South High Theater Spring 2010 Presents

 
 
Our Town – March 10 preview, 11, 12, 13, 2010 - Mainstage directed by Ellen Fenster, Director of South High Theater
Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. The play is set in the fictional community of Grover's Corners, modeled upon several New Hampshire towns in the Mount Monadnock region: Jaffrey, Peterborough, Dublin, and others. Using theatrical devices, Wilder sets the play in a 1930s theater. He uses the actions of the Stage Manager to create the town of Grover's Corners for the audience. Scenes from its history between the years of 1901 and 1913 play out. The Curtain is 7:00pm, except previews 6:30pm
 
Private Lives – May 3 preview, 4, 5, 6, 7, 2010 – Mainstage, directed by Nick Day, South High senior
Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners by Noël Coward. It focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are honeymooning with their new spouses in the same hotel.  The play contains one of Coward's most popular songs, "Some Day I'll Find You". The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, ranks it among Coward's ten most performed songs. The Curtain is 7:00pm, except previews 6:30pm 

Of Mice and Men- May 17 preview, 18, 19, 20, 21, 2010 – Studio Theater, directed by Sam Humleker, South High senior
Based on the book Of Mice and Men is a play written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California.  It is a story of friendship, dreams, and rabbits. The title is taken from Robert Burns's poem, To a Mouse, which read: "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley." The Curtain is 7:00pm, except previews 6:30pm
 
ONE ACTS – May 25 & 26 – Mainstage