ASU Dept. of Theatre Arkansas State University
  2004 - 2005 Season  
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestby Dale Wasserman
adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey

October 8,9,12,13 @ 7:30

This comedy-drama is the engaging story of a power struggle between a charming rogue patient and the disciplined orderly head nurse in a mental institution in the 1960s.  This particular institution is filled with a cast of colorful characters who are delightfully sympathetic yet suffer from real emotional distress, causing laughter and tears at the same time.

CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE AND SUBJECT MATTER
                           

       
    directed by : John O'Connell  
       
       

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

by Alan Ball
November 12,13,16,17 @ 7:30

Five reluctant and badly dressed bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with their own reason for avoiding the festivities below.  In the midst of wedding bells and clouds of tulle, five bridesmaids share their thoughts and experiences, laughs and tears, as one summer afternoon forces them to re/deconstruct for the nineties the same old question, "What do Women Want?

CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE & SUBJECT MATTER

       
    directed by : Stacy Alley  
       
       

Crimes of the Heart

by Beth Henley
February 25,26, March 1,2 @ 7:30
This Pulitzer prize winning play reunites three sisters in a small Mississippi town as they await the outcome of their ailing grandfather.  Running the gamut from comedy to tragedy, the story is so touching and hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.

CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE AND SUBJECT MATTER

       
    directed by : Molly Simpson  
       
       
Anything GoesMusic & Lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Guy Bolton & P.G. Wodehouse

April 15,16, 19,20 @ 7:30

An American Musical classic of the great music of Cole Porter.  Join us on the "Ocean Greyhound" luxury liner bound for England in 1930 for madcap cops and robbers, tap dancing and young lovers destined to find true love.  Whether they are singing It's De-Lovely, I Get a Kick Out of You, Blow Gabriel Blow or tap dancing to Anything Goes, this fun filled crew will keep you tapping in your seat.

       
    directed by : John O'Connell  
       
       




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