2012-2013 Theatre Productions

Another exciting season at EC!

"Five Women Wearing the Same Dress"

August 30 - September 1
by: Alan Ball -- Directed by EC senior Becky Collins

The play is a comedy set at the home of the bride in Knoxville, Tennessee during the newly married couple's overdone wedding reception. The five bridesmaids have found refuge in the room of Meredith, the sister of the bride. The women come to realize, among other things, that they, despite their differences, have more in common with each other than any of them do with the bride. Lots of adult language and content, and brief partial nudity. Rated R

"The Man Who Came to Dinner"

October 9-14

by: George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- Directed by: Holly Rocke

The Man Who Came to Dinner is a comedy in three acts. Set in the small town of Mesalia, Ohio in the weeks leading to Christmas in the 1930s -- we find the famously outlandish radio wit Sheridan Whiteside of New York City was invited to dine at the house of rich factory owner Ernest W. Stanley and his family. However, before Whiteside enters the house, he slips on a patch of ice outside the front door and injures his hip. Chaos ensues.  Rated G

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"A Kind of Alaska"

November 13-18

by: Harold Pinter -- Directed by: Rhys Lovell

A middle-aged woman named Deborah, who has been in a comatose state for thirty years as a result of contracting sleeping sickness, encephalitis lethargica, awakes with a mind still that of a sixteen-year-old. She must confront a body which seems to have aged without her prior knowledge or consent. Her sister Pauline and Pauline's husband, Hornby, who has been Deborah's devoted doctor over these 3 decades and who may have fallen in love with her, attempt gently to ease her back to her current reality, while withholding some of the more jarring information. Rated PG

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"The Pavilion"

January 24-26

by: Craig Wright -- Directed by EC senior Erin Cochran

This play is by turns poetic and comic, romantic and philosophical. Peter returns to his twenty-year high-school reunion with dreams of winning back Kari, the girl he left behind after an unexpected pregnancy ended their relationship. Rated PG

"Myth and Bricks"

February 7-9

by: Dustin Robert Blackeman -- Directed (and starring) EC senior Jarrod Barth

This one act play bears the inscription "For my father, who taught me to ask the hard questions and keep the answers to myself." A man talks to a brick, or is it a brick? Rated PG

Little Red Devils Improv Show

March 30

This student run Improv show is a culmination of the work students have done to hone their skills.

"Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson"

April 9-14

Music and Lyrics by: Michael Friedman; book by: Alex Timbers - Directed by Marty Lynch

The show is a comedic Wild West rock musical about the founding of the Democratic Party. It redefines Andrew Jackson, America's seventh President, as an Emo rock star and focuses on populism, the Indian Removal Act, and his relationship with his wife Rachel. However, very little (if any) of the play is based on historical fact -- something which will be discussed in length before and after the show. Rated R

Dance Concert

May 2

Come to the interactive dance concert performed by the Dance Methods class.
Rated G

Olio Cemetery Walk

May 5

In conjunction with the Woodford County Historical Society, students will perform theatrical renditions of the exciting life of those who have lived in the area!
Rated G

Central Illinois Stage Combat Workshop

May 20 - June 7

Entering into it's 9th year, this workshop will train actors in the safe performance of theatrical weapons. Open to all skill levels.

Ticket Information

$5.00 - All Tickets

Reservations can be made via phone or via email. See contact info below.

All tickets are available at the Box Office on the evening of the performance.

Reservations must be picked up by 7:15 p.m. or they will be resold. Curtain time is at 7:30 p.m.  House opens at 7:00 p.m. Festival Seating - first come, better seat.

Handicapped Accessible.