Clubs/Activities - Drama
General Information
Address: 8560 26th Avenue, Kenosha, WI
Theatre Office Phone: 262-359-2163
Advisor: Mr. Nicolas Cicerale
Student Officers: Zac C. (President), Megan R. (Chairperson of Activities), Jensen W. (Chairperson of Fundraising), Raven S. (Chairperson of Theatre Maintenance), Amber S. (Chairperson of Public Relations), Josh P. (Technical Manager)
Directors: Mr. Nicolas Cicerale, Ms. Felicia Dominguez
Technical Director: Mr. Daniel Shimon
Acting Coach: Mrs. Pellegrina Pignone-DeBartolo
Music Director/Choreographer: Ms. Kristen Singer
Student Directors: Zac C., Sarah H., Alex W.
Performance Information
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
Performance Dates: November 12-15
Performance Times: 7:30 p.m. (November 12-14), 2:00 p.m. (November 15)
Location: Tremper Auditorium
Cost: $8.00 for students/seniors, $10.00 for adults
Synopsis: Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
Little Shop of Horrors, Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman, Music by Alan Menken
Performance Dates: January 21-24, 29-31
Performance Times: 7:30 p.m. (January 21-23, 29-30), 2:00 p.m. (January 24, 30-31)
Location: Tremper Auditorium
Cost: $8.00 for students/seniors, $10.00 for adults
Synopsis: A down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon "Audrey II" grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore who offers him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite, finally revealing itself to be an alien creature poised for global domination!
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Performance Dates: March 11-13, 18-19, 21
Performance Times: 7:30 p.m. (March 11-13, 18-19), 2:00 p.m. (March 21)
Location: Tremper Auditorium
Cost: $8.00 for students/seniors, $10.00 for adults
Synopsis: The story focuses upon a young farmer, his wife, and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife's arrest for witchcraft. The farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie—and it is here that the monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. The farmer, instead of saving his wife, finds himself also accused of witchcraft and ultimately condemned with a host of others.
Tartuffe by Moliere, trans. by Richard Wilbur
Performance Dates: May 21-23
Performance Times: 7:30 p.m. (May 21-23), 2:00 p.m. (May 23)
Location: Tremper Studio Theatre (Room 120)
Cost: $8.00 for students/seniors, $10.00 for adults
Synopsis: The story takes place in the home of the wealthy Orgon, where Tartuffe—a fraud and a pious imposter—has insinuated himself. He succeeds magnificently in winning the respect and devotion of the head of the house and then tries to marry his daughter and seduce his wife and scrounge the deed to the property. He nearly gets away with it, but an emissary from King Louis XIV arrives in time to recover the property, free Monsieur Orgon and haul Tartuffe off to jail. And so his duplicity is finally exposed and punished.
Student Directed Productions
Upon successful completion of Drama III, students are presented with the option of producing a work of their own. The students are in complete creative control of their productions, including design elements and casting.
At Home At the Zoo by Edward Albee
Student Director: Zac C.
Performance Dates: February 5-6, 12-13
Performance Times: 7:30 p.m. (February 5-6, 12-13)
Location: Tremper Studio Theatre (Room 120)
Cost: Free
Synopsis: At Home At the Zoo consists of two one-act plays, including Homelife (written in 2004), as a prequel to Edward Albee’s first play The Zoo Story (written in 1959). The story of The Zoo Story is about how a many who is consumed with loneliness starts up a conversation with another man on a bench in Central Park and eventually forces him to participate in an act of violence. Homelife occurs earlier on the same day, leading to the decision to visit Central Park. The plays deal with issues of human isolation, loneliness, class differences, and the dangers of inaction within American society.
