Productions -
Current Performance
February-March 2010
Harriet2 Harriet Tubman's Dream
Harriet2 is back by popular demand to delight audiences once again. The delightful stories of Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe are coming to Three Rivers Community College in February 2010. Come join the Three Rivers Community and explore the new Campus, while honoring Black History Month and Women's History Month.
Past Performances
Spinning Into Butter
September 26-27 & October 1-4, 2009
Set on a small college campus in Vermont, “Spinning Into Butter” explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today. When one of the few African American students at liberal Belmont College begins receiving hate mail, the campus erupts, first with shock, then with mutual recrimination as faculty and students alike try to prove their own tolerance by condemning one another. At the center of this malestrom is Sarah Daniels, the dean of students. As the administration sponsors public “race forums” and the students start their activist groups, Sarah is forced to explore her own feelings of racism. Her self-examination leads to some surprising discoveries and painful insights, the consequences of which even she can't predict.
Picasso At The Lapin Agile
"Picasso at the Lapin Agile" is comedian Steve Martin's eccentric comedy about the birth of the Twentieth Century and a meeting of the minds between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein. Both men are on the verge of artistic and scientific masterpieces when they find themselves at a bar in paris called the Lapin Agile. With some help from a "mysterious visitor" and the bar's regulars the two men explore genius and creation. It is a Comedy brimming with youth, truth and beauty—told in a way only Steve Martin could write.
Introducing Mr. Charles Dickens
The Emerson Theater Collaborative presents Albert Cremin's one-man show Introducing Mr. Charles Dickens, in which, he portrays as many as 35 characters, including the great writer himeself. Mr. Cremin has been performing the piece for twenty years. The show, which includes passages from Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers, and The Old Curiosity Shop, had a successful run in NYC at The Lark Studio Theatre.
Mr. Cremin was honored by his Alma Mater when his performance was featured at Emerson College to celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Southwick Recital, a tradition celebrating the Art of Oral Interpretation.
Doubt, A Parable
Set in the St. Nicholas Church School in The Bronx during the fall of 1964, Father Flynn asks the audience, "What do you do when you're not sure?" His colleague, Sister Aloysius, is an old-school nun who insists that her students not be coddled: "Every easy choice today will have its consequence tomorrow. "Flynn, following the Second Vatican Council's directive, believes the clergy should be more accessible to the parish and be thought of "as members of their family." These two schools of thought come head to head when Aloysius suspects Flynn of "interfering" with Donald Muller, the school's first black student. Sister James, an inexperienced but enthusiastic young nun who has been an indirect witness to the dealings between Flynn and Muller, and Donald's mother, Mrs. Muller, provide two more perspectives on the central conflict. Sides are chosen and wounds are inflicted, and somewhere amongst the mayhem is the truth.
