Fine Arts department announces 2010-2011 shows
The Franklin College Fine Arts department will perform four theatre shows during the 2010-11 academic school year.
All performances will be in Thèâtre Margot in the Johnson Center for Fine Arts.
The season will open with "The Philadelphia Story" Oct. 6 through Oct. 10. The American comedy was the basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Katharine Hepburn. A war of words unfolds as two men try to help haughty, divorced socialite Tracey Lord uncover her heart beneath her holier-than-thou exterior.
In November, students will become the directors and performers during "A Festival of Short Plays." The shows begin Nov. 17 and conclude Nov. 21.
"Gypsy" will be performed March 16 through March 20. The play is based on the memoirs of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. It tells the story of a mother, Rose, who pushes her daughters into the show business to fulfill her own dreams.
The final performance will be "Dead Man’s Cell Phone" May 4 through May 8. As a wildly imaginative new comedy, it explores how we memorialize the dead and how that changes us as one woman confronts her own assumptions about mortality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
General admission is $12. Admission is $8 for students and seniors (55 and older). Franklin College students, faculty and staff are admitted free with a valid Franklin College ID.
Tickets may be reserved by calling (317) 738-8029 or online at www.franklincollege.edu/TheatreTickets.
