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2010-2011 SEASON

A FLEA IN EAR

By Georges Feydeau

October 15, 16, 17 at 7:30 pm

October 16 at 3:00 pm

October 17 at 4:00 pm

A FLEA IN HER EAR is the greatest of French farces, perhaps the greatest farce ever written. Raymonde Chandebise suspects that her husband, Victor, a placid and successful insurance executive, is secretly having an affair. To find out, she and her friend Lucienne write him an anonymous love letter suggesting a rendezvous at the shady Frisky Puss Hotel. Thinking the letter was intended for his coworker, the gigolo Tournel, Victor sends Tournel off to make the rendezvous in his place. Lucienne s jealous Spanish husband, meanwhile, finds the letter, recognizes his wife s handwriting and takes his pistols to the Frisky Puss, hoping to catch her in the act. Meanwhile, Victor s nephew Camille tries to warn everyone about the mix-up, but his ridiculous speech impediment prevents anyone from understanding him. In Act Two, all decamp to the Frisky Puss where, it turns out, the drunken bellboy Poche is the exact double of the proper Victor Chandebise. Meeting Poche and thinking she s been caught by her husband, Raymonde keeps trying to escape from the hotel with Tournel, but a revolving bed keeps flinging them from room to room, as more and more of the involved parties pile into the hotel in a climax culminating in the entrance of the jealous Spaniard and his pistols. In Act Three the vortex spins even faster as all the parties return to the Chandebise home utterly confused about what actually happened and who was who at the Frisky Puss. The drunken bellboy arrives, is mistaken once again for Victor, and all the threads of the multiple mix-ups are sorted out as Victor and Raymonde recognize their mutual confusions and are reunited.

Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, INC.

FAITH COUNTY

By Mark Landon Smith

December 2, 3, 4 at 7:30 pm

December 4 at 3:00 pm

The audience will be transported to the Faith County Fairgrounds in Mineola, a town that is located "Somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the South" - a place where Beehive hairdos are still the rage and Saturday nights are reserved for the tractor pull in nearby Pickler. Complete with county fair fun for the audience . . . dunking booth, popcorn and cotton candy!

Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, INC.

A RAISIN IN THE SUN

By Lorraine Hansberry

February 10, 11, 12 at 7:30 pm

February 12 at 3:00 pm

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."--The New York Times

RENT

By Jonathan Larson

April 6, 7, 8, 9 at 7:30 pm

April 10 at 3:00 pm

The smash hit musical that changed Broadway forever!

Presented by special arrangement with Music Theatre International

MORE AUDITIONS!!

DSA Theatre Department Announces

AUDITIONS

For

FAITH COUNTY

by Mark Landon Smith

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the south, there's a place where the bee-hive hairdo is still the rage and Saturday nights are reserved for the tractor pull in nearby Pickler. A colorful collection of good ol' country folk gather 'round for this year's county fair, and there's stiff competition in the arts and crafts category. Faith County enjoyed a thirty-five week run on WLYX and was featured on the television special, "Dateline."

"Faith County is hilarious!" -- The Studio Theatre

OCTOBER 5TH & 6TH

from 4pm - 6pm

in the Black Box Theatre

This play is open to 7th, 8th and 9th graders

AUDITIONS!!

DSA Theatre Department announces

AUDITIONS

for

A FLEA IN HER EAR

by Georges Feydeau

September 7th and 8th

Sign-up for an audition time in the Black Box Theatre

This is a high school production