December 1, 2014, 2013
Newsletter
Theatre 490 Project: INCOMPLETE
this Friday and Saturday
Spring 2014
Productions:
Hinterlands Devised Project
Directed by Richard Newman
February 20 & 21, 25-28
7:30pm, DeWitt Main Theatre
The Children’s Hour
by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Daina Robins
April 17 & 18, 22-25
7:30pm, DeWitt Main Theatre
Upcoming
Dates:
INCOMPLETE by Austen Boer
Directed by Austen Boer
4-5
December
Inventing America, DeWitt Main Theatre, 7:30pm,
Admission Free.
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“A play that explores social implications of gender and how we
interact.”
Theatre 490 Project: Incomplete, DeWitt Studio Theatre,
10pm.
December 5, 10:00 PM
December 6, 2:00 & 7:30 PM
DeWitt Studio Theatre
Theatre 490 Project: Incomplete, DeWitt Studio Theatre,
2pm & 7:30pm
Tickets are $2 and can be purchased at the door or reserved by
emailing tessa.schultz@hope.edu
January
Deck Manager Needed
Inventing America needs a deck manager/stage manager to help get
things set up and to stand by during the performance. The times
would be Wed. Thur and Fri evenings, 6:00 or 6:30 to around 9 plus
checking in with us Wed and Thursday afternoons when possible (or
depending on student’s availability. Please contact John Tammi (tammi@hope.edu) or Reagan (chesnut@hope.edu) if interested.
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6-11
Kennedy Center
American College Theatre Festival. Theatre classes cancelled.
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Arts & Humanities Day,
12-2pm, Maas Center
From the Events and Conferences Office:
Public Invited to PBS Pilot “Interview”
with Founding Fathers on Thursday and
Friday
A “live” interview and Q&A session with the nation’s Founding Fathers on Thursday and Friday, Dec.
4-5, at Hope College will present an opportunity for audience members not only to learn about the
origins of the United States but also to experience production of a television pilot.
The event, which will take place in the main theatre of the college’s DeWitt Center at 7:30 p.m. both
evenings, will become the one-hour pilot episode of a proposed PBS prime-time public television series called “Inventing America.” The scripted performance will be followed by an audience question-and-answer session in which the Founders will apply their ideas to the 21st century.
The public is invited. Admission is free, although advance ticketed reservations are recommended.
Created by Holland resident Milton Nieuwsma, a two-time Emmy Award winner, the program will tell
the story of the American republic and apply the Founders’ ideas to the present time. The format is
modeled after Steve Allen’s classic “Meeting of Minds” series, which aired on PBS from 1977 to 1981.
The first episode will tell the story behind the Declaration of Independence. The evening will feature
three of the Declaration’s signers—Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin—and one
delegate to the Second Continental Congress, John Dickinson, who refused to sign, revealing the conflict behind the historic event. While imagined and presented as a retrospective, the conversation will
be based on fact, using the Founders’ actual words.
Jefferson, Adams and Franklin will be portrayed by Bill Barker, Sam Goodyear and John Hamant respectively, all of whom are actors with Colonial Williamsburg, and Dickinson will be portrayed by actor
Rodney TeSlaa of the Greater Grand Rapids area. The moderator will be Marc Baer, professor of history and chair of Hope’s department of history. The director is John K.V. Tammi, professor emeritus
of theatre and the founding artistic director of the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre.
The pilot will be filmed by WGVU-TV, the PBS affiliate in Grand Rapids. If PBS approves the project,
the series will be co-produced by WGBH and Hope College and broadcast on 350 PBS stations in the
United States and its possessions. The number of episodes will range from three to eight, depending
on funding and viewer response.
Darell Schregardus of Holland, who like Nieuwsma is a 1963 Hope graduate, is the executive producer.
“Our goal,” he said, “is to instill a deeper appreciation of our national heritage and to put Hope College
at the forefront of this endeavor.”
Tickets may be obtained in advance at the ticket office in the college’s Events and Conferences Office,
with any remaining tickets available at the door. Located downtown in the Anderson-Werkman Financial Center at 100 E. Eighth St., the office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at
(616) 395-7890.
The DeWitt Center is located at 141 E. 12th St., on 12th Street at Columbia Avenue. Nearby parking
includes college lots accessed from Columbia Avenue north of 13th Street; from 10th Street between
Columbia and the railroad tracks; and from 13th Street between Columbia and the railroad tracks.
Assistant Stage Managers Needed
If you are interested in participating in one of this fall’s productions as an assistant stage manager, please contact Michelle Bombe at bombe@hope.edu. The stage management team plays a
vital role in the running of rehearsals and productions and have the opportunity to experience
all aspects of the production process. No prior experience is required.
Digital Theatre Resources
Check out our two streaming theatre databases are available through the libary! You can access them
through the library website or from the links:
Digital Theatre Plus
Contains dozens of full productions, documentaries and interviews with theatre-makers.
http://0-www.digitaltheatreplus.com.lib.hope.
edu/
Routledge Performance Archive
Practitioner-focused audio/video resource for
the theatre arts. Videos of workshops and textual materials
http://0-www.routledgeperformancearchive.
com.lib.hope.edu/