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Series price: $48 (Save about 25% • Full price: $65)
Four events on Thursday evenings at 7:30 PM
Pepperdine University Fine Arts Division
Mary Pickford-Stotsenberg Performances
The Persians
By Aeschylus
Bradley Griffin, Director
Featuring live music composed and performed by N. Lincoln Hanks.
The citizens of Persia await news of King Xerxes, who has led the Persian army into an ill-advised war. When at last the herald arrives, the news is not good. As the community grapples with the concept of defeat, their queen must prepare to welcome home her son, the disgraced king. Playwright/actor Ellen McLaughlin has adapted this oldest surviving Greek tragedy into a moving, poetic, and timely consideration of war, pride, and—ultimately—loss.
Tuesday-Friday, October 6-9, 7:30 PM
Saturday, October 10, 2 and 7:30 PM • $15
$10 for Pepperdine students; $12 for Pepperdine faculty and staff
Helen E. Lindhurst Theatre • No late seating allowed
Join a forum for discussion right after the Wednesday performance.
Sweeney Todd
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - A Musical Thriller
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond
Cathy Thomas-Grant, Director
With the Pepperdine University Orchestra,
Tony Cason, Conductor
This heart-pounding musical masterpiece of tonsorial terror and culinary crime tells of a barber who returns to Victorian London seeking revenge against the corrupt judge who exiled him and ravished his young wife. When his thirst for blood expands to include his unfortunate customers, his resourceful neighbor downstairs soon has Londoners lining up in droves to sample her mysterious new meat pies!
Thursday–Saturday, November 12–14 and 19–21, 7:30 PM
Matinee: Sunday, November 15, 2 PM
$20 • $10 for Pepperdine students
$16 for Pepperdine faculty and staff
Smothers Theatre
Gold, Platinum, and Diamond Members of the Center for the Arts Guild are invited to a special backstage tour before the November 19 performance of Sweeney Todd.
Waiting for Godot
By Samuel Beckett
Jason Chanos, Director
Subtitled "a tragicomedy in two acts," this play will get your existential juices flowing. In the best tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd, its two main characters wait...and wait...and wait for the mysterious title character. Who is he, and will he ever show up? Thanks to its cryptically bare structure, the play's meaning is wide open to interpretation. Is it biblical? Freudian? Political? Perhaps only Godot knows for sure.
Tuesday-Friday, January 26-29, 7:30 PM
Saturday, January 30, 2 and 7:30 PM • $15
$10 for Pepperdine students; $12 for Pepperdine faculty and staff
Helen E. Lindhurst Theatre • No late seating allowed
Join a forum for discussion right after the Wednesday performance.
A Flea in Her Ear
A New Version of Georges Feydeau's Farce by David Ives
Bradley Griffin, Director
One pair of suspenders, a suspicious wife, a jealous Spaniard, a couple of conniving servants, and a master of the house who happens to resemble the bellboy at a local hotel add up to mayhem and misunderstanding in this hilarious new adaptation of Feydeau's classic French farce. Set in fin-de-siècle Paris, the play combines breathless action and brilliant wit as the characters track that most elusive of prey—true love.
Tuesday-Saturday, April 6-10, 7:30 PM • $15
$10 for Pepperdine students
$12 for Pepperdine faculty and staff
Smothers Theatre
Join a forum for discussion right after the Wednesday performance.
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