Proof, by David Auburn
October 3-6 (Family Weekend)
8:00 PM Oct 3-5
2:00 PM Oct 6
Cobb Theatre, R-MC Center for the Performing Arts
(Drama) On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit?
Directed by Elizabeth Jean, ‘13, a reprise of her summer 2012 Shapiro Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) project
Scenic & Lighting Design by Kristian Spencer, '14, a reprise of his summer 2012 Shapiro Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) project
Box Office begins taking reservations by phone mail at (804) 752-7316 beginning at 10:00 AM September 24. Tickets are $5 per person, free to members of the R-MC faculty, staff, and student body.
The Physicists by Friedrich Durrenmatt
November 14-17 8:00 PM
Cobb Theatre, R-MC Center for the Performing Arts
(Satirical Drama)The scene is a madhouse and the focus is on three inmates who are nuclear physicists. They appear to be nice, likeable lunatics, but nothing is as simple as it seems. Are they really mad? Or are they playing some murderous game, with the future safety of the world at stake? On the road to moral chaos, each has been driven to ignore the truth, the purity of science, and any sense of personal responsibility. The asylum seems saner than the mad world they've left behind, but brooding over all is the director of the sanatorium, a psychiatrist, who has her own agenda.
Directed by Elizabeth Jean, ‘13, as her senior project in Drama
Scenic Design by Leigh Bartlett
Lighting Design by Gregg Hillmar
Box Office begins taking reservations by phone mail at (804) 752-7316 beginning at 10:00 AM November 5. Tickets are $5 per person, free to members of the R-MC faculty, staff, and student body.
“A Christmas Carol” adapted by Marilyn Mattys
December 7-13
7:30 PM Dec 7, 10-13
2:00 PM Dec 8, 9
Cobb Theatre, R-MC Center for the Performing Arts
(Traditional)This perennial family favorite returns to begin the holiday season, as do our audiences, who come to see favorite characters and hear favorite passages—and to see what new small threads have been woven into the fabric of this beloved classic tale, including selected new set pieces. Audiences are encouraged to book as soon as the Box Office opens for this show.
Directed by Joe Mattys
Scenic & Lighting Design by Gregg HIllmar
Box Office begins taking reservations by phone mail at (804) 752-7316 beginning at 10:00 AM November 26. Tickets are $2.50 per person, $1 for children 12 and under, and free to members of the R-MC faculty, staff, and student body.
The Matter of Martin, by Devon Mattys
February 20-23, 8:00 PM
Cobb Theatre, R-MC Center for the Performing Arts
(Drama) In The Matter of Martin, two siblings struggle to accept each other and themselves at their father’s deathbed. Martin, a female-to-male transsexual, has not been back to his Kansas hometown since leaving it to pursue life as a gay man in New York. His older brother Jeff is the child who stayed behind, desperate to make things right for his parents after the breakup of their family, yet unable to fill the void left by his sister. Estranged for eleven years, Jeff and Martin must reunite and face the pasts they thought were behind them. At its heart, the play is about family, the inviolable bond of blood, and the devastation of never mentioning the things that matter most. For mature audiences only: graphic language and adult situations.
Directed by: Keri Wormald, a Payne Visiting Artist Guest Director
Scenic Design by Gregg Hillmar
Lighting Design by Kristian Spencer
Box Office begins taking reservations by phone mail at (804) 752-7316 beginning at 10:00 AM February 11. Tickets are $5 per person, free to members of the R-MC faculty, staff, and student body.
Lettice and Lovage, by Peter Shaffer
May 1-4, 8:00 PM
Cobb Theatre, R-MC Center for the Performing Arts
(Comedy)Lettice Duffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is an indefatigable but daffy enthusiast of history and the theatre. As a tour guide at Fustian House, one of the least stately of London's stately homes, she theatrically embellishes its historical past, ultimately coming up on the radar of Lotte Schon, an inspector from the Preservation Trust. Neither impressed or entertained by Lettice's freewheeling history lessons, Schon fires her. Not one however, to go without a fight, Lettice engages the stoic, conventional Lotte in battle to the death of all that is sacred to the Empire and the crown.
Directed by Michelle Nieporte as her senior project in Drama
Scenic Design by Gregg Hillmar
Lighting Design TBA
Box Office begins taking reservations by phone mail at (804) 752-7316 beginning at 10:00 AM April 22. Tickets are $5 per person, free to members of the R-MC faculty, staff, and student body.