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2008 – 2009
Theatre Season
The Bluest Eye
By Lydia Diamond
Adapted from the Toni Morrison novel
OCTOBER 1 – 4,
8 – 11, 2008 ~ 7:30PM
OCTOBER 4 & 11,
2008 ~ 2:30PM, ETS
Tickets: $7.50 -
$12.50
Nobel Prize-winning author
Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is a story about the tragic life of a
young black girl in 1940's Ohio. Eleven year-old Pecola Breedlove wants
nothing more than to be loved by her family and schoolmates. Instead, she
faces constant ridicule and abuse. Blaming her dark skin, she prays for blue
eyes, sure that love will follow.
Hamlet
By William Shakespeare
NOVEMBER 13
-15, 20 – 22, 2008 ~ 7:30PM, Ira Aldridge Theater
Tickets: $7.50 -
$12.50
Prince
Hamlet is depressed. Having been summoned home to Denmark from school in
Germany to attend his father’s funeral, he is shocked to find his mother
Gertrude already remarried. The Queen has wed Hamlet’s Uncle Claudius, the
dead king’s brother. To Hamlet, the marriage is “foul incest.” Worse still,
Claudius has had himself crowned King despite the fact that Hamlet was his
father’s heir to the throne. Hamlet suspects foul play and seeks to prove that
his uncle murdered his father.
U.G.L.Y., a new musical
Book, music and lyrics by Darius Smith
A co-production with the Howard Players
JANUARY 30 –
31, FEBRUARY 1, 2009, ETS
Tickets: $7.50 –
$12.50
Geena is a
young, 11-year old girl struggling to find herself in Beulah, Alabama.
Dealing with a drug-addicted mother, a successful, yet absent auntie, a
spiteful school bully, Kiki, and an egocentric best friend, Delonte, Geena
searches for balance living in a world rooted deeply in physicality. Act I is
her adventure to become Beulah's first female 6th grade wrestler. Act II is
her journey of "re"-discovery as high school graduation quickly approaches.
Company
By George Furth
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
MARCH 5 – 7, 11
– 14, 2009 ~ 7:30PM
MARCH 7 & 14,
2009 ~ 2:30PM, Ira Aldridge Theater
Tickets: $8.00 -
$15.00
On the night of
his 35th birthday, confirmed bachelor Robert contemplates his unmarried state.
In vignette after hilarious vignette, we are introduced to "those good and
crazy people," his married friends, as Robert weighs the pros and cons of
married life. In the end, he realizes being alone is "alone, not alive."
2009
Spring Dance Concert
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF DANCE: Dr.
Sherrill Berryman-Johnson
APRIL 2009; Ira
Aldridge Theater
DANCE...
a timeless tradition, speaks the
voices of our people…
It parallels the circle of our
culture:
the continuum of our roots as
People of African Descent.
It mirrors from generation to
generation our power and strength in politics:
where we stand, what we believe,
and our strong will to do.
It signifies the foundation and
wisdom of family and life.
Dance is our language, speaking the
voices of our people, our culture.
Each choreographer communicates a distinctive voice and style shaped and
molded
through the body, mind, soul of Howard University Dance Majors. These
students
are learning and working through a range of studio technical languages in
addition
to discovering their own capabilities to hear, see, and speak as individuals,
yet
being guided to synthesize as one; the visionary message being delivered.
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