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Fall 2010 – The Comedy of Errors

For our fall production, we've chosen Shakespeare's hilarious comic farce,
"The Comedy of Errors".

Auditions

We're looking for people with acting skills, as well as skills in gymnastics, juggling, and fire eating.

  • Saturday, August 28, 11 am – 2 pm
  • Tuesday, August 31, 5 – 7 pm
  • Wednesday, September 1, 12 Noon – 1:30 pm, or 7:00 – 9:30 pm

(You'll need 30–40 minutes for your audition.)

Callback auditions:

  • Thursday, September 2, 7:00 – 9:45 pm

Those called back are required to attend the entire time. Rehearsals begin September 7. There are no rehearsals on Saturdays evenings or Sundays.

More info on the play and characters is posted on the Callboard outside W1050 Stage Door.

We are also looking for backstage personnel, including Stage Manager, Assistant Stage Manager, Light Board Op, Sound Op, and running crew members.

Performance Dates

Performances are October 15, 16, 22, 23 at 7:30 pm, and October 17 and 24 at 2 pm.

Director

The fabulous "actor's director" Sean Dooley will be directing this production. Sean is a professional actor and director in the Twin Cities.

Contact

For more information, contact: Will Slayden or Roberta Cullen at 651-779-3201.

Spring 2010 – Cabaret

Last April, Century College Theater presented our first musical in 20 years, "Cabaret".

Sally, Cliff & MC

Photo: Sally Bowles, dancer at the Kit Kat Club, flirts with American writer Cliff, while the MC looks on.

Sally, Cliff, MC, Schultz & Schneider

Photo: Cliff, Sally, & the MC celebrate the engagement of Fraulein Schneider and Herr Schultz.

Fall 2009

Century College Theater presented Fortinbras by Lee Blessing, an American playwright.

The story takes up where William Shakespeare's Hamlet left off, and recounts the events after Hamlet's death. In this play, almost every character from Hamlet returns as a ghost.

fortinbras

Photo: Fortinbras (Steven Hoff) is in danger from the ghosts of Hamlet (Steve Boerum) and Ophelia (Kelsey Buhr) for refusing to tell their story to the people of Denmark.

Spring 2009

In April, 2009, Century College Theater presented Oscar Wilde’s comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, the story of two young men-about-town in Victorian England in the late 1880s.

earnest2

Photo: Cecily Cardew (Annica Ahlstrom) and Gwendolen Fairfax (Kathleen Miller) are shocked to read in each others' diaries that they are engaged to the same man named “Earnest”.