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The Theatre Program's official performance company, the
Playmakers is one of the oldest campus organizations at the
University. Mounting a season of 4 full faculty-directed productions
per year (one of which is presented by Alpha Psi Omega), the company
is dedicated to providing laboratory opportunities for student
actors, technicians, and dramaturgs that embrace a wide range of
styles, historical periods, and points-of-view. One production per
year is a theatre piece for young audiences performed as a benefit
for local Atlanta children's charities, and roughly every 2 years
the spring mainstage production is a musical.
In recent years, productions have included classics such as
Euripides' Iphegenia at Aulis, Goldsmith's She Stoops to
Conquor, and Molière's The Learned Ladies, as well as
contemporary works such as Federico García Lorca's The House of
Bernarda Alba, Martin Sherman's A Madhouse in Goa, and
Michael Frayn's Noises Off. The 2001-02 Season features a
focus on Oscar Wilde with works such as Moisés Kaufman's Gross
Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (see
the pictures of the play by Tom Namey) and Pockris & Criswell's
Ernest in Love, a musical adaptation of Wilde's
The Importance of Being Earnest.
Auditions are open to all students, as well as to faculty and staff,
and are held periodically throughout the school year as needed. The
program also holds an annual open workshop during Orientation to get
to know incoming students interested in participating with the
Playmakers.
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