One-Act Play Festival • Clemson Players
When
Sunday, April 21, 2013Where
Bellamy Theatre at 3:00 pmTickets
$11 Adults / $6 StudentsClemson Players Series
Description
The Department of Performing Arts presents a one-act play festival by our most advanced majors.
The two plays in the festival will be "Hotel Cassiopeia" by Charles L. Mee and "For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls" by Christopher Durang
HOTEL CASSIOPEIA is a theatrical collage composed of elements from the artistic work of Joseph Cornell including ballerinas, clocks with no hands, an astronomer, an eccentric waitress, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, star maps, and other eclectic characters and themes. The story is set in a New York cafeteria and inside Joseph’s mind as he eavesdrops on the eccentric people around him, embellishes and fabricates their conversations, becomes lost in his own fantasies, and experiences vivid flashbacks. What does Joseph’s art say about love, longing, and loneliness? Is there value in art at all? How does one capture the ever-fleeting moments and everyday beauty before they pass and time runs out...and more importantly if always looking for these moments of beauty from afar does this constitute experiencing life to the fullest?
FOR WHOM THE SOUTHERN BELLE TOLLS twists the classic Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie into a fast-paced comedy. Amanda attempts to shove her over-sensitive, hypochondriac son named Lawrence onto a "feminine caller" from the warehouse where her other son, Tom, works. For anyone who has seen the famous Glass Menagerie, and even for those who have not, Durang's parody presents relatable parent-child tensions and ask the questions, when and can you leave your family behind?
LATECOMERS TO EVENTS IN BELLAMY THEATRE WILL NOT BE SEATED.
The two plays in the festival will be "Hotel Cassiopeia" by Charles L. Mee and "For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls" by Christopher Durang
HOTEL CASSIOPEIA is a theatrical collage composed of elements from the artistic work of Joseph Cornell including ballerinas, clocks with no hands, an astronomer, an eccentric waitress, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, star maps, and other eclectic characters and themes. The story is set in a New York cafeteria and inside Joseph’s mind as he eavesdrops on the eccentric people around him, embellishes and fabricates their conversations, becomes lost in his own fantasies, and experiences vivid flashbacks. What does Joseph’s art say about love, longing, and loneliness? Is there value in art at all? How does one capture the ever-fleeting moments and everyday beauty before they pass and time runs out...and more importantly if always looking for these moments of beauty from afar does this constitute experiencing life to the fullest?
FOR WHOM THE SOUTHERN BELLE TOLLS twists the classic Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie into a fast-paced comedy. Amanda attempts to shove her over-sensitive, hypochondriac son named Lawrence onto a "feminine caller" from the warehouse where her other son, Tom, works. For anyone who has seen the famous Glass Menagerie, and even for those who have not, Durang's parody presents relatable parent-child tensions and ask the questions, when and can you leave your family behind?
LATECOMERS TO EVENTS IN BELLAMY THEATRE WILL NOT BE SEATED.
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