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  The Fantasticks

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud. The fathers hire traveling actors to stage a mock abduction, so that Matt can heroically seem to save Luisa, ending the supposed feud. When the children discover the deception, they reject the arranged love match and separate. Each then gains disillusioning experiences of the real world, seen in parallel fantasy sequences. They return to each other bruised but enlightened, and they renew their vows with more maturity.

  The Fantasticks. (2017, June 8). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:46, June 14, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Fantasticks&oldid=784520670

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  Rhinoceros

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  Rhinoceros (French original title Rhinocéros) is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant garde drama, "The Theatre of the Absurd", although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow. Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses; ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is initially criticized in the play for his drinking, tardiness, and slovenly lifestyle and then, later, for his increasing paranoia and obsession with the rhinoceroses. The play is often read as a response and criticism to the sudden upsurge of Communism, Fascism, and Nazism during the events preceding World War II, and explores the themes of conformity, culture, mass movements, mob mentality, philosophy and morality.

  Rhinoceros (play). (2017, June 13). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:53, June 14, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rhinoceros_(play)&oldid=785433576

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  The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1957 play by William Inge about family conflicts during the early 1920s in a small Oklahoma town. It was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play in 1958 and was made into a film of the same name in 1960.

  The drama centers on Rubin Flood, who loses his salesman job. While searching for a new job, he must deal with his wife, Cora, who shuns intimacy and mistakes his joblessness for stinginess, his shy daughter who prepares for her first dance and his pre-teen son who runs to his mother instead of dealing with bullies. He tries to find comfort with a friend, Mavis Pruitt, thus setting off rumors of an untoward relationship.

  The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. (2016, November 20). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:58, June 14, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Dark_at_the_Top_of_the_Stairs&oldid=750513531

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  Take Her, She's Mine

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  A father is overprotective toward his teenage daughter as she leaves home to go to college and study abroad in Paris.

  Take Her, She's Mine. (2017, June 4). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:05, June 14, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Take_Her,_She%27s_Mine&oldid=783721960

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  The Philadelphia Story

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  The Philadelphia Story is a 1939 American comic play by Philip Barry. It tells the story of a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and an attractive journalist.