YOUTH PROGRAM 2011-2012

Join us as we bring to life the magical world of the great turn of the 20th century inventors: Westinghouse, Edison, and Tesla, the fathers of electricity.

Of the three, Nikola Tesla was the greatest genius, but his lack of business sense doomed him to a life of poverty. He preferred the company of his beloved pet pigeons to the company of empire builders. Our play retells his story as it could have been, in a more perfect, just world.

We follow the three inventors and their contemporaries like Susan B. Anthony, Mary Astor and Andrew Carnegie, from childhood through a crisis that threatens the existence of life on earth.

Final Sharing : May 4, 12pm

Following the loss of his entire comedy improv troupe in a tragic, albeit audience-suggested, improvisation accident, Chicago comedian Alan Evans finds himself in a town called Nowhere. Some might say he’s come to the right place. Seeking solace and escape from his past, Evans never foresaw befriending Juliet the salesgirl at the department store Pen & Pencil counter, nor did he reckon on encountering Nowhere’s populace of quirky characters including Mr. Schwingle The Ridiculously Evil Mayor, Nyssa-Sandy The Sock-Obsessed Orphan Waif, Crazy Jim the Aqua phobic Championship Swimmer, The Department Store Manager and his Bossy Little Sidekick Italics, and of course Little Joey Robbles the 9-year old Giant Farmer Boy—oddball personalities Juliet is convinced may very well be characters in a play, and not a particularly good play at that.

Don't miss the world-premiere performances of
this new play, written & developed by the ensemble and led by Wayne Rawley ("Attack of the Killer Murder... of Death!" & others).

Performances:
Friday April 26 @ 7pm
Saturday April 27 @ 7pm
Sunday April 28 @ 2pm
Friday May 3 @ 7pm
Saturday May 4 @ 7pm

"What  do you mean? What are you talking about?!"

In this ensemble-generated production, we'll bring you into the world of dialect, speech
and communication-- and what might happen when communication goes wrong!
Compelling characters, scenes and stories explore this in an extraordinary and unique
theatrical production.

Performances:
Saturday, June 1 @ 2pm
Sunday, June 2 @ 7pm

"You awake in a dark room..." So begins the journey of John, trapped in a strange place with only voices to guide-- or perhaps mislead--him. A world premiere play written, directed, produced and performed by members of the Bathhouse Ensemble.

Performances:
Friday, June 14, 7pm
Saturday June 15,7pm Sunday June 16, 2pm

Our 2013 Senior Show! This "trivial comedy for serious people" is one of Oscar Wilde's most popular plays, complete with farce, witty dialogue, glittering characters, satire of manners and a happy ending.

Performances:
Friday June 21, 7pm
Saturday June 22, 7pm
Sunday June 23, 2pm
Friday June 28, 7pm
Saturday June 29, 2pm & 7pm

The classic tale of the first vampire, as told in high melodramatic style; plenty of blood, drama, and life-threatening monsters for everyone.

Performances:
Friday July 7, 7pm
Saturday July 8, 2pm & 7pm
Sunday July 9, 2pm

“If music be the food of love, play on!”

Yes, there’s a shipwreck, but the only magic in this play is the very human transformations of the delightful characters. Lovesick and lonely, they bumble around in the darkness of their dreams and desires until at last everyone - well, almost everyone - finds their heart’s desire.

Viola loves Orsino, who thinks he loves Olivia. Olivia thinks she cannot love at all, then thinks she loves Cesario who is really Viola, dressed as a man. Malvolio thinks he ought to be a gentleman, while the foolish Sir Andrew is one, but is no match for the Lady Olivia. Add in a mournful clown, a wily and witty maid, a swashbuckling brother, and you have a recipe for music, madness, mayhem, and merriment!

Performances:
Friday July 12, 7pm
Saturday July 13, 7pm
Sunday July 14, 2pm
Friday, July 19, 7pm
Saturday, July 20, 2pm & 7pm

Help! Prue’s little brother has been kidnapped by crows and flown into the Impassable
Wilderness! Join the rescue mission this summer in this youth performance based on the books by Colin Meloy.

Performances:
Friday July 26, 7pm
Saturday July 27, 2pm & 7pm
Sunday July 28, 2pm

Kaufman and Hart’s Pulitzer-Prize winning, delightfully wacky comedy brings families of opposite lifestyles together - with literally explosive results. Set in the Great Depression, the Sycamore family enjoys its eccentricities (including dancing, homemade fireworks, and discus-throwing) and doesn’t understand why their daughter, Alice, worries they might scare off her “normal” boyfriend, Tony. When the couple’s families meet over dinner, delightful answers emerge to the question “what is money - and life - for?”  

Performances:
Friday August 9, 7pm
Saturday August 10, 7pm
Sunday August 11, 2pm
Friday August 16, 7pm
Saturday August 17, 2pm & 7pm

Tartuffe is an oily con-man pretending to be overly virtuous. He has Lord Orgon in his grasp, but Orgon's family is resisting as best they all can -- from his long-suffering wife Elmire, to his engaged daughter Mariane who might just have to marry Tartuffe instead, to the witty maid Dorine. This classic French farce exposes Tartuffe, and our society, with hilarious results.

Performances:
Friday August 9, 7pm
Saturday August 10, 7pm
Sunday August 11, 2pm
Friday August 16, 7pm
Saturday August 17, 2pm & 7pm

Excuse me, are we discussing bribes? Because if we’re discussing bribes, I freely admit I rule in favor of whatever side offers me the biggest one, but I never take money, I always take it in farm animals and game.— Judge
A bribe is a bribe. — Mayor
Not if you eat it. — Judge
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Russia’s greatest comedy! When the locals in a small town learn that an undercover government inspector is coming for a surprise visit, an unfortunate case of mistaken identity sends the village spiraling into a world of panic and greed. Witty, smart and wildly satirical, The Government Inspector exposes the corruption of a provincial town with biting hilarity.

Performances:
Friday August 2, 7pm
Saturday August 3, 2pm & 7pm
Sunday August 4, 2pm

Slapstick and mistaken identity meet crafty puns and sharp word play in this farce about two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated at birth. We’re uprooting this Shakespearean comedy from timeless Greece and bringing it across the ocean to Appalachia!

Performances:
Friday August 23, 7pm
Saturday August 24, 2pm & 7pm
Sunday August 25, 2pm