The Domino Players
The Domino Players, Albright College's resident theatre company, is comprised of both students and faculty. The group engages in some of the most stylistic, cutting-edge, avant-garde performances of both contemporary and traditional theatre ever created. Click here to contact the Domino Players. To purchase tickets, please call the Albright Theatre Box Office at 610-921-7547.
2011-2012 Season:
- Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang – EE
Thursday, September 15 – Sunday, September 18
All performances, 8 p.m., except Sunday matinee, 2:30 p.m., Wachovia Theatre
A Domino Players Production. Directed by Shannon Rowe ’12. Call the box office at (610) 921-7547 for prices/tickets.
Helen and John, a rather dim-witted but well-meaning couple, have just brought home their new baby named Daisy. Trouble is, Daisy’s a boy. One child-rearing calamity piles on top of another as Daisy grows into a polite, but rather confused, young man. Will Daisy avoid making the same mistakes when it is his turn to be a parent? Nobody said parenthood was going to be easy, or this funny!
Thursday, September 15, Free Talkback & Reception following performance
Sunday, September 18, 1 – 2:30 p.m., Theatre Luncheon, $25 per person - FF
- Arcadia by Tom Stoppard – EE, SC
October 28 – 30 & November 3 – 5
all performances, 8 p.m., except Sunday matinee, 2:30 p.m., Wachovia Theatre
A Domino Players production. Directed by Jeffrey Lentz. Call the box office at (610) 921-7547 for prices/tickets.
In April 1809 at a stately home in Derbyshire, Thomasina, a gifted pupil proposes a startling scientific theory beyond her comprehension, while all around her the adults, including her tutor Septimus, are preoccupied with secret desires, illicit passions and professional rivalries. Two hundred years later, academic adversaries Hannah and Bernard, with the help of Thomasina’s descendants, are busy in the same room piecing together puzzling clues, recalling those events of 1809 in their quest for an increasingly elusive truth. Part thriller, part romance, part science lesson, this widely acclaimed play tackles the ongoing human struggle between our unquenchable thirst for knowledge, our unremitting quest for fame, and our unrequited desire for love.
Friday, October 28, Free Talkback & Reception following performance
Saturday, October 29, 10:30 p.m., $12 per person, Alumni After-Party, Freedman Gallery
Sponsored by the Alumni Association as part of Homecoming Weekend. Party in the gallery with cast and crew as you ponder and discuss art, history, science, life, and love just like the characters in Arcadia. Photography from Greta Brubaker and Magnum Photographers who captured 9-11 images will be on display.
Sunday, October 30, 1 – 2:30 p.m., Theatre Luncheon, $25 per person
Monday, November 7, 7 – 8:15 p.m., Panel Symposium – EE
- 24-Hour Theatre Project – G&G
Sunday, November 20, 8 p.m., Wachovia Theatre
The Domino Players take on the daunting task of creating, casting, rehearsing, staging, and performing a new work, all in a single day’s time. Can they rise to the challenge or will they fall like real dominos?
- On the Verge, by Eric Overmyer – EE, SC
February 17 – 19 & 23 – 25
all performances, 8 p.m., except Sunday matinee, 2:30 p.m., Wachovia Theatre
A Domino Players production. Directed by Julia Matthews. Call the box office at (610) 921-7547 for prices/tickets.
At the end of the 19th-century, three intrepid lady explorers set out for Terra Incognita, equipped with pith helmets and journals in which to record their discoveries. As they bushwhack and ice-axe their way across the unknown, they begin to get glimmerings of a new civilization: but what is meant by Cool Whip? Will they meet the elusive Mr. Coffee? Little by little the ladies discover that they are trekking into the future, a place mapped with a whole new vocabulary. Eric Overmyer’s whimsical comedy is full of surprises. Look out for the Mighty Silurian, and keep your eyes peeled for Mrs. Butterworth.
Friday, February 17, Free Talkback & Reception following performance
Sunday, February 19, 1 – 2:30 p.m., Theatre Luncheon, $25 per person
- A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams– EE
April 20 – 22 & 26 – 28
all performances, 8 p.m., except Sunday matinee, 2:30 p.m., Wachovia Theatre
A Domino Players production. Directed by Jeffrey Lentz. Call the box office at (610) 921-7547 for prices/tickets. For mature audiences only.
One of the great American plays of the 20th century, Williams’ Pulitzer-Prize winning drama is ignited as Blanche Dubois, a fading southern belle, unexpectedly appears at the door of her younger sister, Stella, in the steamy French Quarter of New Orleans, with the news that their family plantation, Belle Reve, is lost. The shock gives way to suspicion as Stella’s brutish husband, Stanley Kowalski, engages Blanche in a series of volatile confrontations to ferret out the truth. As Blanche’s sordid past begins to catch up with her, she begins a tragic descent into madness that sets the stage for the most brutal confrontation of all.
Friday, April 20, Free Talkback & Reception following performance (186218)
Saturday, April 21, 10:00 p.m., $12 per person, Alumni After-Party, Freedman Gallery Sculpture Court
Sponsored by the Alumni Association. Meander down to the exclusive “Blanche’s Bodega” and heat up the night over drinks and steamy conversations with cast and crew. Get your fortune told, enjoy some jazz music, and take a spin to some zydeco rhythms. Stella!
Sunday, April 22, 1 – 2:30 p.m., Theatre Luncheon, $25 per person
Monday, April 23, 7 – 8:15 p.m., Panel Symposium – EE
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