Theatre
Exciting and powerful theatre experiences are waiting for you at Carroll. Comedies, dramas, new works, classics, plays and musicals are selected to inspire and entertain you.
Carroll's Theater Program
Whatever your theatre and performance aspirations are, Carroll can guide you towards a career in the theatre. The Arts and Sciences-Theatre program provides knowledge and skills in drama, expressive communication, performance, technical theatre and production. Graduates are well positioned to transfer to Maryland institutions, such as Towson University, as well as out-of state programs in Theatre.
Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 Theatre Performances
Children’s Theatre Production!
The Perils of Two Princes
By Edith Weiss
Directed by Bill Gillett
Our fourth annual children’s theatre production suitable for audiences of all ages. This show will tour to elementary schools, but you can see performances at Carroll before it hits the road. (50-minute performance – Free for all)
Meet the Prince Charmings of Cinderella and Rapunzel. Steve, a freelance narrator, is telling a story when he is interrupted by two dueling Princes: Prince Charming Hair and Prince Charming Smile. After Steve gets them to stop fighting, he narrates the story of Charming Hair and Cinderella. Steve gets a bit carried away at times, but they get to the traditional happy ending. This reminds Prince Charming Smile that he does not have a lady fair. When he meets Rapunzel, “imprisoned” by the wicked witch Imaboil and the New Age witch Esmepus, he falls deeply into shallow love. He determines to rescue her and win her as his wife. But Rapunzel doesn’t want the Prince, so Steve conjures up a sleeping Snow White. The final Happy Ever After happens to Steve, who, because of his honor, courageousness and kindness; is crowned Prince Charming All Round.
With a wonderful mix rich humor as well as delightful physical comedy, this play pleases audiences both young and old!
Saturday, Sept. 4, 4 and 6 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 5, 2 and 4 p.m.
Free admission
(This event is supported by Carroll Student Activities)
The Artificial Jungle
By Charles Ludlam
Directed by Bill Gillett
A Suspense Thriller!
With a veiled nod to Zola's Therese Raquin , Charles Ludlam modern retelling is both is a melodramatic thriller not to be missed. Chester Nurdiger lives in the back of his pet shop with his mother and his bored wife. One day a drifter comes along and they hire him to work in the shop. Sparks are ignited between the bored wife Roxanne and the slick Zachary Slade. They plot to murder Chester and feed him to the piranhas.
"Barely 20 seconds into the play the audience is already chortling. Lust, murder, maternal devotion, it has everything."-New York Daily News
"Wildly hilarious."-New York Post
Thursday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 10, 2 p.m.
Students/Seniors/Faculty/Staff $5, General Admission $10
Professor Wizard Wonders of Science
An exciting evening of family entertainment celebrating the wonders of science.
Friday, Oct. 22 and Saturday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m.
Students/Seniors/Faculty/Staff $5, General Admission $10
Proceeds benefit the Carroll Community College Foundation.
Androcles and the Lion
By Aurand Harris
Music by Glenn Mack
Directed by Jean Burgess
Refreshingly antic, irreverent treatment of Aesop's fable!
One of the most popular children's plays ever written, Androcles and the Lion has been produced in twenty countries. In Commedia dell’Arte tradition, a group of strolling players set up their stage and give a performance. Using authentic staging and stock characters of Commedia -- the miserly Pantalone, the bragging Captain, the romantic Lovers, the trickster Arlinquin, plus an endearing Lion -- Aesop's fable becomes a colorful theatrical experience. The play sky rockets with zany comedy, and glows with the warmth of friendship. Androcles and the Lion is a prize winning play, applauded around the world, again, and again!
Friday, Nov. 19, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 20, 2 and 7 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 21, 2 p.m.
Students/Seniors/Faculty/Staff $5, General Admission $10
RENT
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jonathon Larson
Directed by Bill Gillett
Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Bohème. It follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village. AIDS and both its physical and emotional complications pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom and Angel; Maureen deals with her chronic infidelity through performance art; her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble; Benjamin has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income and is on the outs with his former friends; and Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general, always behind the camera recording the events but never playing a part.
Wednesday, March 9, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 10, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 11, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 12, 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 13, 2 p.m.
Students/Seniors/Faculty/Staff $10, General Admission $15
Carroll Community College Drama Club is hosting its third One-Act Play Festival! Two - four one-act plays, which are student selected and produced. A variety of plays all in one performance!
Friday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 9, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 10, 2 p.m.
Free admission
