Coming Attractions

CHAMPLAIN THEATRE presents ...

How I Learned to Drive

by

Paula Vogel

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, co-winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. The Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding play. As well as the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Drama Desk, and the Obie awards for the best play of the year.

How I Learned to Drive is a funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival and self-forgiveness as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man. The play is about families, growing up, becoming independent, and the unpredictable ways in which we learn to take ownership of the driver's seat.

SEPTEMBER 17-20 & 25-27
8:00 P.M.
ALUMNI AUDITORIUM
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE
$15.00/GENERAL
CHAMPLAIN STUDENTS WITH I.D. FREE
TICKETS MAY BE PURCHASED AT THE DOOR

Mature language and content; not suitable for young audiences

Voices of Diversity Project's Festivals of Light

Directed by Eric Ronis, Festivals of Light will feature a variety of Champlain College community performers, musicians, storytellers and artists from a wide variety of backgrounds, coming together to create a global holiday celebration! This will be a family-friendly event. Celebratory, fun, informative and thought-provoking!

The VOICES of DIVERSITY PROJECT began as an ongoing tribute to the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and seeks to cultivate new voices in the artistic media (theatre, dance, music, visual arts, writing, electronic media arts, etc.) as a way of contributing to the ongoing discussion about diversity on the Champlain College campus.

DECEMBER 5
7:00 P.M.
ALUMNI AUDITORIUM
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE
ADMISSION FREE

Complexities of Love

"Boy meets girl." Well, there's more to love than that. A LOT more! Come celebrate Valentine's Day with an evening of music, dance, poetry, film and theatre exploring the diverse faces of lovers and their loved ones.

FEBRUARY 13 &14
7:30 P.M.
ALUMNI AUDITORIUM
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE
ADMISSION FREE

Short Works Festival

Champlain College students present short theatrical works. Some classic, some contemporary, some original, but all promise an evening that is challenging, poetic, deeply human and often funny.

FEBRUARY 27 & 28
7:30 P.M.
ALUMNI AUDITORIUM
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE
$10.00/GENERAL
CHAMPLAIN STUDENTS WITH I.D. FREE
TICKETS MAY BE PURCHASED AT THE DOOR

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

by

Martin McDonagh

"Mr. McDonagh has managed to celebrate what remains enduring and alive in human nature even in the most appalling circumstances."- New Republic.

"Mr. McDonagh...[is] like a young version of Synge in exile whose voice, worn with sorrow and savage humor owes a debt to Synge's Playboy of the Western World...The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a gothic dark comedy."- NY Observer

Co-winner of the 1998 Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding play. Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative aging mother whose interference in Maureen's first and possibly last change for a loving relationship sets into motion a train of events that leads inexorably towards the play's terrifying denouement.

April 1-4 & 9-11
8:00 P.M.
FLYNN SPACE
147 MAIN STREET, BURLINGTON
$20.00/GENERAL
To purchase tickets, call the Flynn Regional Box office 863-5966

Mature language and content; not suitable for young audiences

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Expect to be entertained as the Champlain Players take your lead and create short scenes that are sure to make you laugh!

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Emerging Playwrights Series

Staged readings of new scripts by local playwrights!

All performances may accommodate persons with a variety of disabilities: the Auditorium and FlynnSpace are wheelchair accessible and some shows are audio-described. FOR MORE INFORMATION -- CALL 651-5962