MACHINAL PLAYWRIGHT: SOPHIE TREADWELLDIRECTOR:
L. ZANE The story involves Helen (Deborah Ann Woll) whose entire life has been dictated by the people and machines around her. She follows the rituals that society expects of a woman, however resistant she may feel about them, and subsequently marries her boss, whom she finds repulsive. After having a baby with him, followed by an affair with a younger man who fuels her lust for life, she is driven to murder her husband. She is found guilty of the crime and meets her end in one of the deadliest of machines, the electric chair. - Summary from Wikipedia
THE THREEPENNY OPERA PLAYWRIGHT: BERTOLD BRECHTCOMPOSER: KURT WEILLDIRECTOR:
ANDREW J ROBINSON A large cast of singer-actors bring the Brechtian gutters of London satirically to life.The stage literally crawls with two-legged vermin: we meet the enterprising Mr. Peachum, dealer in human misery, a man of unctuous charm and winking hypocrisy.He is well paired with a perfect shrew of a helpmate, the terrifying Mrs. Peachum. Before long their winsome daughter Polly (Deborah Ann Woll) shows her true bloodlines in a mesmerizing transformation from blushing bride to the homicidal “Pirate Jenny.” And the bridegroom? The dapperMacheath – murderer and thief, criminal boss and polygamist, a mock-gentleman hero with a heart of pure lead. -USC Trojan Family Magazine, Diane Krieger
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL PLAYWRIGHT:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREDIRECTORS: NIKE DOUKAS
AND MARK RUCKER “...Now it chanced that [Helena] (Deborah Ann Woll) burned more in love with Beltramo than ever she did before. She heard by report that the French king had a swelling upon his breast, which by reason of ill cure wasgrown to be a fistula, which did put him to marvelous pain and grief, and that there was no physician to be found (although many were proved) that could heal it... Wherefore the king, like one in despair, would take no more council or help. Whereof the young maiden was wonderful glad, thinking to have by this means, notonly a lawful occasion to go to Paris, but if the disease were such (as she supposed) easily to bring to pass, that she might have the Count Beltramo to her husband. Whereupon with such knowledge, as she had learned at her fathers hand before time, she make a powder of certain herbs which she thought meet for that disease and rode to Paris....”
-From “Giletta of Narbona”, by William Painter, source of All’s
Well that Ends Well
BRILLIANT TRACES
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
THE SWAN
NECESSARY TARGETS
THE MARRIAGE OF BETTE AND BOO
