UW Oshkosh Theatre 2017-2018 Season

Seascape by Edward Albee

Directed by Jane Purse-Wiedenhoeft
Oct. 5 – 7, 7:30 PM
Oct. 8, 2 PM

Enjoying a picnic lunch on a beach is a relaxing past time but married couple, Nancy and
Charlie, are struggling with making decisions about their next stage of life. Little do they know
that they are about to get the surprise of their lives! Unexpected and intriguing guests interrupt
this tranquil setting and the world is turned upside down. Through a series of absurd events,
Nancy and Charlie learn to value their years of marriage and to appreciate a future that promises
new possibilities for moving forward!

The Fantasticks
Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones
Music by Harvey Schmidt
Based on Les Romanesques by Edmond Rostand
Directed by Merlaine Angwall
Nov. 16 – 18, 7:30 PM
Nov. 19, 2 PM

Young neighbors, Luisa and Matt, drenched in moonlight, fall in love atop their dividing wall.
But their feuding fathers are determined to keep them apart. When bandits threaten Luisa, Matt
heroically saves her. Their fathers rejoice and they all lived happily ever after. Not quite.
Moonlight is not forever. Matt and Luis quibble about each other’s imperfections and drift apart.
In their separate journeys, they discover their own identities and each other. Their love, although
imperfect and sometimes painful, is true.
 Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Richard Kalinoski
Feb. 15 – 17, 2018, 7:30 PM
Feb. 18, 2018, 2 PM

Becca and Howie Corbett’s idyllic family life is shattered. The automobile death of their four-
year old son tears at the fabric of love and intimacy between them. Becca and Howie express
their mutual pain differently. Howie is accusatory and Becca is caustically bitter. As Becca
mourns, she encounters Jason, the teenage driver, who continually asks for forgiveness.
Rejecting self-help manuals, support groups, and her mother’s advice, Becca discovers the path
of forgiveness leads not to a parallel universe but to hope.

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Directed by Merlaine Angwall
April 26 – April 28, 2018, 7:30 PM
April 29, 2018, 2 PM

A violent storm shipwrecks King Alonso, his son, Ferdinand, and Duke Antonio on an island,
where Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, lives with his daughter, Miranda, and his servants,
the spirit Ariel and the resentful Caliban. Ferdinand falls in love with Miranda immediately.
Prospero tests the king’s son’s true intentions. Beset by intrigue on all sides, Prospero musters
all of his powers and battles the villains to regain his rightful status.