2009-2010 Butler Theatre Season
The World Comes To Butler
Galileo
By Nic Young
Featuring acclaimed London actor, Tim Hardy, Fall 2009 Butler
Theatre Visiting Artist-in-Residence
September 8 and 9 at 7:00pm
Buried Treasures: Recovering German Heritage Through Poetry and
Music
Presented as part of the Jordan College of Fine Arts Mahler
Project
September 24 at 7:30 pm
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
By Bertolt Brecht
English Version by Eric Bentley
Directed by Owen Schaub
October 7, 8, 9 and 10 at 8 pm
October 10 and 11 at 2 pm
The Merchant of Venice
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tim Hardy, Visiting Artist-in-Residence
November 11, 12, 13 and 14 at 8 pm
November 14 and 15 at 2 pm
The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov
Translation by Paul Schmidt
Directed by Elaina Artemiev
February 24, 25, 26 and 27 at 8 pm
February 27 and 28 at 2 pm
Our Fourth Production
Directed by Bernardo Rey, Visiting Artist-in-Residence
April 14, 15, 16 and 17 at 8 pm
April 17 and 18 at 2 pm
This Season: The World Comes To Butler
How does the world "come" to us? In our media saturated lives
with nearly instantaneous electronic connection to others, other
places, and other ideas the world seems to be, literally, at our
fingertips. But how present are we as we participate in these
electronic interactions? Can we reach out and grasp? Can we inhale
and smell the environment? In the theatre, experiencing live
performance, we are fully present with the actors, with their
characters, with the created environment.
This Butler Theatre season the world comes to us from very
different places, times and circumstances. Yet these differences
will not seem foreign to us; not because we have "been" there by
cell phone, iPhone or via the web. Rather, through truly startling
theatre we become engaged with human beings whose lives and
experiences resonate for us. We are engaged because we are together
in the same place at the same moment. Differences and distances
fall away, even great spans of time become irrelevant. The world in
all its variety comes to our audiences this season: from the
Caucasus Mountains in the tenth century, from Elizabethan England,
from turn of the twentieth century Czarist Russia, from
contemporary Italy.
In addition to the four mainstage productions directed by the
faculty and visiting artists, the 2009-2010 Butler Theatre season
will again showcase work created by our senior undergraduate
theatre majors.