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2020-2021 ACADEMY SEASON
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Streaming Radio Play
Directed by Dan Hendrock
October 29.30,31, Nov 1
"The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898).
It was performed and broadcast live as a Halloween episode at 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 30, 1938, over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by Charles Dickens in 1843
Streaming Radio Play
Adapted for Radio by Tom Fulton
Directed by Tom Fulton
Streamed in 5 episodes from
December 18 - January 3, 2021
1843 and illustrated by John Leech.
A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.
THE 13th ANNUAL
SENIOR IMPROV SHOW
Developed for ZOOM Video
by Dan Hendrock
and the Academy classof 2021
Streaming Video Program
Live Streamed December 18 & 19
7 pm and 9 pm both nights!
Improvisation is a perfect performance style fo these days of uncertainty and confusion. We use "Second City" stylings in our set ups and performance skill and rule.
The
Laramie Project
March, 2021
a video project directed by
Dan Hendrock, with cinematography by Ben Needham: Laramie Project is a 2000 play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.
The murder was denounced as a hate crime and brought attention to the lack of hate crime laws in various states,
The Laramie Project is an example of verbatim theatre, the play draws on hundreds of interviews conducted by the theatre company with inhabitants of the town, company members' own journal enportray more than sixty characters in a series of short scenes.
MACBETH
by Wm. Shakespeare
Directed by Tom Fulton
Senior Editor - Sam Roter
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It is Also his shortest. Basically: Three witches tell the Scottish general Macbeth that he will be King of Scotland. Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth kills the king, becomes the new king, and kills more people out of paranoia. Civil war erupts to overthrow Macbeth, resulting in more death.
This is a Video presentation of Macbeth shot at the end of last year. With 2020 alums and 2021 grads. Streaming April 2021
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Tom Fulton RADIO SHOW - Streaming May 21-31
The Importance of Being Earnest is the most renowned of Oscar Wilde’s comedies. It’s the hysterical story of two bachelors, John ‘Jack’ Worthing and Algernon ‘Algy’ Moncrieff, who create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. A Love Story, A Farce, and A Satire of Victorian Society.