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The Unknown Soldier and His Wife
Peter Ustinov
A wry look at the ordinary soldier who gives his life in war, his family, and the structures that lead to his giving his life in war. April, 1970.
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The Lesson
Eugene Ionesco
Ionesco's avant-garde play about language is paired with Edward Albee's The Zoo Story for the first production in John Carroll's Little Theatre.
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Topaze
Marcel Pagnol
Topaz follows a modest school teacher who is fired for being too honest and decides to become a dishonest businessman.
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Theatre in the Lounge
John Carroll University
an informal evening of prose, poetry and drama readings from the students of oral interpretations.
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello
Acting out a play within a play, six characters created by a playwright insist on acting out a play he does not want to write.
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Long Day's Journey into Night
Eugene O'Neill
O'Neill's autobiographical play of destructive family interactions, Long Day's Journey into Night takes place in a single day.
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Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
Sophocles' classic tragic drama of a man whose life is dominated by a prophecy that he will kill his father. As a young man he meets, argues with, and slays a man he does not know is his father.
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These Stubborn Ones
Michael Gallagher
An original play written by a member of the University Theatre, The Stubborn Ones is set in East Berlin where an ex-Nazi general is living incognito. The Communists find him and offer him a choice of helping them or being turned over to the West as a war criminal.
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Joseph Kesselring
The uproarious saga of two charming old ladies who murder numerous people with arsenic in their Brooklyn mansion.
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The Madwoman of Chaillot
Jean Giradoux
Giradoux's play about a madwoman who contrives to have the greedy people of Paris consigned to a bottomless pit in her Rue de Chaillot apartment, making the world a happier, gayer place for herself and her companions.
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The Show-Off
George Kelly
A moral drama laced with humor about the Fisher family in Philadelphia and their reactions to the younger daughter's attachment to a man whose tendency to exaggerate about his accomplishments and his income worry the family.
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The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's romantic plot of Bianca and her suitors and her sister Katherine and her farcical duelling with Petruchio. Presented in April of 1951.
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All My Sons
Arthur Miller
Like his Death of a Salesman, Miller's All My Sons deals with failure and tragedy within a family. It was presented by the John Carroll University Little Theatre Society in January of 1951.
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The Gentleman from Athens
Emmett Lavery
The Little Theatre Society of John Carroll University presented The Gentleman from Athens as part of their plan to lay a foundation of solid dramatic tradition at the university. The play was staged in late April of 1950.
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Everyman
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The Little Theatre Society of John Carroll University presented the fifteenth century play of Everyman in April of 1950.
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The Late Christopher Bean
Sidney Howard
Chris Bean, a painter, becomes an artistic sensation after his death. In this clever and funny satire, the world of a small provincial family gets up-ended when big-time New York art dealers descend upon it, looking for the lost masterpieces of the late artist. Presented in April of 1949.
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Kind Lady
Edward Chodorov
Chodorov's play, adapted from a story by Hugh Walpole, was performed at John Carroll University in April of 1948.
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Riddle Me This
Daniel N. Rubin
John Carroll University's program for the play production of "Riddle Me This," February 1938
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Murder in the Cathedral
T. S. Elliot
Elliot's play about the murder of Thomas a Becket was performed at John Carroll University in February of 1937.
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Three One Act Plays: The Rising of the Moon; Frenzied Finance; The Brink of Silence
Lady Gregory, Lillian Young, and Esther E. Galbraith
Three one-act plays were preformed at John Carroll University by the Little Theatre Society on December 4, 1936 in the new University Heights location.
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Is Zat So
James Gleason
Is Zat So, a comedy involving a promoter who tries to make a boxer out of a tram motorman, was produced in January of 1930.
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