2013-2014 Augsburg College Theater Season

House of Bernarda Alba
By Federico Garcia Lorca
Translation by Michael Kidd
Directed by Dario Tangelson
November 1-10, 2013
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater
A highly physical take on Lorca’s last play, The House of Bernarda Alba depicts the life of an affluent family in 1930′s Spain. Forced by Bernarda, the tyrannical matriarch, into a eight-year mourning period after the death of her husband, the Alba sisters see all of their dreams and deepest desires smothered by their despotic mother’s rule. Forced to never leave the house and cut off from the outside world the asphyxiating atmosphere drives the sisters against each other  in an inevitable path to tragedy.

INSIDE OUT
Directed by Rick Shiomi
November 18-20, 2011
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater
Stories by Asian American students at Augsburg. The stories reflect the views and experiences of Asian America students-- from family tensions to cultural stereotypes--performed through scenes, dance, and music. Inside Out is collaboration with Mu Performing Arts and Pan Asian Student Services.

365 Days/365 Plays
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Martha Johnson
February 3-12, 2012
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater
365 Days/365 Plays is a famous experiment in American theater born from this Pulitzer-prize winning playwright's commitment to write one play a day for a full year. This production will be an entertaining, thought-provoking, and imaginative assortment of these contemporary theater pieces.

A Mechanical Midsummer
An adaptation of Shakespeare's
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Student Directed by Kat Lutze
March 6-10, 2012
Foss Scene Shop
"Lord what fools these mortals be!" Join Puck and his fairy friends as they stumble upon a bunch of foolish mechanics rehearsing a play. Musical mayhem ensues as the trickster fairy uses his magic to interrupt their clownish play acting. Inspired by the original Midsummer, the cast and crew will create songs, music, and dance to stage a totally unique and fun-filled piece of theatre.

Titanic Orchestra
By Hristo Boytchev-Orlovski
Directed by Barbra Berlovitz
April 13-22, 2012
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater
A story of four vagabonds living at an abandoned little railway station, forgotten by God and people, where no train has stopped for a long time. Everything changes when a chest is thrown out of a passing train and a mysterious individual emerges from it. Titanic Orchestra is a perspicuous, bitter- funny, and very subtle diagnosis of the condition of the contemporary man.

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