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the producing arm of the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre
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Nevada Repertory Company Announces Tentative Season

Nevada Rep has made the following selections, pending granting of performance rights, for the 2010-11 season productions.
Fall 2010
Stop Kiss  by Diana Son
Is He Dead? By Mark Twain

Spring 2011
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Fat Pig by Neil LaBute

(Directing & design assignments TBD)

Stop Kiss is a contemporary play about two young women in New York who meet, talk about their boyfriends, feel a growing, unspoken attraction for each other, and finally kiss. And that one innocent kiss sets off a savage gay-bashing. (8 performances—early October)

Is He Dead? is the recently unearthed comedy written by Mark Twain. Published in 2003, it was first written in 1898. The play focuses on an impoverished artist who, with the help of his colleagues, stages his death in order to increase the value of his paintings! The story incorporates elements of burlesque, farce, and satire to raise questions about fame, greed, and the value of art. (8 performances—mid November)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is Shakespeare’s classic adventure of four young Athenian lovers, a group of amateur actors, and their interactions with the Duke of Athens and the Queen of the Amazons. It all takes place in a moonlit forest with a famously funny “ass-inine” transformation performed by mischievous faeries. (9 performances—early March)

Fat Pig is a gripping play by Neil LaBute, a playwright, who continues to face down ugly truths of our society. LaBute’s play gives us the story of Tom, an in-shape professional in a large city, who falls for a very plus-size librarian named Helen. Tom is taken with her brash acceptance of the way people see her and her honesty, even as he struggles to accept her appearance himself. Helen eventually gives him an ultimatum—either accept all of her or end the relationship. The play ends with trademarked LaBute shock. (8 performances—late April)

2009-2010 Season Above: Aukai Almeida and Kate Orr in Neveda Rep's production of Ubu the King running October 2 - 11, 2009. Ubu the King Cast List Romeo & Juliet Cast List

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2009-2010 Season

Fall Semester				Spring Semester
Ubu the King		Romeo & Juliet		ACTF Region VII Festival		Grease
Opens October 2 and 3, 2009		Opens November 13th, 2009		February 14 - 20, 2010		Opens April 16th, 2010
UBU THE KING** By Alfred Jarry Directed by Rob Gander October 2—11 Redfield Proscenium Theatre One of the most extraordinary events of the late nineteenth century in Paris happened December 11, 1895 at the Theatre de l’Oeuvre where the audience was scandalized by Alfred Jarry’s revolutionary satire Ubu Roi. Developed from a school boy farce, Ubu Roi began with a four letter word, defied all the traditions of the stage, and ridiculed values of the bourgeois society. The script for this production will be adapted, translated, devised, and improvised by University of Nevada, Reno students to recapture the outrage, lewdness, and satire of Jarry’s original. **Warning: This production contains crude language, bathroom humor, and may offend conservatives, liberals, independents, women, men, eunuchs, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and people from all walks of life. Sorry, no nudity. This production is a proud entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and organization dedicated to encourage, recognize, and celebrate the finest and most diverse work produced in university and college theater programs.		ROMEO and JULIET By William Shakespeare Directed by Jim Bernardi November 12—22 Redfield Studio Theatre One of Shakespeare’s most popular and accessible plays, Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star crossed-lovers and the unhappy fate that befell them as a result of a long and bitter feud between their families. The play contains some of Shakespeare’s most beautiful and lyrical love poetry and is perhaps the finest celebration of the joys of young love ever written.		AMERICAN COLLEGE THEATRE FESTIVAL -- REGION 7 We are pleased to be hosting the Region 7 ACTF event which runs from February 15 through February 19 . For more information go to: www.kcactf.org/7.		GREASE Book, Music and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey Directed by Sue Klemp April 16—May 2• Redfield Proscenium Theatre Here is Rydell High's senior class of 1959; duck-tailed, hot-rodding "Burger Palace Boys" and their gumsnapping, hip-shaking "Pink Ladies" in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head "greaser" Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of their "Summer Nights" as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such songs as "Greased Lightnin'", "It's Raining on Prom Night", "Alone at the Drive-In Movie" recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. An 8-year run on Broadway and two subsequent revivals along with innumerable school and community productions place Grease among the world's most popular musicals. "A lively and funny musical--as well as the dancingest one in town...it's a winner...the songs are dandies [that portray] the early rockers with zip and charm...the sheer energy of Grease carries all before it."---N.Y. Daily News

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