Current Season
The Departments of Theatre and Stagecraft & Event Technology present four productions each year with two in November and two in March. Students work on stage and behind the scenes under the guidance of professional directors and designers.
Winter 2010
Studio Theatre March 19 - 27
The Suicide (PDF)
The Suicide
by Nikolai Erdman
A comedy with a Russian twist
Directed by John Cooper
Set Design Omanie Elias
Costume Design Danica West
Lighting Design Dave Winstanley
Shows: March 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 @ 7:30, March 22 @ 12pm, March 27 @ 2pm
Synposis:
Semyon Semyonovich, an unemployed 'little man', wakes his wife so she will cook him a sausage. After she refuses, they fight, and he locks himself in the bathroom. Under the misassumption that her husband has become suicidal, she enlists the help of her mother and neighbors to save him. Semyon leaves the bathroom to set the record straight, but the damage is done. Word spreads about Semyon's desire for death. A series of characters come to pay Semyon a visit, all enlisting him to die for their cause or in their name. Swept up in his own importance and the idea of becoming a hero, Semyon eventually agrees to kill himself during a banquet held in his honor. At the party, however, Semyon faces the truth - he wants to live. He fakes his own death, only to accidentally come to life in the middle of his own funeral, at which point events spiral to a glorious climax.
Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre March 25 - April 2
Italian American Reconciliation (PDF)
Italian American Reconciliation
by John Patrick Shanley
A folktale about love
Directed by Stephen Drover
Set Design Tara Arnett
Costume Design Trena Coulter
Lighting Design Dave Winstanley
Shows: March 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, April 1, 2 @ 7:30pm, March 27 @ 2pm, March 29 @ 12pm
Synopsis:
This sparkling, gritty romantic comedy is set against the backdrop of New York's Little Italy. Playwright John Patrick Shanley has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Academy and Tony Awards; his works include Doubt and Moonstruck.
Huey Maximilian Bonfigliano has a problem: While he is safely divorced from his shrewish first wife, Janice, who shot his dog and even took a bead on him, he feels he cannot regain his "manhood" until he woos and wins her one more time if only to put his broken marriage behind him once and for all. He enlists the aid of his lifelong buddy, Aldo Scalicki, a confirmed bachelor who tries, without apparent success, to convince Huey that he would be better off sticking with his new lady friend, Teresa, a usually placid young waitress whose indignation flares when she learns what Huey is up to. In a moonlit balcony scene (hilariously reminiscent of Cyrano de Bergerac) Aldo pleads his lovesick friend's case and, to his astonishment, Janice capitulates although not for long. However we do learn that her earlier abuse of Huey was intended to make him "act like a man" which, at last, he does. And, more than that, he (and the audience) become aware that, in the final essence, "the greatest and only success is to be able to love" a truth which emerges delightfully from the heartwarming, wonderfully antic and always imaginatively conceived action of the play.
Box Office
Effective September 2008 the Departments of Theatre and Stagecraft & Event Technology will be using an external ticketing service that will allow you to purchase tickets in person, over the phone or online. To purchase tickets please call the Massey Ticket Centre at 604-521-5050 or visit the Massey Ticket Centre
*Please note, unless otherwise noted all performances will be held at the New Westminster campus. Although the Massey Theatre will handle advanced ticket sales none of our performances will take place there. Our old box office phone number will no longer take ticket reservations.
Tickets can be purchased at the door, but are subject to availability and are cash-only.
For more information about our productions call 604-527-5723
Ticket Prices & Showtimes
$15 General Admission
$10 Students (with valid picture ID)
$10 Seniors (Age 65+)
$10 Douglas College Theatre and Stagecraft & Event Technology Alumni
$7.50 Matinees, Talk-Back Tuesdays & Groups of 10 or more
Unless otherwise posted, performances are 7:30pm nightly with no show on Sunday or Monday evenings. Saturday matinees are 2pm, weekday matinees are typically Mondays at 12pm.
Theatre locations
Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre
The Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre is room 4100 (fourth floor, north side) New Westminster Campus, 700 Royal Avenue.
Studio Theatre
The Studio Theatre is room 4140 (fourth floor, north side), New Westminster Campus, 700 Royal Avenue.
Parking
New West Campus map
Pay parking is available in the Douglas College parkade accessible from the corner of Lorne Street and Victoria Street and at Carnarvon Street and Begbie Street.
Meter parking is limited on Royal Avenue, 8th Street and 7th Street (two hour limit until 6:30pm).
Other lots are located north of the Royal Towers Hotel (7th Street and Queens Avenue) and near the Columbia Skytrain Station.