Carroll Community College

Rabbit Hole

By David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Bill Gillett
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize! 

Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their worlds upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.

"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation- an intensely emotional examination of grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty."-Variety.

"Grade: A! A transcendent and deeply affecting new play, which shift perfectly from hilarity to grief."- Entertainment Weekly.

"Rabbit Hole presents a tragedy and its consequences with utter candor, and without sentimentality. The dialogue is most impressive for capturing the awkwardness and pain of thinking people faces with an unthinkable situation- and eventually, their capacity for survival, and even hope."-USA Today.

"With Rabbit Hole, David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted the most serous, simply told work of his career-a painstakingly beautiful, dramtically resourceful, exquisitely human new play."-BackStage.

"A thoroughly absorbing, profoundly affecting and painfully touching examination of grief."-Bergen.

"The highest praise to playwright David Lindsay-Abaire! Rabbit Hole is an entertaining and satisfyning play-it might just be the year's best."-Show Business Weekly.

"A perceptive and poignant study in the day-to-day aches of bereavements: problems with persoanl intimacy, the eneasy friends who don't call, the emptiness ina house packed with reminders...Heartbreaking in its theme and details, Rabbit Hole is a beautifully crafted work of great sensitivity."-Star-Ledger.

Thursday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 12, 2 p.m.

Admission: $5 Students and Senior Citizens, $8 General Admission

This performance is recommended for mature audiences and not intended for small children .

Children's Theatre Production!

Cinderella! Cinderella!
By Edith Weiss
Directed by Bill Gillett and Chris Murk

 

Carroll Community College's Drama Club is presenting a children's theatre production suitable for audiences of all ages. This show will tour to elementary schools, but you can see performances of this play before it his the road. (45- minute performances)

Cinderella is a very kind and quite plane, especially compared to her beautiful yet selfish and vain stepsisters; and has big feet to boot. She learns in the course of the play that it isn't magic that will help you in life as much as the courage to stand up for yourself.

With rich humor for adults and children as well as delightful physical humor for even the youngest theatre goers, this play should not be missed!

Saturday, Oct. 25, 4:30 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 26, 2 p.m. & 4 p.m.
(This event is supported by Carroll Student Activities)

Admission: Free

Lord of the Flies

By William Golding
Adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams
Directed by Grady Weatherford

 

A plane crashes on a deserted island. The only survivors are a group of English school boys. Marooned, they live in a land of bright, exotic birds, and dark blue seas. But before long, this well-behaved group has descended into savagery, and turned into a blood-thirsty and murderous tribe. William Golding's gripping tale is still chilling and relevant today, igniting passionate debate with its startling portrayal of human nature.

William Golding's first novel is a modern classic. "Golding knows exactly what boys are like; he has a compelling imagination; and the vivid realism with which he describes the disintegration of their untried and precarious civilization under the pressure of raw nature carries the reader to the bloody climax...a most absorbing and instructive tale."-The Times

Playwright and novelist Nigel Williams' stage adaptation of Golding's story was first professionally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford upon Avon in July, 1995. "Remarkable true to the novel in spirit...the theatre lends itself particularly well to the ritualistic aspects of the story- chanting, dancing, marching, forming a circle around the victim, stamping out a fire...You end up feeling you have seen a fable of infinite implications enacted in a little room."- Sunday Telegraph

Two Special School Matinees
Thursday, Nov. 20, 9 a.m.
Friday, Nov. 21, 9 a.m.

General Audience Performances
Thursday, Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 23, 2 p.m.

Admission: $5 Students and Senior Citizens, $8 General Admission

 

The Laramie Project

By Moises Kaufman and the Members of the Tectonic Theater Project
Directed by Roberta Gore

 

The Laramie project is a breathtaking, theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink, and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating, and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the townspeople. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, while others were citizens of Laramie. The Laramie Project chronicles the life of the town of Laramie, in the year after the murder. Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving, theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences.

"One of the ten best plays of the year. A pioneering work of theatrical report and a powerful state event."-Time Magazine

"Astonishing. Not since Angels in America has a play attempted so much: nothing less than an examination of the American psyche at the end of the millennium."-The Associated Press

"There emerges a mosaic as moving and important as any you will see on the walls of the churches of the world. Nothing short of stunning. You will be held in rapt attention. A theatrical event not to be missed."-New York Magazine

Thursday, Jan. 22 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009, 2 p.m.

Admission: $5 Students and Senior Citizens, $8 General Admission

This performance is recommended for mature audiences and not intended for small children.

 

The Who's TOMMY

Additional Music and Lyrics by: John Entwistle and Keith Moon
Book by: Des McAnull and Pete Townshend
Lyrics by: Pete Townshend
Music by: Pete Townshend
Based on The Who's rock-opera, Tommy
Directed by Bill Gillett

 

Peter Townshend's tale of a young boy's journey from pain to triumph is the most electrifying evening of rock and roll ever to play in the theatre!

After witnessing the accidental murder of his mother's lover by his father, Tommy is traumatized into catatonia, and as the boy grows, he suffers abuse at the hands of his sadistic relatives and neighbors. As an adolescent, he's discovered to have an uncanny knack for playing pinball, and when his mother finally breaks through his catatonia, he becomes an international pinball superstar.

"TOMMY is at long last the authentic rock musical that has eluded Broadway for two generations- an entertainment juggernaut that lifts the audience right out its seats. TOMMY is the first musical in years to feel completely alive in its own moment."-New York Times

"TOMMY rocks Broadway with passion and wizardry."- Boston Globe

Wednesday, March 25, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 26, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 27, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 28, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 29, 2 p.m.

Admission: $8 Students and Senior Citizens, $15 General Admission

This performance is recommended for mature audiences and not intended for small children.

One-Act Play Festival!

Carroll Community College Drama Club is hosting its 2nd Annual One-Act Play Festival! Two to four, One-Act plays which are student produced. A variety of plays all in one performance!

Friday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 2, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 3, 2 p.m.

Admission: Free