Watch on the Rhine
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Terry Averill
Performance dates: February 27 - March 21, 2015
The first in our American Standard series, this play takes place in America in 1940, before Pearl Harbor drew America into World War II. Sara, daughter of a privileged family, has returned home after 20 years away. She had married a German citizen and was raising her three children in Europe as he had become intensely involved in the anti-fascist efforts in Germany opposing the rise of Hitler. They have returned to her home for safety and rest, but he will need to return to Germany to continue his dangerous underground work. He is recognized by a houseguest of the family, and the violent outcome of that discovery shocks the sheltered American family out of their ignorance, bringing home the struggle that is going on in Europe.
Content Warning: During performances of Watch on the Rhine, actors smoke non-tobacco herbal products on stage.
Buy TicketsWorkshop: Stage Management & Stage Crew
The Colonial Players is offering several performance and technical workshops to be conducted throughout the 2014-2015 season. All workshops will take place on Saturdays and will be held either at The Colonial Players Annex or Theater. Workshop topics include: Voice and Diction, Lighting, Costuming, Musical Theatre, and Stage management. Current members of The Colonial Players can email the Education Director at education@thecolonialplayers.org for access to special membership pricing for these workshops.
Stage Management & Stage Crew
This workshop includes everything from the first production meeting to set strike: addressing the relationship with the director and production staff, questions to ask during rehearsal, creating props lists and a props table, determining personal props, choreographing set changes and quick costume changes, calling cues vs. panic buttons, tech booth issues, guns and other dangerous and/or valuable props, logistics of a musical vs. a non-musical show. This workshop will be held at The Colonial Players Theater at 108 East Street, Annapolis, MD, 21401. The workshop will run from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 7, 2015, with a working lunch provided by The Colonial Players. The cost of this workshop is $35.00. A discounted cost of $20.00 is available for current members of The Colonial Players. Registration is available through the Box Office at tickets.thecolonialplayers.org. Please email education@thecolonialplayers.org for access to membership pricing.
Directors' Round Table: Script Analysis with Lois Evans
The Directors' Round Table Series is designed as a forum where directors with all levels of experience (well-seasoned to novice or prospective) can meet in a less-formal setting to share their insight and suggestions. Each event will be held in a more social setting near the theatre and will have a specific theme and facilitator. These events are free, however, we ask that you register for these sessions so that we can have an approximate number of attendees for each.
The themes include: Script Analysis (Forming a vision); Working with Your Design Team; Running an Audition; Working with Your Actors (the rehearsal process); and Taking the Hell Out of Hell Week.
Buy TicketsPlaywrights' Lab Series
The Playwrights’ Lab Series is for playwrights interested in exploring the principles and theories of effective playwriting, listening to each other’s work for discussion and constructive feedback, and then using this to further develop their own work. There will be five sessions in the series, starting at 7 p.m. on alternate Tuesdays, beginning on March 31, 2015 and ending on May 26, 2015. Registration for the whole series is $10 for non-members and free for members (although you still need to register to guarantee your space). Please email education@thecolonialplayers.org for the membership rate. All sessions will be in the Green Room of the theater at 108 East Street.Session | Date and Time |
Themes & Purpose | March 31, 7 PM |
Character Development & Revelation | April 14, 7 PM |
Scene Construction | April 28, 7 PM |
Storytelling & Dramatic Arcs | May 12, 7 PM |
Movement & Dialogue | May 26, 7 PM |
Ernest in Love
Book and Lyrics by Anne Crosswell
Music by Lee Pockriss
Directed by Rick Wade
Performance dates: April 17 - May 16, 2015
Some consider Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest the funniest play written in English. CP seeks to capture all its wit and piquant satire in this musical version. The story is of the courtship of two affluent young ladies, Gwendolyn Fairfax and Cecily Cardew, by the young self-indulgent gentlemen, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Each man has been slightly dishonest in order to get what he wants, and the struggle against major challenges: the formidable Lady Bracknell, Cecily's mother, and the truth itself. When all is revealed to everybody, even Jack, it leads to an unexpected happy ending and three weddings!
Buy TicketsWhy Torture is Wrong, and the People who Love Them
Written by Christopher Durang
Directed by Kristofer Kauff
Performance dates: June 5 - 20, 2015
As Wilde skewered his privileged contemporaries in 1895, Christopher Durang also takes on several disturbing elements of our own culture and our current state of homeland insecurity. This pungently funny comedy bears all the hallmarks of Durang's style: hilarious non-sequitur-loaded dialogue, characters atilt with their own predilections, and the sense that you somehow wandered into the wrong play and can't quite understand all that is happening and whether you should be laughing or outraged. But you can count on this: the play is funny, whether dealing with a passionate butterfly collector who cherishes lots and lots of powerful specimens, an inept secret agent who can't stop making noises like cartoon characters, or a woman who marries, under the influence, an Irish terrorist named Zamir.
Content Warning: This play contains violence, mature themes, and language.
Buy TicketsWatch on the Rhine
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Terry Averill
Performance dates: February 27 - March 21, 2015
The first in our American Standard series, this play takes place in America in 1940, before Pearl Harbor drew America into World War II. Sara, daughter of a privileged family, has returned home after 20 years away. She had married a German citizen and was raising her three children in Europe as he had become intensely involved in the anti-fascist efforts in Germany opposing the rise of Hitler. They have returned to her home for safety and rest, but he will need to return to Germany to continue his dangerous underground work. He is recognized by a houseguest of the family, and the violent outcome of that discovery shocks the sheltered American family out of their ignorance, bringing home the struggle that is going on in Europe.
Content Warning: During performances of Watch on the Rhine, actors smoke non-tobacco herbal products on stage.
Watch on the Rhine
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Terry Averill
Performance dates: February 27 - March 21, 2015
The first in our American Standard series, this play takes place in America in 1940, before Pearl Harbor drew America into World War II. Sara, daughter of a privileged family, has returned home after 20 years away. She had married a German citizen and was raising her three children in Europe as he had become intensely involved in the anti-fascist efforts in Germany opposing the rise of Hitler. They have returned to her home for safety and rest, but he will need to return to Germany to continue his dangerous underground work. He is recognized by a houseguest of the family, and the violent outcome of that discovery shocks the sheltered American family out of their ignorance, bringing home the struggle that is going on in Europe.
Content Warning: During performances of Watch on the Rhine, actors smoke non-tobacco herbal products on stage.
Workshop: Stage Management & Stage Crew
The Colonial Players is offering several performance and technical workshops to be conducted throughout the 2014-2015 season. All workshops will take place on Saturdays and will be held either at The Colonial Players Annex or Theater. Workshop topics include: Voice and Diction, Lighting, Costuming, Musical Theatre, and Stage management. Current members of The Colonial Players can email the Education Director at education@thecolonialplayers.org for access to special membership pricing for these workshops.
Stage Management & Stage Crew
This workshop includes everything from the first production meeting to set strike: addressing the relationship with the director and production staff, questions to ask during rehearsal, creating props lists and a props table, determining personal props, choreographing set changes and quick costume changes, calling cues vs. panic buttons, tech booth issues, guns and other dangerous and/or valuable props, logistics of a musical vs. a non-musical show. This workshop will be held at The Colonial Players Theater at 108 East Street, Annapolis, MD, 21401. The workshop will run from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 7, 2015, with a working lunch provided by The Colonial Players. The cost of this workshop is $35.00. A discounted cost of $20.00 is available for current members of The Colonial Players. Registration is available through the Box Office at tickets.thecolonialplayers.org. Please email education@thecolonialplayers.org for access to membership pricing.
Watch on the Rhine
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Terry Averill
Performance dates: February 27 - March 21, 2015
The first in our American Standard series, this play takes place in America in 1940, before Pearl Harbor drew America into World War II. Sara, daughter of a privileged family, has returned home after 20 years away. She had married a German citizen and was raising her three children in Europe as he had become intensely involved in the anti-fascist efforts in Germany opposing the rise of Hitler. They have returned to her home for safety and rest, but he will need to return to Germany to continue his dangerous underground work. He is recognized by a houseguest of the family, and the violent outcome of that discovery shocks the sheltered American family out of their ignorance, bringing home the struggle that is going on in Europe.
Content Warning: During performances of Watch on the Rhine, actors smoke non-tobacco herbal products on stage.
Watch on the Rhine
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Terry Averill
Performance dates: February 27 - March 21, 2015
The first in our American Standard series, this play takes place in America in 1940, before Pearl Harbor drew America into World War II. Sara, daughter of a privileged family, has returned home after 20 years away. She had married a German citizen and was raising her three children in Europe as he had become intensely involved in the anti-fascist efforts in Germany opposing the rise of Hitler. They have returned to her home for safety and rest, but he will need to return to Germany to continue his dangerous underground work. He is recognized by a houseguest of the family, and the violent outcome of that discovery shocks the sheltered American family out of their ignorance, bringing home the struggle that is going on in Europe.
Content Warning: During performances of Watch on the Rhine, actors smoke non-tobacco herbal products on stage.
Watch on the Rhine
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Terry Averill
Performance dates: February 27 - March 21, 2015
The first in our American Standard series, this play takes place in America in 1940, before Pearl Harbor drew America into World War II. Sara, daughter of a privileged family, has returned home after 20 years away. She had married a German citizen and was raising her three children in Europe as he had become intensely involved in the anti-fascist efforts in Germany opposing the rise of Hitler. They have returned to her home for safety and rest, but he will need to return to Germany to continue his dangerous underground work. He is recognized by a houseguest of the family, and the violent outcome of that discovery shocks the sheltered American family out of their ignorance, bringing home the struggle that is going on in Europe.
Content Warning: During performances of Watch on the Rhine, actors smoke non-tobacco herbal products on stage.
Watch on the Rhine
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Terry Averill
Performance dates: February 27 - March 21, 2015
The first in our American Standard series, this play takes place in America in 1940, before Pearl Harbor drew America into World War II. Sara, daughter of a privileged family, has returned home after 20 years away. She had married a German citizen and was raising her three children in Europe as he had become intensely involved in the anti-fascist efforts in Germany opposing the rise of Hitler. They have returned to her home for safety and rest, but he will need to return to Germany to continue his dangerous underground work. He is recognized by a houseguest of the family, and the violent outcome of that discovery shocks the sheltered American family out of their ignorance, bringing home the struggle that is going on in Europe.
Content Warning: During performances of Watch on the Rhine, actors smoke non-tobacco herbal products on stage.
Watch on the Rhine
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Terry Averill
Performance dates: February 27 - March 21, 2015
The first in our American Standard series, this play takes place in America in 1940, before Pearl Harbor drew America into World War II. Sara, daughter of a privileged family, has returned home after 20 years away. She had married a German citizen and was raising her three children in Europe as he had become intensely involved in the anti-fascist efforts in Germany opposing the rise of Hitler. They have returned to her home for safety and rest, but he will need to return to Germany to continue his dangerous underground work. He is recognized by a houseguest of the family, and the violent outcome of that discovery shocks the sheltered American family out of their ignorance, bringing home the struggle that is going on in Europe.
Content Warning: During performances of Watch on the Rhine, actors smoke non-tobacco herbal products on stage.
Watch on the Rhine
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Terry Averill
Performance dates: February 27 - March 21, 2015
The first in our American Standard series, this play takes place in America in 1940, before Pearl Harbor drew America into World War II. Sara, daughter of a privileged family, has returned home after 20 years away. She had married a German citizen and was raising her three children in Europe as he had become intensely involved in the anti-fascist efforts in Germany opposing the rise of Hitler. They have returned to her home for safety and rest, but he will need to return to Germany to continue his dangerous underground work. He is recognized by a houseguest of the family, and the violent outcome of that discovery shocks the sheltered American family out of their ignorance, bringing home the struggle that is going on in Europe.
Content Warning: During performances of Watch on the Rhine, actors smoke non-tobacco herbal products on stage.
Watch on the Rhine
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Terry Averill
Performance dates: February 27 - March 21, 2015
The first in our American Standard series, this play takes place in America in 1940, before Pearl Harbor drew America into World War II. Sara, daughter of a privileged family, has returned home after 20 years away. She had married a German citizen and was raising her three children in Europe as he had become intensely involved in the anti-fascist efforts in Germany opposing the rise of Hitler. They have returned to her home for safety and rest, but he will need to return to Germany to continue his dangerous underground work. He is recognized by a houseguest of the family, and the violent outcome of that discovery shocks the sheltered American family out of their ignorance, bringing home the struggle that is going on in Europe.
Content Warning: During performances of Watch on the Rhine, actors smoke non-tobacco herbal products on stage.