Main Stage Production
TFMS produces three or four main stage shows (major productions) per season in the Bruce Davis Theater. Directed by the faculty or guest artists, these productions encompass the widest possible range of theatrical forms, genres, periods, and experiment. Each season offers students opportunities to perform, design, stage-manage, or crew a range of material, staged in various configurations (proscenium, thrust, arena, or alley). The department encourages and relies on student involvement to mount each production, and recognizes that without student assistance the production season would not materialize.
In addition to the main stage season, the White Room regularly produces shows written and/or directed by students. White Room activities supplement the department's main stage offerings and afford students further opportunities to direct, design, perform, stage-manage, or crew. Read More about the White Room and the White Room Committee.
Also, the department complements its production season with occasional guest artist residencies and/or shows designed specifically for touring to community schools. Guest artists may be contracted to direct or design main stage shows, or may be members of regional, national, or international theater companies, such as Bread and Puppet Theater (in residency 1991, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004), who hold workshops and performances for the College and St. Mary's communities. View the list of recent visiting guest artists.
A sample of recent main stage productions follows:
The Balcony, by Jean Genet (2008)
Dancing on the Earth: a dance concert (2007)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare (2007)
The Mandrake, by Niccolo Machiavelli (2007)
The Wild Duck, by Henrik Ibsen (2006)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by Salman Rushdie, adapted for the stage by Timothy Supple and David Tushingham (2006)
The Cocoonery, by Merideth Taylor (2006)
HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, by Gerome Ragni, James Rado, and Galt MacDermot (2006)
Fuente Ovejuna, by Lope de Vega (2005)
The Road to Kyoto!, stage adaptation by James R. Brandon and Kathy Foley (2005)
The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild, by Paul Zindel (2005)
DANCING 2004, a faculty-student dance concert (2004)
The Serpent, by Jean-Claude van Itallie (2004)
900 Dreams, by Sharon Wyrrick (2004)
Don Juan Comes Back from the War, by Ödon von Horváth (2004)
The Miser (2003), Tartuffe (1994), by Molière
Old Times, by Harold Pinter (2003)
Love's Labour's Lost (2003), Julius Caesar (1996), Macbeth (1993), Richard III (1990), by Shakespeare
Three Japanese Plays in Translation: Delicious Poison (Busu), Black Tuesday, Tricked by a Rhythm (Yobikoe), various authors (2003)
The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder (2002)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, by Stephen Sondheim, Bert Shevelove, and Larry Gelbart (2002)
The House of Blue Leaves, by John Guare (2002)
2001: A Dance Odyssey, a faculty-student dance concert (2001)
The Laramie Project, by Moisés Kaufman and Members of Tectonic Theater Project (2001)
Agamemnon, by Aeschylus (2001)
Signs of Life, by Joan Schenkar (2001)
Naga-Mandala: Play with a Cobra, by Girish Karnad (2000)
Weldon Rising, by Phyllis Nagy (2000)
View the Gallery of seasons produced on the Bruce Davis Theater main stage.
