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Current season

Performance schedule fall 2009

Century College Theater is presenting "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.

  • Opening night – October 16, 7:30 PM, Century College Theater
  • additional performances: October 17th, 23rd, and 24th at 7:30 PM
  • October 25th performance is at 2 PM

Cost

  • Century students & patrons 17 and younger – free
  • Seniors 55+ – $5
  • Patrons 18 & older – $7

Tickets may be purchased at the door beginning 45 minutes prior to curtain. Wheelchair seating is available, and parking is free.

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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.

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Photo: Fortinbras (Steven Hoff) is the only one in the castle who can
see all the ghosts (Steve Boerum, Tim Habas, Aaron Hooker, Kelsey Buhr). They are furious that this upstart political “spin doctor” invented
a new story of how they died.

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Photo: Fortinbras (Steven Hoff) is insistent that Osric (Jodi Brockel)
volunteer to be locked up.

spring 2009

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



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



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Jack Worthing (Nate Biessener) and Algernon Moncrief (Mike Hamm)
wrestle over who gets to eat the rest of the muffins.

Contact

For more information, contact Roberta Cullen at 651/779-3201.