Productions

THE RIMERS OF ELDRITCH, by Lanford Wilson
October 30—November 1
Evenings:  Friday and Saturday @ 7:30 PM
Matinees:  Friday and Sunday @ 2:30 PM
Jackson Auditorium
In the small mid-western town of Eldritch, a man has been murdered leaving many questions. Who he is, who murdered him, and what were the circumstances?  Immersed in the bleak but beautiful rhythms of Eldritch, the audience will solve the mystery in question, but be left to ponder the meaning and justice of the resolution.  In the end, Eldritch will remind us of other familiar American locales, and the truth of its revelations will haunt us long after the play has ended.

NICKEL AND DIMED, by Joan Holden
A staged reading based on the book by Barbara Ehrenreich
November 17, 19, & 20
Evenings:  Tuesday and Thursday @ 7:30 PM
Matinee:  Friday @ 2:30 PM
Jackson Auditorium
Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling, firsthand account of life in low-wage America is vivid and witty, yet always deeply sobering.  Joan Holden's stage adaptation is a focused comic epic shadowed with tragedy, introducing us to a cast of characters who wage their life struggles with a gallantry that humbles Barbara, and the audience.  The play shows us the life a third of working Americans now lead, and makes us angry that anyone should have to live it.

Nickel and Dimed will be presented as a staged reading, in support of the 2009 Krost Symposium, which features a keynote address by Ehrenreich on Wednesday, November 18th at 7:30 PM in Jackson Auditorium.  

ALMOST, MAINE, by John Cariani
March 5—7
Evenings:  Friday and Saturday @ 7:30 PM
Matinees:  Friday and Sunday @ 2:30 PM
Jackson Auditorium
On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of deepest winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of Almost find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected, unusual, and often-hilarious ways.  Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken.  But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this enchanting midwinter night's dream.  

IN A NORTHERN LANDSCAPE, by Timothy Mason
Dates and Times TBA, Spring 2010
Jackson Auditorium
A haunting, emotionally charged memory play, In a Northern Landscape takes place in a Minnesota farming community in the 1920s.  Samuel Bredahl, a young college student, lives with his puritanical mother; his dryly-academic father, a professor of philosophy at the local college; and his sensitive, restless sister, Emma.  Bored and isolated, Samuel and Emma are drawn ever more closely together-- and apart from their stern parents and Samuel's boorish fellow students.  When the relationship becomes incestuous, dire consequences follow, leaving his family to ponder their roles in these tragic happenings and the lifelong retribution that they must face as a consequence.

XpressFest.10
Featuring TBA Improv!
Apr. 15—17, Times TBA
Jackson Auditorium
In addition to showcasing original student plays, movies, and annual projects, the 10th Annual XpressFest features performances by TLU’s improv troupe “TBA!”  

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