YOUTH PROGRAM 2011-2012

PERFORMANCE PAGE

All performances are held at the Bathhouse Theater:
7312 West Green Lake Dr. N, 98103.

All youth performances are always free and open to the public,
& donations to the scholarship fund are gratefully accepted!

Summer Performances

Join us all summer long for FREE performances by our youth ensemble (ages 11-18), and our alumni group, the Bathhouse Ensemble.

The Importance of Being Earnest

directed by Shana Bestock

Our 2013 Senior Show! This "trivial comedy for serious people" is one of Oscar Wilde's most popular plays, complete with farce, witty dialogue, glittering characters, satire of manners and a happy ending.

Performances:
Friday June 21, 7pm
Saturday June 22, 7pm
Sunday June 23, 2pm
Friday June 28, 7pm
Saturday June 29, 2pm & 7pm

Dracula

written by Steven Dietz; directed by Simon Irving
Produced by the Bathhouse Ensemble

The classic tale of the first vampire, as told in high melodramatic style; plenty of blood, drama, and life-threatening monsters for everyone.

Performances:
Friday July 5, 7pm
Saturday July 6, 2pm & 7pm
Sunday July 7, 2pm

Twelfth Night

directed by Shana Bestock

“If music be the food of love, play on!”

Yes, there’s a shipwreck, but the only magic in this play is the very human transformations of the delightful characters. Lovesick and lonely, they bumble around in the darkness of their dreams and desires until at last everyone - well, almost everyone - finds their heart’s desire.

Viola loves Orsino, who thinks he loves Olivia. Olivia thinks she cannot love at all, then thinks she loves Cesario who is really Viola, dressed as a man. Malvolio thinks he ought to be a gentleman, while the foolish Sir Andrew is one, but is no match for the Lady Olivia. Add in a mournful clown, a wily and witty maid, a swashbuckling brother, and you have a recipe for music, madness, mayhem, and merriment!

Performances:
Friday July 12, 7pm
Saturday July 13, 7pm
Sunday July 14, 2pm
Friday, July 19, 7pm
Saturday, July 20, 2pm & 7pm

Wildwood

directed by Kaya Wynn

Help! Prue’s little brother has been kidnapped by crows and flown into the Impassable
Wilderness! Join the rescue mission this summer in this youth performance based on the books by Colin Meloy.

Performances:
Friday July 26, 7pm
Saturday July 27, 2pm & 7pm
Sunday July 28, 2pm

The Government Inspector

directed by Shawn Belyea

Excuse me, are we discussing bribes? Because if we’re discussing bribes, I freely admit I rule in favor of whatever side offers me the biggest one, but I never take money, I always take it in farm animals and game.— Judge
A bribe is a bribe. — Mayor
Not if you eat it. — Judge
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Russia’s greatest comedy! When the locals in a small town learn that an undercover government inspector is coming for a surprise visit, an unfortunate case of mistaken identity sends the village spiraling into a world of panic and greed. Witty, smart and wildly satirical, The Government Inspector exposes the corruption of a provincial town with biting hilarity.

Performances:
Friday August 2, 7pm
Saturday August 3, 2pm & 7pm
Sunday August 4, 2pm

You Can't Take it With You

directed by Shana Bestock

Kaufman and Hart’s Pulitzer-Prize winning, delightfully wacky comedy brings families of opposite lifestyles together - with literally explosive results. Set in the Great Depression, the Sycamore family enjoys its eccentricities (including dancing, homemade fireworks, and discus-throwing) and doesn’t understand why their daughter, Alice, worries they might scare off her “normal” boyfriend, Tony. When the couple’s families meet over dinner, delightful answers emerge to the question “what is money - and life - for?”

Performances:
Friday August 9, 7pm
Saturday August 10, 7pm
Sunday August 11, 2pm
Friday August 16, 7pm
Saturday August 17, 2pm & 7pm

Tartuffe

directed by Maddie Gordon
produced by the Bathhouse Ensemble

Tartuffe is an oily con-man pretending to be overly virtuous. He has Lord Orgon in his grasp, but Orgon's family is resisting as best they all can -- from his long-suffering wife Elmire, to his engaged daughter Mariane who might just have to marry Tartuffe instead, to the witty maid Dorine. This classic French farce exposes Tartuffe, and our society, with hilarious results.

Performances:
Friday August 9, 10pm
Saturday August 10, 2pm
Sunday August 11, 7pm

The Comedy of Errors

directed by Emily Purington

Slapstick and mistaken identity meet crafty puns and sharp word play in this farce about two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated at birth. We’re uprooting this Shakespearean comedy from timeless Greece and bringing it across the ocean to Appalachia!

Performances:
Friday August 23, 7pm
Saturday August 24, 2pm & 7pm
Sunday August 25, 2pm

TICKETS:
Tickets for all youth productions are first-come, first serve at the door, available 1/2 hour before showtimes. Tickets are free, with a suggested donation to the scholarship fund. We rarely sell out completely, so you are usually assured of a ticket even if you come at the last minute, but it's always nice to arrive about 15 minutes early.

Able to give a little more?
Consider matching donations for a single performance, and double the opportunities for students!

Or, join our Education Leadership Circle to sponsor an entire show, and support the youth program's continued work. To find out more about the levels of sponsorship available, and how ELC sponsorship can help your business, click here: ELC Sponsorship Benefits.