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Theater Department
Calendar Winter/Spring
2008-2009
Mark your calendars and come
out, celebrate, and support
Episcopal’s theater season in the
fabulous new Ridgway Black Box
and Main Stage theaters.
> Upper School III Form Play
This is a Test by Stephen Gregg
December 17th at 7:00 p.m.
Ridgway Black Box Theater
Poster art by Bryant
Myers ’09
Isaac Loftus ’09 as
Galileo
> Upper School Dance
Dance Concert, Khayatt Music
Performances, & Art Opening
February 11th at 7:00 p.m.
Main Stage Theater & Lobby
> Upper School Musical
Grease by Jim Jacobs & Warren
Casey
March 13th at 8:00 p.m.
March 14th at 2:00 p.m. &
8:00 p.m.
Main Stage Theater
> Upper School Theater
One Act Festival
April 30th at 7:30 p.m.
May 1st at 8:00 p.m.,
May 2nd at 3 p.m. & 8:00 p.m.
Ridgway Black Box Theater
> Middle School Spring Play
To See the Stars by Cynthia
Mercati
May 15th at 7:30 p.m.
Main Stage Theater
Domino Club Stages “Galileo”
First production in Ridgway Black Box theater
takes program to new heights
Described by Theater Department Chair, Susan LaPalombara, as “one of
the finest high school productions I have ever seen,” The Domino Club
staged Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo” this fall in the new Ridgway Black Box
Theater. Under the guidance of director Dan Clay, the cast spent countless
hours in rehearsal while the technical crew prepared an intimate setting where
the production could be presented “in-the-round.” The flexibility of the Ridgway
Theater made this intimate production possible.
Considered by many to be one of Brecht’s masterpieces,“Galileo” explores the
question of a scientist’s social and ethical responsibility, as the brilliant Galileo
(Isaac Loftus ’09) must choose between his life and his life’s work when he is confronted
with the demands of the Roman Inquisition. Through his characterization
of the famous physicist, Brecht examines the issues of scientific morality and the difficult
relationship between the intellectual and authority.
The cast included Isaac Loftus ’09, Jeff Familetti ’10, Hannah LaPalombara ’09,
Dylan Kepp ’10, Angira Pickens ’11, Sarah Mezzanote ’11, Mac Lee ’10, Paul Riley
’11, Felicity Johnson ’10, John Steele ’10, Sean Purcell ’11, Olivia Glass ’10,
Andrew Espe ’09, Eric Cross ’09, Kate Ruggiero ’11, Ben Chung ’11, and Gregory
Smith ’17.
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