The Theatre Exposure Series (TES) will occur once a month, and is open for anyone to attend, but will be of special interest to the non-musical theater actors. TES will help expand your repertoire of plays, and allow you hear the Classics and great American plays that are not performed during a CPTG season.

Everyone that shows up to the TES will be able to read a role in the chosen play, and contribute during a post-reading group discussion of the play. By the end of the year, you will be more familiar with at least 4-8 plays every theater professional should know.

THEATRE EXPOSURE SERIES

TES: spring 2018

THE 39 steps
By alfred hitchcock
Monday, March 26th @ 5:30 p.m. we are holding a reading of the play "The 39 Steps" by John Buchan in Marillac 305. In this series we take a script and read through it to further understand the identity, gravity, and the external impact it makes. This is a helpful exposure for actors and directors to get more involved in their scripts. Below is a link to the script. Please either print a copy before coming or do one better and use an electronic device to read your script off of. Hope to see you there!!

TES: Fall 2016/Spring 2017

Merlin's tale

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Written by our own Aaron Van Scyoc, we dive into the wonderful world of Merlin.
Written by Edward Albee, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is an classic play that puts the "fun" in dysfunctional.
Married couple George and Martha know just how to push
each other's buttons. Tiring of attacking each other, George
and Martha invite newcomers to join in the invective. After
an evening of sadistic "fun and games," the truth about 
George and Martha's son comes to light.

TES: Fall 2015/ Spring 2016

The Cherry orchard
by anton chekhov

A Street car named desire
by tennessee williams 

Death of a salesman
by arthur miller

speech & debate
by stephen karam

tes: Fall 2014/Spring 2015

Picnic
By william inge

Picnic details the lives of "ordinary" Americans, from hopeful widows and embittered spinster to idealistic teenagers and restless wanderers. Throughout the play, the adult characters envy the young. The prevailing message is that youth is a precious gift that must be svaored instead of squandered.

A Midsummer Nights Dream
By WilLiam Shakespeare

Magic, merriment and romance all unite in one of Shakespeare’s most beloved and imaginative comedies. Starry-eyed lovers escape to an enchanted forest full of lust and bewitchment, where mischievous fairies play tricks, bumbling actors rehearse for a love-play and couples pursue one another, all under the light of the moon.

The Misanthrope
By Moliere

The play satirizes the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, but it also engages a more serious tone when pointing out the flaws which all humans possess. The play differs from other farces at the time by employing dynamic characters like Alceste and Célimène as opposed to the traditionally flat characters used by most satirists to criticize problems in society.

Hedda Gabler
By Henrik Ibsen

Written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890, is a play that has been reviewed as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama. Join us to read a part, participate in a post-read discussion, and add this classic play to your repertoire!