Project #1 Professional

Indiana Repertory Theatre

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Adapted by Christopher Sergel

"The trial and the repercussions for the Finch family present a gripping drama, full of tensions and character revelations."
http://www.edinburghguide.com/aande/theatre/reviews_05/t/to_kill_a_mocking_bird_pitlochry.shtml

"...this Liberal morality-tale plays out its inevitable miscarriage of justice."
http://www.theatermirror.com/mock.htm

Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Adapted by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus

"...this is ''Crime and Punishment'' as pure Christian morality tale."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9B0DE5D6153DF93AA35752C0A961948260

"Writers' Theater co-founder Marilyn Campbell and Chicago writer/director Curt Columbus have condensed the complex 1866 masterpiece into a 90-minute psychological drama..."
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1N1-110EB32A05DC84D0.html

The Ladies Man
by Georges Feydeau
Adapted from Taillieur Pour Dames by Charles Morey

"Well, this is a farce so the plot is both crucial and of no consequence at all..."
http://myvanwy.tripod.com/companies/shakesco/ladiesman.html

"The Ladies Man features razor-fine, saucy language and whip-smart dialogue that make this comedy zing."
http://www.shakespeare.org/blog/2008/05/the-ladies-man-opens-saturday/comment-page-1/

Crowns
by Regina Taylor

"A musical based on a coffee table book of quotes and black and white photographs..."
http://www.goldfishpublishers.com/Crowns_ATC.html

"Ms. Taylor has thrown in as many genres as she could get her hands on...a satire of stereotypes.."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E5DE1639F93AA2575AC0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire

"...the drama also marks a significant departure for Mr. Lindsay-Abaire..."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/02/03/theater/reviews/03rabb.html

"David Lindsay-Abaire’s comic drama, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007..."
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_stage_theat/2008/04/theater-revie-2.html

Interpreting William
by James Still

World premier, May 12 2009
No reviews currently available

Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adapted by Steven Dietz

"IRT has not been especially well-known for its mysteries in recent years, but if future productions equal this one, that reputation may change."
http://www.indy.com/posts/theatre-review-irt-s-sherlock-holmes-the-final-adventure

"...the episodic play keeps moving briskly..."
http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/west/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002275971

Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

"And while I felt some trepidation about watching a mostly amateur cast take on Shakespearean tragedy.."
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009901100335

..."Shakespeare’s greats, a drama that, at once, contains politics, poetry and paganism, awesome insight and sustained irony.."
http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/the_theater_loop/2009/01/chicago-shakespeare-stages-a-gutsy-macbeth-with-hints-of-chicago.html

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Adapted by Tom Haas

"Set on a minimalist stage covered in snow, this adapation features the characters narrating their own actions to the audience and intersperses carols and dance along with the visits of the ghosts."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A_Christmas_Carol_adaptations

"...[an] understated social commentary on money, happiness, and family."
http://www.examiner.com/x-1471-Boston-Theater-Examiner~y2008m12d16-A-Christmas-Carol-at-the-New-Rep-theater-review

This Wonderful Life
by Steve Murray
Conceived by Mark Setlock

"This Wonderful Life is a one-man presentation of the repeatedly enjoyable 1946 Frank Capra film, It's a Wonderful Life."
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/pitt/p177.html

"...somewhere between adaptation, homage, and parody..."
http://www.pcs.org/_images/press_releases/ThisWonderfulLife06PR.pdf

Project #1 Academic

Indiana University- Bloomington

Dead Man Walking
By Tim Robbins

"this is hard-hitting drama that neither accepts nor offers quarter."
http://www.reelviews.net/movies/d/dead_man.html

"it’s a commentary and not a parody"
http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2008/10/15/scene.qp-1515177.sto

Hamlet
By William Shakespeare

"...Shakespeare's great tragedy"
http://www.musicomh.com/theatre/hamlet.htm

"...stock characteristics of the revenge drama genre... [with] elements of the metadrama and the mystery play..."
http://www.hamlethaven.com/genre.html

Marisol
By José Rivera

"The play is a thought-provoking, dramatic commentary."
http://www.siue.edu/ALESTLE/library/SPRING2001/apr19/marisol.html

"The play strings along a merry absurdist plotline..."
http://www.fresnobeehive.com/archives/2007/04/theater_review_4.html

The Boys Next Door
By Tom Griffin

"Griffin's play is a comedy..."
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/PrintFriendly?oid=29344

"There is devious power in Griffin’s dextrous mingling of outrageous comedy and this sort of sobering drama."
http://www.stageloft.com/Reviews/boysnextdoor.htm

Same Time Next Year
By Bernard Slade

"Romantic comedies don’t come any slicker than this one."
http://www.blogtheberkshires.com/theater/2008/07/same_time_next_year.html

"Bernard Slade's racy comedy opened in 1975, right in the midst of the sexual revolution."
http://www.goldfishpublishers.com/SameTimeNextYear_TLT.html

How the Other Half Loves
By Alan Ayckbourn

"How the Other Half Loves is a direct descendant of the drawing room farces of Oscar Wilde..."
http://www.culturevulture.net/Theater/HowtheOtherHalfLoves.htm

"How the Other Half Loves cemented Ayckbourn’s reputation as a master of the situation comedy genre."
http://www.malvern-theatres.co.uk/events/45

The Seagull
By Anton Checkhov

"Chekhov described "The Seagull" as a comedy which past productions often failed to bring out."
http://www.ny1.com/content/ny1_living/86704/ny1-theater-review---the-seagull-/Default.aspx

"If you are in the mood for a dark comedy, you won't find a better option."
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/minn/minn25.html

Metamorphoses
By Zimmerman

"...a synthesis of drama, myth, and archetypal psychology."
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/performing_arts_journal/v025/25.1garwood.html

"Metamorphoses acts as a hyrid by containing elements of various genres including comedy, classic tragedy, and drama, but not necessarily limited to any of them."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses_(play)#Genre

An Ideal Husband
By Oscar Wilde

"Over here, amid a swirl of “beautiful idiots,” as Wilde calls them, is broad, silly comedy..."
http://www.theaterdogs.net/2008/07/06/review-an-ideal-husband%E2%80%99/An

"Ideal Husband is Wilde's most earnest social satire."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2007/dec/19/theatre

Stop Kiss
By Diana Son

"What we have then is a seriocomedy -- a thoroughly modern story that uses a gay love story to point out the unexpected places to which love can take us."
http://www.curtainup.com/stopkiss.html

"In this delicately balanced comic drama..."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9502EFDC163AF934A35751C1A96E958260