[SDS] Fall Play 2012

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Fall Play 2012


We brainstormed as a/ society, received input from Linda, Dave, Robert, and  
Carl, and now the decision has come back to you. We ask that you read the  
descriptions and do a little research to determine the right production for  
our us. Please keep in mind our strengths and limitations.  
METAMORPHOSES "Metamorphoses" is a play by American playwright Mary  
Zimmerman adapted from the classic Ovid poem, Metamorphoses. The play is  
staged as a series of vignettes; Including the stories of Cosmogony, Midas,  
Alcyone and Ceyx, Erysichthon and Ceres, Orpheus and Eurydice, Narcissus,  
Pomona and Vertumnus, Myrrha, Phaeton, Eros and Psyche, and Baucis and  
Philemon. "Metamorphoses" acts as a hybrid by containing elements of  
various genres including comedy, classic tragedy, and drama, but not  
necessarily limited to any of them. "Metamorphoses" borrows many aspects  
from the theater genre of opera in the sense that it uses visual and aural  
illusions and achieving them in fairly simplistic ways. The central idea  
of "Metamorphoses" can be defined as the changing power of love. This  
show's main set piece is a pool, either conceptual or physical.  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses_%28play%29 THE MOUSETRAP "The  
Mousetrap" is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie. The author comes  
forth with another hit about a group of strangers stranded in a boarding  
house during a snow storm, one of whom is a murderer. The suspects include  
the newly married couple who run the house, and the suspicions that are in  
their minds nearly wreck their perfect marriage. Others are a spinster with  
a curious background, an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef,  
a retired Army major, a strange little man who claims his car has  
overturned in a drift, and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone.  
Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. He no sooner  
arrives, than the jurist is killed. Two down, and one to go. To get to the  
rationale of the murderer's pattern, the policeman probes the background of  
everyone present, and rattles a lot of skeletons. Another famous Agatha  
Christie switch finish! Chalk up another superb intrigue for the foremost  
mystery writer of her time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mousetrap  
MURDERED TO DEATH "Murdered to Death" is the hilarious spoof of the best of  
Agatha Christie traditions is set in a country manor house in the 1930s,  
with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight—Bunting, the  
butler; an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip; a shady  
French art dealer and his moll; the bumbling local inspector and a  
well-meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she  
goes—they're all here, and all caught up in the side-splitting antics which  
follow the mysterious death of the house's owner. It soon becomes clear  
that the murderer isn't finished yet, but will the murderer be unmasked  
before everyone else has met their doom, or will readers and audiences die  
laughing first? http://www.petergordonplays.com/MTD.htm If you have any  
comments or questions, please contact the SDS eboard at sds at stevens.edu  
This poll will run until 5:00PM on Friday, May 25th.


Which play would you like to see SDS produce this upcoming Fall? * Please  
pick one.

Metamorphoses
The Mousetrap
Murdered to Death


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