The
2009 - 2010 Performing
Arts Season Schedule
All performances begin
at 8:00 P.M. The Belmont
Abbey College Performing
Arts Theatre is located
in the Haid building.
DOUBT
by John Patrick Shanley
August 27, 28, 29, September
3, 4, 5
8:00 P.M.
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THE REVIEWS: Winner
of the 2005 Pulitzer
Prize and Tony
Award. "All
the elements
come invigoratingly
together like
clockwork in
John Patrick
Shanley's provocative
new play, DOUBT,
a gripping story
of suspicion
cast on a priest's
behavior that
is less about
scandal than
about fascinatingly
nuanced questions
of moral certainty.
Something rare
for this season:
a laudable new
American play." —Variety. "#1
show of the year.
How splendid
it feels to be
trusted with
such passionate,
exquisite ambiguity
unlike anything
we have seen
from this prolific
playwright so
far. Blunt yet
subtle, manipulative
but full of empathy
for all sides,
the play is set
in 1964 but could
not be more timely.
In just ninety
fast-moving minutes,
Shanley creates
four blazingly
individual people.
DOUBT is a lean,
potent drama…passionate,
exquisite, important
and engrossing." —NY
Newsday. "A
beautifully balanced
drama. Shanley
is a writer working
at the top of
his craft, making
the most of a
muted but evocative
palette in the
pursuit of truth's
shadows. Here,
for the first
time in a long
time, is a play
that is about
something." —Chicago Tribune. "An
eloquent and
provocative investigation
of truth and
consequences.
A gripping mystery,
tightly written." —Time Out.
THE
IMPORTANCE OF BEING
EARNEST by Oscar
Wilde
September 24, 25, 26,
October 1, 2, 3
8:00 P.M.
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Oscar Wilde's
classic is a
delight from
the first cucumber
sandwich, as
Jack's double
life catches
up with him.
The problems
are resolved
in an extremely
charming and
quite unexpected
way as Jack and
Algernon discover
the importance
of being earnest
while answering
to the name Earnest.
THE
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
November 12, 13, 14,
19, 20, 21
8:00 P.M.
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It is reported
that Queen Elizabeth
I specifically
asked Shakespeare
for another play
that featured
his immortal
comic creation
Sir John Falstaff;
the result was The
Merry Wives of
Windsor,
the 2009-2010
Shakespeare Series
production. Falstaff
embarks upon
a quest to seduce
Mistress Ford
and Mistress
Page, the "merry
wives" of
the title, and
the two women
turn the tables
upon him and
their husbands!
CHRISTMAS AT THE
ABBEY
December 5
8:00 P.M.
Dedicated to the
Abbey Players, 1883-2009
An Abbey Players tradition,
an evening of music and
festive readings from
the season.
OF
MICE AND MEN by John
Steinbeck
February 25, 26, 27,
March 4, 5, 6
8:00 P.M.
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Two drifters,
George and his
friend Lennie,
with delusions
of living off
the "fat
of the land," have
just arrived
at a ranch to
work for enough
money to buy
their own place.
Lennie is a man-child,
a little boy
in the body of
a dangerously
powerful man.
It's Lennie's
obsessions with
things soft and
cuddly, that
have made George
cautious about
who the gentle
giant, with his
brute strength,
associates with.
His promise to
allow Lennie
to "tend
to the rabbits" on
their future
land keeps Lennie
calm, amidst
distractions,
as the overgrown
child needs constant
reassurance.
But when a ranch
boss' promiscuous
wife is found
dead in the barn
with a broken
neck, it's obvious
that Lennie,
albeit accidentally,
killed her. George,
now worried about
his own safety,
knows exactly
where Lennie
has gone to hide,
and he meets
him there. Realizing
they can't run
away anymore,
George is faced
with a moral
question: how
should he deal
with Lennie before
the ranchers
find him and
take matters
into their own
hands.
Book by Peter
Stone
Music by Sherman
Edwards
Lyrics by Sherman
Edwards
Based on a concept
by Sherman Edwards
ASSASSINS
April 22, 23, 24, 29,
30, May 1
8:00 P.M.
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ASSASSINS a musical
By Stephen Sondheim
(music and lyrics)
and John Weidman
(book) is a critically
acclaimed look
at the men and
women who have
shot the presidents
of the United
States, both
those who succeeded
and those who
did not. ASSASSINS is alternately
funny and horrifying
as it examines
the dark side
of the American
Dream, and recently
completed a successful
Broadway revival.
Join us for the
season finale
with this compelling,
disturbing show!


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