LAKESIDE COMMUNITY THEATRE 2010 - 2011 SEASON All dates are subject to change. True West by Sam Shepard August 6-28, 2010 Recently revived at New York’s Circle in the Square, where Seymour Hoffman & John C. Reily alternated playing the role of the brothers, this American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Sal Kimmer when Lee, a demented petty thief, drops in. He pitches his own idea for a movie to Kimmer, who then wants Austin to junk his bleak, modern love story and write Lee’s trashy Western tale. FEAR FACTORY HAUNTED HOUSE Returns to LCT! October 2010 Are you brave enough to face your fears this year at LCT’s Haunted House? LCT turns the entire Lakeside Arts Center into a terrifying experience for ages 10 and up. We scared over a thousand innocent victims last year, and this year plan on some new scares and horrors! Come join us as we create the Scariest Fear Factory Insanitarium to date! Want to volunteer for Fear Factory? There are many ways to get involved in this event… we have volunteer opportunities such as scare actors, builders, publicity and makeup artists. Email us at: volunteers@lctthecolony.org to learn more about this fantastic experience that you won’t ever forget! Christmas Break December 3- 18, 2010 by Cynthia Crenshaw Lakeside Community Theatre is proud to bring you the winner of our 1st annual playwriting contest! For the past two years we’ve produced plays written by local playwrights in our December show slot, and this season’s no different. Christmas Break is a three act play about students who have to remain, or choose to remain on their university campus during the Christmas break between Fall and Spring semesters. The comedy is a light hearted look at the individual students dealing with each one's unique situations. Cultural differences, life changing decisions, homesickness, loneliness, boredom, and the holiday of Christmas itself present challenges that each student must deal with. It takes an unflappable and optimistic dorm mother, Mrs. Fulton, to put the best possible face on things, including trying to create a traditional Christmas for the exchange students' first experience with the holiday. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams February 18-March 5, 2011 Amanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility that lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura. Amanda strives to give meaning and direction to her life and the lives of her children, though her methods are ineffective and irritating. Tom is driven nearly to distraction by his mother’s nagging and seeks escape in alcohol and the world of the movies. Laura also lives in her illusion. She is crippled and this defect, intensified by her mother’s anxiety to see her married, has driven her more and more into herself. The crux of the action comes when Tom invites a young man of his acquaintance to take dinner with the family. Jim, the caller, is a nice ordinary fellow who is at once pounced upon by Amanda as a possible husband for Laura. In spite of her crude and obvious efforts to entrap the young man, he and Laura manage to get along very nicely, and momentarily Laura is lifted out of herself into a new world. But this crashes when toward the end; Jim explains that he is already engaged. The world of illusion that Amanda and Laura have striven to create in order to make life bearable collapses about them Tom, too, at the end of his tether at last leaves home. Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling April 15- May 7, 2011 The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” have come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town’s rich curmudgeon Ouiser, (“I’m not crazy, I’ve just been in a bad mood for forty years”), an eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth, and the local social leader, M’Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby (the prettiest girl in town), is about to marry a “good ole boy”. Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength- and love- which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Sponsored by Kids Count Too June 10-18th 2011 Who wouldn’t want to join Charlie Bucket in his adventurous tour of Willy Wonka’s world- famous Chocolate Factory? Now is your chance! Your audience will see Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt, Grandpa George, Grandma Georgina, Willy Wonka and Charlie himself come to life, and all involved will discover the true meaning of teamwork, self- confidence & self-esteem. Each member of your cast will have a role that promotes a special understanding of other people as, together, they and your audience experience a chocolate- candy fantasy. The entire production is smoothly tied together by an energetic and personable Narrator, who effortlessly bridges time and excites the audience with creative anticipation. The delicious fun of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory awaits you! |
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