Roosevelt High School Theatre Department ǀ Main Stage & Black Box Theatres

Roosevelt Theatre Department 2008-2009 Theatrical Season

Wednesday, September 17th @ 6 pm: Roosevelt’s ROUGHRIDER RUCKUS Comedy and Improvisation Night where the points are fake, but the laughs are real!

Friday, November 14th @ 7 pm

Talent Show

Thursday - Saturday, December 4-6 @ 7 pm

David and Lisa by James Reach
Adapted from the book by Theodore Isaac Rubin, screenplay by Eleanor Perry

A two act play performed in one act produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
The story retells the strange, appealing, and utterly fascinating story of the two mentally-disturbed adolescents: David, the only song of wealthy parents, over-protected by a dominating mother, who is tortured by his mania against being touched; and Lisa, the waif who has never known parental love, who has developed a split personality and is in effect two different girls, one of whom will speak only in childish rhymes and insists upon being spoken to in the same manner. The play follows them during one term at Berkley School through exhilarating progress and depressing retrogression.

Thursday, February 5th @ 7 pm

ACTing Showcase - Scenes, songs, monologues, and pantomimes presented in preparation for the NW Regional Acting Competition; in conjunction with the music department who will perform and art department who will showcase student work, as well.

Thursday-Saturday, March 12th-14th @ 7 pm

See How They Run
A Hilarious British Farce by Philip King

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Set during World War II, this hilarious British farce is a classic English comedy not to be missed. The lead character is Penelope Toop, former actress and now wife of the local vicar, The Rev. Lionel Toop. Miss Skillon, a churchgoer of the parish and a scold, arrives on bicycle to gossip with the vicar and to complain about the latest 'outrages' that Penelope has caused. The vicar then leaves for the night, and an old friend of Penelope's, Lance-Corporal Clive Winton, stops by on a quick visit. In order to dodge army regulations, he changes from his uniform into Lionel's second-best suit, complete with a clerical 'dog-collar' in order to see a production of "Private Lives" (a Noël Coward play in which they had appeared together in their acting days), while pretending to be the visiting vicar Arthur Humphrey who is due to preach the Sunday sermon the next day. Just before they set out, Penelope and Clive re-enact one of their scenes from "Private Lives" and manage to knock Miss Skillon (who has come back unannounced) unconscious. Miss Skillon, wrongly thinking she has seen Lionel fighting with Penelope, gets drunk on a bottle of cooking sherry and Ida, the Toop’s Cockney maid, hides her in the broom cupboard. Then Toop, arriving back, is taken prisoner by an escaping German prisoner-of-war from a nearby camp, who takes his clerical clothes as a disguise. To add to the confusion, both the real Humphrey, and Penelope's uncle, The Bishop of Lax, unexpectedly show up early. Chaos quickly ensues, culminating in a cycle of running figures, most dressed as clergy.

Friday, April 16th @ 4 pm & Saturday, April 17th @ 2 & 4 pm

Don't Count Your Chickens Until They Cry Wolf

Thursday, May 21st @ 7 pm

Senior Shorts The Good Doctor, Act Two, by Neil Simon

Friday, May 29th & Saturday May 30 @ 7 pm

What Do You See? Oregon Children's Theatre collaborative project


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