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As You Like It
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
We celebrate the best of Shakespeare with laughter...music...dances...romance...comedy at all levels. The story of how the banished Duke, Rosalind, Orlando and others find happiness through love is one of the most delightful of all Shakespearean tales. The wit of the clown, Touchstone, the philosophy of "All the world's a stage...", the music of "It was a lover and his lass...", the earthy needs of the country people, the romantic honesty of young lovers in tune with nature...all can be found in As You Like It.
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An Engaging Position
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
A comedy in two acts by Lewis E. MacBrayne.
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The Great Umbrella Case
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
A mock trial written by F. E. Chase.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
In one of the most famous of literary love quadrangles, A Midsummer Night’s Dream tells the tale of Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander, and Helena; four misguided lovers whose journey into the woods lands them in even more trouble, as members of the fairy kingdom decide to use them as veritable pawns in their own love games. Against the backdrop of the wedding of Duke Theseus and Hippolyta, and the fiery battle of wills between the Fairy King and Queen, Oberon and Titania, the four lovers are challenged by magic and trickery to finally work out what love is all about.
https://stageagent.com/shows/play/450/a-midsummer-nights-dream
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College Chums
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
A three-act comedy about college life.
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As You Like It
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
We celebrate the best of Shakespeare with laughter...music...dances...romance...comedy at all levels. The story of how the banished Duke, Rosalind, Orlando and others find happiness through love is one of the most delightful of all Shakespearean tales. The wit of the clown, Touchstone, the philosophy of "All the world's a stage...", the music of "It was a lover and his lass...", the earthy needs of the country people, the romantic honesty of young lovers in tune with nature...all can be found in As You Like It.
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The Ulster
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
A farcical comedy in three acts written by Sydney Rosenfeld.
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Twelfth Night
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centers on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as Cesario) falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with the Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with plot elements drawn from the short story "Of Apollonius and Silla" by Barnabe Rich, based on a story by Matteo Bandello. The first recorded performance was on 2 February 1602, at Candlemas, the formal end of Christmastide in the year's calendar. The play was not published until its inclusion in the 1623 First Folio.
Twelfth Night. (2017, September 20). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:28, September 26, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Twelfth_Night&oldid=801627056
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The Rivals
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
Set in fashionable Bath, The Rivals centers around the complicated relationship between Lydia Languish and Captain Jack Absolute. The Rivals satirizes the social expectations of courtship and marriage among the upper classes, while also exploring themes of honor and the role of women in the eighteenth century.
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Brains, Breakfastfood and Basketball
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
A mysterious murder in three acts presented by the Otterbein Junior Class in 1914.
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The Merchant of Venice
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice must default on a large loan provided by an abused (Jewish) moneylender. It is believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and it is best known for Shylock and the famous "Hath not a Jew eyes?" speech. Also notable is Portia's speech about "the quality of mercy".
The Merchant of Venice. (2017, June 12). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:22, June 12, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Merchant_of_Venice&oldid=785235511
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Twelfth Night
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centers on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as Cesario) falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with the Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with plot elements drawn from the short story "Of Apollonius and Silla" by Barnabe Rich, based on a story by Matteo Bandello. The first recorded performance was on 2 February 1602, at Candlemas, the formal end of Christmastide in the year's calendar. The play was not published until its inclusion in the 1623 First Folio.
Twelfth Night. (2017, September 20). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:28, September 26, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Twelfth_Night&oldid=801627056
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Much Ado About Nothing
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career. The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623.
By means of "noting" (which, in Shakespeare's day, sounded similar to "nothing" as in the play's title, and which means gossip, rumour, and overhearing), Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confessing their love for each other, and Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero at the altar on the erroneous belief that she has been unfaithful. At the end, Benedick and Beatrice join forces to set things right, and the others join in a dance celebrating the marriages of the two couples.
Much Ado About Nothing. (2017, August 5). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:41, August 31, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Much_Ado_About_Nothing&oldid=794025889
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The Miser
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
Satire and farce blend in the fast-moving plot, as when the miser's hoard is stolen. Asked by the police magistrate whom he suspects, Harpagon replies, “Everybody! I wish you to take into custody the whole town and suburbs” and indicates the theatre audience while doing so. The play also makes fun of certain theatrical conventions, such as the spoken aside addressed to the audience, hitherto ignored by the characters onstage. The characters of L'Avare, however, generally demand to know who exactly is being spoken to.
The Miser. (2017, July 19). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:08, September 26, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Miser&oldid=791333332
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A Scrap of Paper
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
Prosper and Clarisse, former lovers, have been forced by circumstances to part. Clarisse marries Vanhove, and three years later Prosper returns to court Clarisse's sister Marthe, who loves Paul, a young student. Prosper learns that Clarisse's last letter to him has remained for three years under the statue that the lovers had used as a mailbox. To Clarissé s horror, Prosper obtains the letter. Accompanied by her friend Suzanne, she goes to see Prosper in an attempt to get it back. Vanhove unexpectedly arrives, and though initially suspicious, he decides that it is Suzanne who has come to see Prosper. At Suzanne's urging, Prosper burns the letter, but a scrap blows into the street just as Vanhove is passing by with M. Thirion, Paul's tutor, who uses it to wrap an insect specimen.
Later, Paul unknowingly uses the scrap of paper to scribble a hurried note to Marthe, a note that is mistakenly given to Mme. Thirion while everyone is dining at the Vanhove home. After some confusion, Prosper, who has meanwhile transferred his affections to Suzanne, manages to convince Vanhove that Suzanne had always been the object of his passion. This leaves the way open for the marriage of Marthe and Paul.
http://www.4-wall.com/authors/authors_s/sardou_victorien/scrap_paper.htm
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Green Stockings
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
Deals with the custom whereby an elder sister is compelled to wear green stockings at the wedding of a younger sister, provided she herself happens to be unmarried or unbetrothed. After having worn the hated stockings twice, Celia Faraday rebels when the time approaches for her to wear them a third time. She therefore invents a sweetheart of the name of Smith, and excuses his non-appearance by saying that immediately after she has become engaged he was obliged to sail for the war in South Africa. The surprise of her sisters forces her into details of supposed fact which have to be manufactured at short notice. She is even induced to write a letter to him, and though she subsequently thinks she has destroyed it, it is mailed bv her younger sister. The strange thing is that the name she thought was purely fictious is borne bv an officer in the armv, who receives the letter, and turns up under an assumed name shortly after the publication of the death notice. His interview with Celia results in a series of amusing situations that terminate happily. A comedy of unalloyed delight.
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Fanny and the Servant Problem
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
A quite possible play in four acts from playwright Jerome K. Jerome.
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Robina in Search of a Husband
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
A farce in four acts by Jerome K. Jerome.
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All-of-a-Sudden Peggy
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
Peggy O'Hara (Clark) who with her widowed mother Mrs. O'Hara is staying at the manor of Lord Anthony Crackenthorpe, a scientist engrossed in the study of spiders. Mrs. O'Hara is assisting Lord Anthony. The sister of the peer sends for her son Jimmy because she thinks Peggy has designs on Lord Anthony. Jimmy falls in love with Peggy, and in order to further her mother's love affair with Lord Anthony, Peggy announces her engagement with Jimmy. She goes to London where her pocket is picked, and has to stay at Jimmy's bachelor quarters while he is away on business. The sudden appearance of Jimmy, his mother and father, and a prying neighbor precipitates matters, with Peggy having spent the night there suggesting a scandal. In the end it is straightened out and Peggy consents to marry Jimmy.
Wikipedia contributors. (2019, February 20). All of a Sudden Peggy. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19:32, August 9, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All_of_a_Sudden_Peggy&oldid=884278447
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