our
current season: 2004-2005
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| boy gets girl |
boy gets girl
By Rebecca Gilman
Directed by Michael Sokoloff
Sept. 10 – Oct. 3, 2004
(click here for performance schedule)
Boy meets girl. Boy likes girl. Boy gets dangerous. Part thriller,
part social commentary, University of Iowa alum Rebecca Gilman
has written an unflinching and unsentimental portrait of a
life irrevocably altered by a stalker. A Time Magazine #1
play of the year! Contains adult language.
Boy Gets Girl is supported in part by a grant from the Iowa
Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs,
with additional media support by KCCK.
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Cannonball:
Stand-up Comedy |
Cannonball:
Stand-up Comedy
Conceived and directed by Michael Sokoloff
Sept. 24 – 25, 2004
(click here for performance schedule)
It all starts with a spark – an idea, a movement, a
word – and then explodes into a bright new work. Don’t
shield your eyes. Step into the dark and experience the late-night
theatre series, Cannonball, where the September production
features a variety of stand-up comics.
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Walking the Wire;
Monologues at Riverside |
Walking the Wire: Monologues at Riverside
Coordinated by Michael Sokoloff
Featuring Blue Yonder, by Kate Aspengren – a collection
of monologues for women.
Oct. 15 – 17, 2004
(click here for performance schedule)
One actor, alone in the spotlight, sharing a time, a place,
an emotion with you. Just a few breaths later and the experience
may be over too soon, but another actor steps in to take you
somewhere new. In this sixth season, Walking the Wire features
Blue Yonder, a collection of monologues for women by Iowa
City’s own Kate Aspengren.
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| Still Life With
Iris |
Still Life With Iris
By Steven Dietz
Directed by Kristin Horton
Nov. 12 – 28, 2004
An adventure drama for the whole family!
Iris lives with her mom in the mystical land of Nocturno,
where workers make, by night, all the things seen in the
world by day, and where memories live in magic coats. When
Iris has her coat taken away, she loses both her memory
and her way home. Will she escape the Island of the Great
Goods? What will she find in the Tunnel of the UnWanted?
Come with Iris as she searches for the simplest of things:
home.
This fantastical adventure is a
must-see for all ages.
Media sponsorship of Still Life
With Iris is provided by 104.5 KDAT.
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| Small
Miracles
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Small Miracles
Written and performed by Ron Clark
Dec. 11 – 12, 2004
Now a Riverside Theatre holiday tradition, this moving and
personal tribute to Christmas past adds the glow of memory
to the special radiance of the holiday season. From his
unforgettable role as a department store Santa to the 10-cent
bell that becomes a family heirloom, Ron Clark will mesmerize
you and bring to mind your own unique holiday memories.
Appropriate for ages 10 and up.
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The Drawer Boy
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The Drawer Boy
By Michael Healey
Directed by Kristin Horton
Jan. 21 – Feb. 13, 2005
The workday lives of two Canadian bachelor farmers are comically
disrupted when a young actor arrives to work with them as
"research" for a play about country life. As this
young boy becomes a part of their lives, he stumbles upon
their mysterious secret and their lives are forever altered.
Hilarity and heartbreak mix in this award-winning play about
the power of art to help us remember what's important.
Media sponsorship for The Drawer Boy provided by KXIC and
100.7 The Fox.
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| Cannonball:
Aggravated Assault |
Cannonball: Aggravated Assault
Conceived and directed by Michael Sokoloff
March 4 – 5, 2005
It all starts with
a spark – an idea, a movement, a word – and
then explodes into a bright new work. Don’t shield
your eyes. Step into the dark and experience the late-night
theatre series, Cannonball, where the March production features
a new work performed by Michael Sokoloff’s Aggravated
Assault Ensemble.
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| Big
Love |
Big Love
By Charles Mee
Directed by Mark Hunter
March 24 – April 10, 2005
Charles Mee’s
explosive update of The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus is
as much vaudeville as tragicomedy. 50 sisters forced to
marry 50 cousins make a pact to kill their grooms –
but what happens when love gets in the way? Big Love draws
on almost every kind of theatrical performance to tell the
story of some feisty women and the men who think they own
them. Sizzling dialogue, slapstick, soaring poetry, pop
songs, suspense – all these and more paint a startling
picture of the relations of men and women and the nature
of love in our time. A co-production with Cornell College.
Contains brief nudity and unmitigated theatricality.
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Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival
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Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival
Mark Hunter and Kristin
Horton direct this sixth season of classic works
at the Riverside Festival Stage, lower City Park, Iowa City
Productions will be announced late in 2004
Tickets go on sale February 14, 2005
June 17 – July 10, 2005
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