2008-09 SCC Fine Arts Theatre Season

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Our Town

By Thornton Wilder

October 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11 at 8 p.m.
October 5 and 12 at 2 p.m.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play that opened in 1938 to mixed reviews has become one of the most popular produced plays of the 20th Century. Set in the early 1900s, the narrator allows the audience to have a peek into the lives of the residents of Grover’s Corners, a small New England town.

The play centers on two families, the Webbs and the Gibbs. As we watch the drama unfold, we realize that the passage of time has not affected how we act, live or react to everyday events.

Parallel Lives

By Beverly Coyle and Bill Maxwell

October 24 and 25 at 8 p.m.
October 26 at 2 p.m.

SCC proudly presents Parallel Lives. A white college professor and an African-American newspaper journalist were commissioned by the Florida Humanities Council to write essays about their experiences growing up in Central Florida during the Jim Crow era. The parallels in their stories led to a speaking tour and eventually to Parallel Lives, a play that captures your attention and makes you experience both sides of the race issue. Echoes still reverberate today, more than 50 years later.

Hair (the musical)

Book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni
Music by Galt MacDermot

November 14, 15, 20, 21 and 22 at 8 p.m.
November 16 and 23 at 2 p.m.

A Christmas Carol (a one-man show with 37 characters)

By Charles Dickens

December 4, 5, and 6 at 8 p.m.
December 7 at 2 p.m.

Southern Winds Theatre joins SCC to present Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Directed by Marylin McGinnis and starring David A. McElroy as he plays 37 different characters including Scrooge, Tiny Tim and all the Ghosts, in his wonderful adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic. This is Southern Winds' second year at SCC and their eleventh year presenting this timeless tale. 

Ticket prices for this production are as follow:

• General Public: $12
• Seniors (60+): $10
• SCC Faculty/Staff: $5
• Currently enrolled SCC students: $5

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

By August Wilson

January 30 and 31 at 8 p.m.
February 1 and 8 at 2 p.m.
February 5, 6 and 7 at 8 p.m.

This play was inspired by W.C. Handy's Blues song of the same title and Romare Bearden’s painting of Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket. Set in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911, Herald Loomis, who has recently spent seven years on a chain gang, has come to Pittsburgh in search of his wife and his identity. This was a common migration at that time for African Americans who were trying to leave their oppressive living conditions in the South in hope of finding financial success in the North.

Othello

By William Shakespeare

February 26-28 at 8 p.m.
March 6, 7 and 8 at 8 p.m.
March 21 and 8 at 2 p.m.

A tragedy of jealousy and divided love, Shakespeare's classic Othello, the Moor of Venice, was based on a tale "Of the Unfaithfulness of Husbands and Wives" by sixteenth-century Italian writer Giraldi Cinthio. No character in literature can touch us more than Desdemona, and no character can shock and repel us more than lago. Between the two stands Othello, courageous, dignified, insecure and gullible. What Shakespeare wrote about almost 400 years ago still rings true today.

Dance Performance (TBA)

April 17 and 18 at 8 p.m.
April 19 at 2 p.m.

Did you know?

Students in SCC's Fine Arts Theatre program have an opportunity to participate in three major student productions, one lab production, and select OTP productions each year.