Performance Season

2012-13 

 

Block 2

Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen

Directed by Andrew Manley

Thursday and Friday October 18 & 19 at 8 pm and

Saturday October 20 at 4 pm and 8 pm

Studio A, Cornerstone Arts Center

Tickets are free with CC ID, $5 for general public and available at the Worner Student Center (719-389-6607) and prior to the performance subject to availability.

Peer Gynt, one of the world's most reckless classics, jumped out of the brain of a Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, one hot summer in 1867. 

Peer Gynt. Hero or loser? Liar, narcissist, storyteller, dreamer, wild boy, arms dealer, Emperor of the Self. He's saved by a song. (Or is he?) Saved by love. (Or is he?) Kept alive in the heart of a woman. (Really?) Did he exist? (Do any of us exist?) What is he doing in this work of theatre? Is it a work of theatre? What is a work of theatre?

In all its unstageable madness (many scenes, a plot that is indescribable but best summed up by saying it’s a long journey that visits every dream and every nightmare) Peer Gynt is a pitiless self-portrait of a man fleeing the most essential conflicts within himself, endlessly seduced by his own trolls.

A wild exciting theatrical journey, this unique production relocates the play in Appalachian America.

 

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Block 6

I am the space where I am

A collaborative performance installation conceived by Gypsy Ames, Marie Green-Davis, Patrizia Herminjard, Andrew Manley, Shawn Womack

March 7-9, 2013

7:00-9:00 pm

Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, Colorado College

This performance installation is free and no tickets are required to attend.

"Every corner of a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol for solitude for the imagination, that is to say, it is a germ of a room, or of a house."

~Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space 

An installation performance event, I am the space where I am, reverberates throughout the Cornerstone building with poetic imagery and movement, constructed environments, spoken word and intimate narratives. Corners, ledges, stairways and stairwells in Cornerstone, the building's ordinary and hidden spaces, are revealed and layered with memory and new meanings. Audiences are invited to set their own course through the building and discover the inter-related events for a two-hour period ove three nights. Twenty-four student performers join Theatre and Dance faculty members – Gypsy Ames, Marie Davis-Green, Patrizia Herminjard, Andrew Manley, and Shawn Womack – along with lighting designer Jane Spencer and sound designer, CC alum Adam Stone to re-imagine the spaces within this striking new arts center.

 

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Block 8

 

All in the Timing
Written by David Ives
Directed by Kate Aronson

For audition information, go here

7:30 pm May 9 and 10, 2:00 pm May 11 in the Cornerstone Black Box Theatre

Tickets are free with CC ID, $5 for general public and available at the Worner Student Center (719-389-6607) and prior to the performance subject to availability.

A collection of five short, contemporary comic plays written by David Ives whom Time magazine has called “a wondrous wordmaster” and “a mordant comic who puts the play back in playwright.” This critically acclaimed, award-winning evening of comedies combines satire, wit, and intelligent, quirky humor to produce what the Washington Post called “Lewis Carroll meets the Marx Brothers at a party catered by James Joyce.”

The five plays explore themes like the complications one encounters in romantic relationships (Sure Thing, where a couple’s first meeting is played out over and over again with varying results), to a satirical take on an historical event (Variations on the Death of Trotsky), to existential perspectives on life (Words, Words, Words, in which three chimpanzees with three typewriters, in a scientific experiment, are expected to produce Hamlet). What tie all of the pieces together are Ives’ verbal dexterity, theatrical invention, and comic brilliance.

When the play was first produced, the New York Times raved, “Like sketches for some hilarious, celestially conceived revue; the writing is not only very funny, it has density of thought and precision of poetry.” At once witty and sharp, incisively intelligent, and side-splittingly funny, All in the Timing is “theater that aerobicizes the brain and tickles the heart” (Time magazine).

 

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2013-2014

 

Block 2

 

The Icarus Play

Written and directed by Idris Goodwin

 

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Block 4

Macbeth

Written by William Shakespeare

Directed by Andrew Manley

 

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Block 6

Terrain

New choreography by Patrizia Herminjard, Nail Ibrigamov, Debra Mercer and Shawn Womack

With special guest performers from Russian contemporary dance company, Pantera. 

 

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Block 8

Angels in America

Written by Tony Kushner

Directed by Thomas Lindblade