2007-2008 Season

Spring | Stanford Summer Theater 2008

Please note: dates, times, and productions are subject to change.

Mainstage
Harlem Duet

•written and directed by Djanet Sears
•May 15–17, 22–24 at 8:00 pm
•Roble Studio Theater, Roble Gym

The Department of Drama is proud to welcome Djanet Sears to Stanford, where she will direct her play Harlem Duet, a prelude to Shakespeare’s Othello. Winner of Canada’s highest literary honor for dramatic writing—the Governor General’s Literary Award—in 1998, Harlem Duet was revived in 2006 at the Stratford Festival, North America’s largest theater festival, and was the first black work to be produced in the festival’s fifty-four year history, the first to be directed by a black woman (Sears), and the first with an all-black cast.

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Workshop Performance
Undergraduate Directing Workshop

Plays TBA | May 15-17 at 8:00 pm | Prosser Studio Theater, Memorial Hall

Ongoing Series
SImps End of Quarter Showing

May 23 and 24 at 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm | Pigott Theater, Memorial Hall
Please visit http://simps.stanford.edu

Red Rover: Five Site-Specific Dance Performances on the Stanford Campus
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•Wednesday, May 28 from 7-9 PM
•Meet at Roble Gym at 7pm sharp for a walking tour of the performance sites
•Maps and guides to the dance ramble provided
•Cost: Free and open to the public

RED ROVER is a traveling performance of five site-specific dances, commissioned especially for five magical outdoor locations on the Stanford campus, featuring new works by Bay Area choreographers Brittany Brown Ceres, Janice Garrett, Brenton Cheng, Hope Mohr, and Bliss Kohlmeyer-Dowman. The audience will travel from site to site during the hours from dusk to twilight, 7-9 PM, to a shared picnic and lively discussion under the stars, adjacent to Shumway fountain, for all the performers and audience members.
Presented by the Department of Drama and the Dance Division and co-sponsored by SICA and Stanford Lively Arts.

May 30 and 31 at 8:30 pm | please gather at the New Guinea Sculpture Garden to walk together to the site-specific location; free and open to the public

Acoustic walk, design, and environments created by Johanna Sophie Santos Bassetti.

Spanish Butcher/Carnicero Español by Rodrigo Garcia, performed by Mireya Obregon; directed by graduate student Virginia Preston with the assistance of Jocelyn Sears.

Dead Hands: what excites me written and directed by Jake Haskell; performed by Jake Haskell and Johanna Sophie Santos Bassetti.

Paper works by Elisabeth Barnick and sound by Max Citron. Conceived in collaboration by Virginia Preston, Johanna Sophie Santos Bassetti, and Jake Haskell.

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Brian Friel’s Translations 

•directed by Ed Iskandar
•Thursdays through Sundays, July 10–27 at 8:00 pm
•additional Sunday performances at 2:00 pm
•Pigott Theater, Memorial Hall

Brian Friel’s Faith Healer

•directed by Rush Rehm
•Thursdays through Sundays, July 31-August 17 at 8:00 pm
•additional Sunday performances at 2:00 pm
•Pigott Theater, Memorial Hall

For more information about the plays, symposium, and free film series, please visit http://summertheater.stanford.edu.

For ticketing information about all Department productions, or to join our email list, please contact:
The Stanford Department of Drama
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