newworksfestival/

 

 

Audition information:

Tuesday, February 16th @ 6:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre

Wednesday, February 17th @ 6:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre

Thursday, February 18th (CALL BACKS @ 6:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre)

If needed, Friday, February 19th will also be used for CALL BACKS @ 6:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre)

For more information about auditions, CLICK HERE:

Spring 2010 Audition Information!

 

 

Description:                      

 

“Tomorrow’s Playwrights… Today!”

Presented by the Theatre and English departments at College of the Canyons

 

2010 marks the 10th anniversary of the NEW WORKS FESTIVAL. Enjoy the face of new and often experimental theater as COLLEGE OF THE CANYONS THEATRE continues its critically-acclaimed New Works Festival. Open to the Santa Clarita Valley community and beyond, the New Works Festival takes works in progress from unheralded playwrights and puts them on the stage. Do you have a script that needs to be seen? Submit it and watch your dream become a reality!

 

For MORE INFORMATION visit the NWF website:

 

http://www.canyons.edu/departments/theatre/newworksfestival/

 

 

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S

DREAM

William Shakespeare

Director:  Stephen Whelan

PAC Mainstage

 

Performance Dates and Times:

5/21, 5/22 @ 8:00 PM and 5/22 and 5/23 @ 2 PM

Tickets: $10/$5

 

TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH PAC BOX OFFICE:

 

http://www.canyons.edu/offices/pio/canyonspac/midsummer.html

 

Audition information:

Tuesday, February 16th @ 6:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre

Wednesday, February 17th @ 6:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre

Thursday, February 18th (CALL BACKS @ 6:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre)

If needed, Friday, February 19th will also be used for CALL BACKS @ 6:30 PM in the Black Box Theatre

For more information about auditions, CLICK HERE:

Spring 2010 Audition Information!

 

 

Description:      

“What happens in the forest … stays in the forest!”

Delicious and dark, entertaining and erotic, A Midsummer Night's Dream is an intoxicating blend of mortals, mechanicals and faeries, all thrown together in one place at one time.

When lovers cross with mischievous sprites in a magical forest, nothing is how it appears.

Lysander loves Hermia. Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Demetrius used to love Helena but now loves Hermia. Soon Lysander and Demetrius will both love Helena! Oberon loves Titania. Titania loves Oberon but falls under a magic spell and falls in love with Bottom. Bottom … loves himself. Confused? Come see why “the course of true love never did run smooth.”

A host of Shakespeare's most well-known characters (Puck, Bottom, Oberon, Titania – and many others) make A Midsummer Night's Dream one of the world’s greatest romantic comedies and one of his most popular plays.

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