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Ticket and Location Information
The Learned Ladies and The Living Newspaper Project tickets are $10 general public; $8 ACTC
faculty, staff, and students; $2 Augsburg students and children under age 12.
Belle Reprieve tickets are $6 general public; $4 ACTC faculty, staff, and students; $2 Augsburg
students.
Anything Goes tickets are $12 general public; $10 ACTC faculty, staff, and students; $4
Augsburg students.
An Evening of Student-Directed Works tickets are $4 general public; $2 ACTC ACTC faculty, staff,
and students; $1 Augsburg students and children under age 12.
Theatre Artist Series and recital events are free.
Ticket reservations can be made beginning two weeks prior to opening nights. For information
additional information, call 612 330-1257. To make a reservation, e-mail you ticket request to
boxoffice@augsburg.edu.
All events take place in the Tjornhom-Nelson Theater in Foss Center (unless otherwise
indicated) at Augsburg College, 22nd and Riverside Avenues, Minneapolis.
Augsburg’s location in a major theatre city promotes connections among our students, professional artists,
and local theatre companies. Theatre students grow through the liberal arts-based curriculum, production
work, and the Theatre Artist Series. Performing Arts Scholarships worth $3,000 per year recognize incoming
students demonstrating excellence in and commitment to the performing arts.
The Learned Ladies
By Molière
Translation by Richard Wilbur
Directed by Martha Johnson
November 5–14
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater
The great comic genius Molière wrote The Learned
Ladies in 1672, a year before his death, and it is
considered one of his mature masterpieces. In this
play a family is thrown into disarray when the mother
becomes fixated on an intellectual charlatan. The play
evolves into a hilarious portrayal of the intellectual
perversions sometimes seen in the world of academia
(and elsewhere), when genuine quest for knowledge
becomes replaced by pseudo-intellectuality,
pretention, inflated self-importance, and powermongering.
“This sophisticated satire sparkles with
wit, ridicules hypocrisy, and . . . reveals that human
folly has not diminished during the past three hundred
years.”
The Living
Newspaper Project
Directed by Sarah Myers
February 4–13
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater
Inspired by the original Living Newspapers of the
Federal Theater Project in the 1930s, this
student-devised performance will use a range of
nonfiction sources to explore a current social
issue. Ensemble members will gather interviews,
articles, and multimedia—and generate their
own writing—to create and stage a totally unique
piece of socially conscious theatre.
Belle Reprieve
By Bette Bourne, Paul Shaw, Peggy Shaw, and
Lois Weaver
Directed by David DeBlieck
March 8–11
Foss Studio
Created in collaboration by the members of two
queer performance companies, Belle Reprieve is a
cross-dressing, farcical romp that re-visions
Tennesee Williams’ characters from A Streetcar
Named Desire: Mitch (a fairy disguised as a man),
Stella (a woman disguised as a woman), Stanley (a
butch lesbian) and Blanche (a man in a dress).
Using the famous film version of the play as a
launch pad and cabaret music as a theatrical
mouthpiece, the play examines sexual politics and
gender performance in American life and theater.
Anything Goes
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse
Directed by Randy Winkler
Musical Direction by Sonja Thompson
April 8–17
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater
All aboard for Anything Goes; a tap-dancing filled
show, which features some of Cole Porter's best
music! On an ocean liner bound from New York to
London, stowaway Billy Crocker woos heiress Hope
Harcourt. He is assisted in his quest for love by
nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Public Enemy
#13, Moonface Martin. "Anything Goes", "You're the
Top", "Friendship", and "I Get a Kick Out of You" are
just some of the songs that are featured in this
classic, fun-filled family entertainment

An Evening of Student Directed Pieces
November 19–21
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater
This evening of short, student-directed
plays takes on topics from the Hollywood
film industry, to violence in the Middle
East, to the nature of human connection.
Through absurd and poetic language,
these stylistically diverse plays
experiment with the very notion of
theatricality.
S T U D E N T D I R E C T E D W O R K S
Business Lunch in the Russian Tea Room
By Christopher Durang
Directed by Eric Dobratz
Rough for Theatre I
By Samuel Beckett
Directed by Taylor Kaiser-Gajeski
One Short Sleepe
By Naomi Wallace
Directed by Josh Lyons