The
Festival of Student Works will showcase student talents in all areas of the performing and visual arts.
Opening Night, Say It Somehow
Opening Night, Say It Somehow is an evening of music and dance from Broadway to Bossa Nova, featuring NSU’s
most talented performers.
The Dining Room
By A.R Gurney The Dining Room is comprised of a mosaic of interrelated scenes—some funny, some touching, some rueful.
This Pulitzer Prize nominated play examines the decline of the dining room as the center of family interaction.
Peace: A Holiday Concert ’08
Peace: A Holiday Concert ’08 features the vocal and instrumental ensembles of the Farquhar College
of Arts and Sciences.
Choreographed by Elana Lanczi, M.F.A. Residue is a new dance work choreographed by NSU dance faculty member Elana Lanczi, M.F.A., assistant professor
in the Division of Humanities. Inspired by a personal loss, the dance examines the impact of an unexpected tragedy and
celebrates the little moments that make life worth living.
Baby
Book by Sybille Pearson
Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.
Music by David Shire
Based upon a story developed with Susan Yankowitz Baby tells the story of three couples on a university campus as they deal with the painful, rewarding, and agonizingly
funny consequences of this universal experience. There are the college students, barely at the beginning of their adult
lives; the thirty-somethings, having trouble conceiving but determined to try; and the middle aged parents, looking forward
to seeing their last child graduate from college when a night of unexpected passion lands them back where they started.
Performances 2007-2008
Cinderella by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III
The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale is reborn as a musical with Rodgers and Hammerstein
hallmarks of originality, charm, and elegance.
The Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort
NSU Theatre opened its third season with this drama, inspired by true events. The play followed
a mother from New Jersey as she roamed the hills of Lockerbie, Scotland, looking for her son’s remains that were lost in
the crash of Pan Am 103. She met the women of Lockerbie, who were determined to convert an act of hatred into an act
of love by washing the clothes of the dead and returning them to the victim’s families.
Directors' Festival of One-Acts
The final offering of the year featured a festival of student-directed works.
Muscle to Bone: Moving the Power Within
A full-length dance concert of six dance pieces
choreographed by guest artists and college faculty members, and featuring NSU student dancers.
Peace: A Holiday Concert
A holiday concert featuring the vocal and instrumental ensembles of the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences.
Performances 2006-2007 Season
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
NSU Theatre opened its second season with Shakespeare’s classic comedy. This timeless tale includes mistaken
identity, scorned lovers, rebellion, fairies, magic, and rustic characters.
The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Members of
the Tectonic Theater Project
A docudrama based on testimony compiled in Laramie, Wyoming by members of the Tectonic Theater Project after
the beating death of college student Matthew Shepard. The play examines the identities of the town
and America by creating a collage of material taken from Tectonic’s year-and-a-half investigation.
Groove: A Movement and Identity Journey
The second production of the season had eight pieces related to various aspects of human identity.
It incorporated dance aspects from African, modern, contact improvisation, hip-hop, step, etc. into an evening of soul-filled,
meaningful movement.
Directors' Festival of One-Acts
The final offering of the year featured the inaugural festival of student-directed works.
Performances 2005-2006 Season
The Night of the Assassins by José Triana
In this controversial and complex study of a revolutionary family, three siblings perform a ritualistic
murder of their parents. The play was originally written in Cuba in 1964, and was subsequently banned
there for 30 years.
The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney
Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney's translation of Sophocles' Antigone was originally commissioned to mark
the 100th anniversary of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in 2004. Partly inspired by the war in Iraq, Heaney’s retelling
of Sophocles’ tragedy gives Antigone a contemporary voice and parallels the world in which we live.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (stage adaptation by Joan Holden)
Barbara is conducting a covert experiment to work minimum wage jobs—waiting tables, cleaning hotels and houses,
and working at Walmart. Through her actions and narrration, the play demonstrates the stark lives
and times experienced by many working Americans today, raising important questions about social and economic disparity
in the United States.
