(October 2014) – Hanover College Theatre will stage its 2014-15 season at its new theatrical venue, The Other Place, located in the former Donner Lecture Hall.
In need of repairs and upgrades, Parker Auditorium is currently closed for public performances. The new location is a 100-seat theater whose name is a bow to the Royal Shakespeare Co.’s small studio theater in Stratford, England, of the same name. Conversion of the space includes installation of audience risers, a stage, lighting equipment and air conditioning.
The Other Place theatre is located inside Donner Hall.
The season begins with “The Dining Room,” by A.R. Gurney Jr., directed by Stark. The show runs Oct. 3-5 at 7:30 p.m. In this charming comedy, generations nourish, nurture and nettle each other with their napkins in their laps. First performed at Playwrights Horizons in New York City in 1982, and written by one of America’s foremost contemporary playwrights, the play has established itself as a classic in theaters around the country.
Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” directed by Stark, runs Feb. 12-15 at 7:30 p.m. In this romantic comedy, four young men vow to give up the company of women in order to concentrate on their studies, but it doesn’t work out that way.
The production will tour to perform at the Shakespeare Birthplace in Stratford, England, during May term. This marks the 50th anniversary of the partnership between the Hanover College Theatre and the Shakespeare Birthplace, through the course, Shakespeare in England.
Every other May term, the course takes students for three weeks of immersion in Shakespeare at the Birthplace and at the Royal Shakespeare Co. in Stratford and London.
The season concludes March 27-28 with the perennial audience favorite, an evening of new 10-minute plays written by the fall playwriting class and directed by the winter directing class. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m.
With seating limited to 100 a night, rather than the 700 seats audiences have been used to, advanced reservations are highly recommended. Visit hanover.edu/arts or call the campus box office at (812) 866-7110.