Ouachita’s theatre arts department provides the students with practical experience which is enhanced by classroom instruction. Through rehearsals and performance, students engage in the collaborative process and continue to develop their skills under faculty direction. Students interested in directing find opportunities to direct with faculty support and guidance. Design/tech students develop strong skills in the design/technical process in of each production. The committed faculty help students enhance their talents and prepare for their career goal.
Ouachita’s theatre mounts three main stage dramatic productions each academic year and an annual musical theatre production. An evening of one-acts, produced in the Fall semester, affords the senior level theatre majors an opportunity to direct under the supervision and guidance of our faculty. In the Spring we have a ten-minute play festival with plays written, produced and directed by students.
2012-2013 SEASON INFO
The Crane Wife – A Children’s Folktale from Japan
Adapted by Barbara Carlisle
Directed by Daniel Inouye
September 20-25
7:00 pm evenings and 2:30 pm Sunday matinee
Verser Theatre
Tickets $6
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Machinal
by Sophie Treadwell
Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars.
Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Ruth Snyder, who with her lover, Judd Gray, had murdered her husband and gone to the electric chair.
Out of this came MACHINAL, a powerful expressionist drama about the dependent status of women and the living hell of a loveless marriage.
Directed by Shelby Hibbs
October 25- October 30
Verser Theatre
7:30 pm evenings and 2:30 pm Sunday matinee
Price $8
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Harrison, Texas
A Series of One Act Plays by Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote, Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009 )
An American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his screenplays for the 1962 film, To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film “Tender Mercies,” and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television.
Directed by Daniel Inouye
February 21- 25
Verser Theatre
7:30 pm evenings and 2:30 pm Sunday matinee
Tickets $8
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Hello Dolly!!
lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and book by Michael Stewart
Directed by Mary Handiboe
April 18- 21
Jones Performing Arts Center
7:30 pm evenings and 2:30 pm Sunday matinee
Tickets $10
For more information:
Call the box office at: (870) 245-5555
Hours: Monday-Friday, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
PREVIOUS SEASONS
2011-2012 Theatre Productions Calendar