AmeriCulture Arts Program: 2004-2005 Season
 Zoo
Story by Edward Albee
Sept. 9 & 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 13 at 4:30 p.m.
Tickets on sale at the door. For information call 978-665-3555.
$5 students & seniors
$7 general public
Percival Auditorium, Fitchburg State College, Highland Avenue
FSC Theater Program Faculty and professional actors, Kelly Morgan
and Richard McElvain team up to revive Albee's timeless and brilliant
play about a duel to the death over a park bench in New York City.
This will be the first time Kelly and Richard have appeared together
onstage and is an event not to be missed. "Zoo Story"
is a moving examination of the question, "In our encounters in life
who do we really see and who do we demean by passively denying their
very existence?" "Zoo Story" is funny, moving and eerily
contemporary. All proceeds will benefit the new Rehearsal Scholarship
Fund for performance and technical theater students.
Color of the Moment
Artist Yona Vaughan
Sept. 23 Opening at 6 p.m.
Gallery hours Thursdays and Fridays 3-6 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays
1-4 p.m. through Oct. 17
$2 general admission, Free for students and seniors
Johnsonia Gallery, 532 Main Street, Fitchburg
" I do not pretend to be an authority on what colors signify
emotions and situations. I have titled the show "Color
of the Moment" because the colors were what came to me
while trying to portray certain feelings and situations. All of
my art stems from my imagination, past and current emotions. I categorize
my style as being predominantly symbolic with a touch of surrealism.
Others might say it is something else, but as long as the message
of my work is seen then I feel my goal has been accomplished. It
is my hope one can look at "Color of the Moment"
and relate to a personal memory or feeling." - Yona
Vaughan
Playing for Time by Arthur Miller (based on Musicians of Auschwitz
by Fania Fanelon)
Directed by Cap Corduan
Oct. 10 & 17 at 2:00 p.m.
Oct. 12, 15, 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 13, 14 @ 6:00 p.m.
McKay Campus School Auditorium, Rindge Road, Fitchburg
This drama that tells the story of a group of women prisoners in
Auschwitz who survived the gas chambers by playing in a small orchestra.
Based on a true story, it is powerful adaptation of Holocaust survivor
Fania Fanelon's autobiography. Fanelon, a Jewish singer-pianist,
was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World
War II. She survived by becoming a member of the prison's female
orchestra. In the process, she struck up a close relationship with
Alma Rose, the musical group's leader, as well as the other members
of the band. Playing for the Nazis, however, robbed the women of
much of their dignity and most of them often questioned whether
remaining alive was worth the abuse they constantly suffered.
Dance in the Desert
Oct. 29 and 30 at 7:00 pm
Oct. 30 and 31 at 2:00 p.m.
Guild Hall Theater, Christ Church, 569 Main Street, Fitchburg
Adults $5, Students/Seniors/Children $3. Call 978-342-0007,
ext. 31 or visit www.christchurchfitchburg.com
for ticket information.
An original piece of choreography based on the book "Dance in the
Desert" by Madeleine L'Engle.
Wit by Margaret Edson
Directed by Denise Alexander
Nov. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 7 at 2:00 p.m.
Nov. 8 at 4:00 p.m.
Percival Auditorium, Fitchburg State College, Highland Avenue
Call 978-345-3012 for information.
Tickets, available at the door only, are $7 for general admission
and $5 for seniors and students.
This extraordinary Pulitzer Prize winning play is as intellectually
challenging as it is emotionally immediate. At the start of
Wit , Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English
who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliantly difficult
metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal
ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach
to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational,
deeply witty. But during the course of her illness-and her stint
as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a
major teaching hospital-Vivian comes to reassess her life and her
work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for
her and for the audience. Produced in association with Central Mass
Repertory Theater, FSC Professor, Pamela K. Hill, plays Vivian.
12 Angry Jurors (based on Twelve Angry Men) by Reginald
Rose
Directed by Kelly Morgan
Nov. 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 14 at 2:00 p.m.
Nov. 17 at 6:00 p.m. following the Rollstone Church's monthly
spaghetti supper.
Nov. 18 at 6:00 p.m.
Cookman Hall, Rollstone Church, 199 Main Street (Walking distance
from FSC) (Directions)
Behind closed doors, a jury must vote "guilty or not guilty."
A 19-year old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of
his father. At first, it looks like an open-shut case, but then
becomes personal as each juror reveals his or her character as the
various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and
a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short,
arguments grow heated and jurors become twelve angry people.
Once On This Island, Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Music by
Stephen Flaherty
Directed by Theresa McEndarfer
Dec. 2, 3, 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 4 at 2:00 p.m.
Percival Auditorium, Fitchburg State College, Highland Avenue
Based on the novel My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy and produced
in association with the FSC Falcon Players, this musical tells the
story of an island where two different kinds of people live--peasants
whose fates were at the mercy of the gods, and Grandhommes whose
rich ways allowed them to create their own destinies When
the peasant girl Ti Moune, falls in love with Daniel, a Grandhomme,
the island's world is disrupted. Ti Moune strives to sew these
two different peoples into one. The story takes us on a musical
journey--a journey to test the strength of love, against the power
of death. "Rousing, musical theatre!" The
New York Times.
Florence Nightingale: A Medical Revolutionary
Feb. 4 and 5 at 7:00 p.m.
Feb. 6 at 2:00 p.m.
Guild Hall Theater, Christ Church, 569 Main Street, Fitchburg
Kathy Kay Duckett performs this one-woman show
based on the life of Florence Nightingale. Not recommended
for children under 12 years.
General Admission $7, Students, Seniors and Nursing Professionals
$5. Call 978-342-0007, ext. 31 or visit www.christchurchfitchburg.com
for ticket information.
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Directed by Richard McElvain
Feb. 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 18, 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 13 at 2:00 p.m.
Feb. 17 at 6 p.m.
Weston Auditorium, Fitchburg State College, North Street
This is a myth common to all humanity. The story involves a prince
who must restore order to a broken down universe. The heroic journey
he embarks upon brings him to the point of embracing his fate. Nothing
much happens in Hamlet . People fall in love, fight wars, sword
fight, and exhume loved ones. People spy on and betray best friends
and family. Did I mention the sword fights? Some people are banished.
Some are poisoned. Others are stabbed to death while spying. Corpses
are embraced-maybe even kissed. And perhaps more than in any other
play ever written we ask the question, "What is this thing called
a life and what should we do with it?" Come find out what is rotten
in the state of Denmark. It's no snooze.
Q.E.D.
Directed by Denise Alexander
Feb. 24, 25, 26; Mar. 3, 4, 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Condike Science Lecture Hall, Sanders Bldg., Fitchburg State College,
Highland Avenue
Produced in association with Central Mass Repertory Theater, Q.E.D.
chronicles Richard Feynman, the Nobel prize-winning physicist, during
a day at the California Institute of Technology. We learn why Feynman
is passionate about knowledge. We are shown how his desire to solve
problems stemmed from his lock-picking practice, how he found his
work on the Manhattan Project both inspiring and humbling, and how
his shattering analysis of the cause of the Space Shuttle Challenger
explosion resulted in public humiliation for NASA. A seductive mix
of science, human affections, moral courage and comic eccentricity.
Celebrating Differences
Fitchburg Public Schools Youth Arts Show
Opening Reception--Thursday, March 24 from 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Exhibit open March 26, and April 2, and 9 from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00
p.m.
Johnsonia Gallery, 532 Main Street, Fitchburg
Fitchburg Public School students in grades 1 through 8 exhibit
their selected works celebrating diversity. This is a collaboration
of the Fitchburg State College AmeriCulture Arts Program, Johnsonia
Gallery and Fitchburg Public Schools. You will love the work--colorful,
amusing, imaginative, and hopeful!
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman
Directed by Kelly Morgan
November, 2005
This play is the result of more than 200 interviews conducted
by Moises Kaufman and members of New York 's Tectonic Theater Project
when they visited Laramie, Wyoming, after the murder of Matthew
Shepard. It follows, and in some cases re-enacts, the chronology
of Shepherd's visit to a local bar, his kidnapping and beating,
and the discovery of him tied to a fence. It mixes news reports
with actors portraying friends, family, cops, killers, and other
Laramie residents in their own words--words that could be those
of any community in the country .
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