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List of Plays Performed at UW Oshkosh 1980-1989 List of Plays Performed at UW Oshkosh 1980-1989 The Robber Bridegroom You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown Book and Lyrics: Alfred Uhry Book, Music, and Lyrics: Clark Gesner Director: Don Burdick Director: Kathleen Wieting Performance dates: February 19-24, Performance dates: NoVember 20-23, 1980 1980 Look Back in Anger The Threepenny Opera Playwright: John Osborne Book and Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht Director: Randy Haal Director: Don Burdick Performance dates: March 18-22, Performance dates: February 12-14 & 1980 19-21, 1981 Medea Experiments in Puppetry Playwright: Euripides Director: Dorlis Grubidge Director: Dorlis Grubidge Performance dates: February 28 – Performance dates: April 19 – May 4, March 1, 1981 1980 Blithe Spirit Puppets, Possible & Impossible Playwright: Noel Coward Director: Dorlis Grubidge Director: Randy Haasl Performance dates: May 22-25, 1980 Performance dates: March 19-21 & 26-28, 1981 California Suite Playwright: Neil Simon The Fantasticks Director: Don Burdick Book and Lyrics: Tome Jones Performance dates: June 24-28, 1980 Director: Jeannie Muson Schweiss Performance dates: April 7-11, 1981 How the Other Half Loves Playwright: Alan Ayckbourn The Claude Kipnis Mime Company Director: Dorlis Grubidge Performance: April 12, 1981 Performance dates: October 9-11 & 16-18, 1980 Let Us Entertain You A puppet production The Madwoman of Chaillot Director: Dorlis Grubidege Playwright: Jean Giraudoux Performance: May 27-29, 1981 Director: Gloria Link Performance dates: October 30 – Side by Side by Sondheim NoVember 1 & NoVember 6-8, 1980 A music reVue from chimera Theatre Company Performance: October 2-3, 1981 Equus Winging It: Puppets That Fly Playwright: Peter Shaffer Director: Dorlis Grubidge Director: Liz Gray Performance dates: NoVember 17-20, Performance dates: October 22-24, 1982 29-31, 1981 Tartuffe Woyzeck Playwright: Moliere Playwright: Georg Buchner Director: Gloria Link Director: Don Burdick Performance dates: December 2-4 & Performance dates: NoVember 12-14 9-11, 1982 & 19-21, 1981 Very Good Eddie Beauty and the Beast Playwright: Guy Bolton Adapted by: Dorlis Grubidge Director: Don Burdick Director: Dorlis Grubidge Performance dates: February 17-19 & Performance dates: December 10-13, 24-26, 1983 1981 As You Like It Vanities Playwright: William Shakespeare Playwright: Jack Heifner Presented by: The National Director: Gloria Link Shakespeare Company Performance dates: February 4-6 & Performance dates: March 26, 1983 11-13, 1982 The General’s Tea Party The Torchbearers Playwright: Boris Vian Playwright: George Kelly Director: Dorlis Grubidge Director: Dorlis Grubidge Performance dates: April 14-16 & 21- Performance dates: March 4-6 & 11- 23, 1983 13, 1982 Inadmissible Evidence Celebration Playwright: John Osborne Playwright: Tom Jones and HarVey Director: James Walker Schmidt Performance dates: May 3-7, 1983 Director: Paul Calenberg Performance dates: April 27 – May 1, The Tavern 1982 Playwright: George M. Cohan Director: Gloria Link The Glass Menagerie Performance dates: October 20-22 & Playwright: Tennessee Williams 27-29, 1983 Director: Paul Calenberg Performance dates: October 21-13 & Kingdom Come 28-30, 1982 Performed by: The Milwaukee Repertory Theatre Performance dates: NoVember 4-5, 1983 Golliwhoppers Step On A Crack Playwright: Flora Atkin Playwright: Susan Zeder Director: Dorlis Grubidge Director: Don Jacobson Performance dates: NoVember 10-12, Performance Dates: December 5-8, 1983 1984 Tea and Sympathy Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Playwright: Robert Anderson Dream Coat Director: Elizabeth Hitchcock Playwright: Tim Rice and Andrew Performance dates: December 1-3 & Lloyd Webber 8-10, 1983 Director: Don Burdick Performance Dates: February 14-16, Dames at Sea 21-23, 1985 Book by: George Haimsohn and Robin Miller The Boys in the Band Director: Don Burdick Playwright: Mart Crowley Performance dates: February 16-18 & Director: Elizabeth D. Hitchcock 23-25, 1984 Performance dates: March 5-9, 1985 Deathtrap I am a Camera Playwright: Ira Levin Playwright: John Van Druten Director: Dorlis Grubidge Director: Gregory Triggs Performance dates: March 29-31 & Performance dates: April 11-13, 18- April 5-7, 1984 20, 1985 Say Goodnight, Gracie A Chekhov Evening Playwright: Ralph Pape Presented by: The Acting Company Director: Gregory Triggs Performance dates: September 24-25, Performance dates: May 1-5, 1984 1985 Pygmalion Extremities Playwright: George Bernard Shaw Playwright William Mastrosimsone Director: Dorlis Grubidge Director: Mark Zastrow Performance dates: October 18-20, Performance dates: October 10-12, 25-27, 1984 17-19 1985 Crimes of the Heart Fool For Love Playwright: Beth Henley Playwright: Sam Shepard Director: Gloria Link Director: Gloria Link Performance dates: NoVember 8-10, Performance dates NoVember 7-9, 14- 15-17, 1984 16, 1985 The Skin of Our Teeth Presented by: The Acting Company Performance dates: December 2, 1984 Ama and the White Crane I Love My Wife Playwright: Maureen O’Toole Playwright & lyrics: Michael Stewart Director: Dorlis Grubidge Director: Don Burdick Performance dates: December 4-7, Performance dates: February 19-21, 1985 26-28, 1987 The Pirates of Penzance The Riddle Machine Playwright: Gilbert and Sullivan Playwright: Beth Lambert Director: Don Burdick Director: Michelle Lehman Performance dates: February 20-22, Performance dates: April 1-4, 1987 27- March 1, 1986 The Male Animal Endgame Playwright: Elliot Nugent & James Playwright: Samuel Beckett Thurber Director: Kris Nielsen Director: Kathi Johnson Performance dates: April 1-5, 1986 Performance dates: April 23-25, April 30 – May 2, 1987 Bedroom Farce Playwright: Alan Ayckbourn The Foreigner Director: Dorlis Grubidge Playwright: Larry Shue Performance dates: April 24-26, Director: Peter Daane May1-3, 1986 Performance dates: October 22-24, 29-31, 1987 Brighton Beach Memoirs Playwright: Neil Simon Oedipus Rex Director: Gloria Link Playwright: Sophocles Performance dates: October 9-11, 16- Director: Gloria Link 18, 1986 Performance dates: NoVember 12-14, 19-21, 1987 Beyond Therapy Playwright: Christopher Durang Puppets Too! Director: Peter Daane Playwright: Performance dates: October 28- Director: Dorlis Grubidge NoVember 1, 1986 Performance dates: December 9-12, 1987 An Enemy of the People Playwright: Henrik Ibsen Little Shop of Horrors Director: Dorlis Grubidge Playwright & lyrics: Howard Ashman Performance dates: NoVember 13-15, Director: Don Burdick 20-22, 1986 Performance dates: February 18-20m 25-27, 1987 Romeo and Juliet Presented by: The National The Murder Room Shakespeare Company Playwright: Jack Sharkey Performance dates: December 5-6, Director: Julie Elsinger-Dommer 1986 Performance dates: April 5-9, 198 Friends “Master Harold”… and the Boys Playwright: Kobo Abe Playwright: Athol Fugard Director: Dorlis Grubidge Director: Gloria Link Performance dates: April 21-23, 28- Performance dates: March 30, 31, 30, 1988 April1, 6-8, 1989 Painting Churches Ride a Blue Horse Playwright: Tina Howe Playwright: Aurand Harris Director: Gloria Link & Dorlis Director: Dorlis Grubidge Grubidge Performance dates: April 26-29, 1989 Performance dates: June 28-30, 1988 The Gin Game Ripped Van Winkle Playwright: D.L. Coburn Presented by: San Francisco Mime Director: Dorlis Grubidge Troup Performance dates: Summer 1989 Performance Dates: October 1-2, 1988 Talley’s Folly Arms and the Man Playwright: Lanford Wilson Playwright: George Bernard Shaw Director: Don Burdick Director: Dorlis Grubidge Performance dates: Summer 1989 Performance dates: October 20-22, 27-29, 1988 She Stoops to Conquer or Mistakes of the Night Everyman Playwright: OliVer Goldsmith Playwright: (Modernized) Kate Franks Director: Gloria Link Director: Ted Krembs Performance dates: October 19-21, Performance dates: NoVember 8-12, 26-28, 1989 1988 The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet Strange Snow Presented by: Brian Bedford Playwright: Steve Metcalfe Performance dates: NoVember 8-9, Director: Jane Mary Verzal-Dix 1989 Performance dates: December 1-3, 8- 10, 1988 Rainbow Tales- Puppets Director: Dorlis Grubidge Quilters Performance dates: NoVember 15-18, Playwright: Molly Newman & Barbara 1989 Damashek Director: Don Burdick Angels Fall Performance dates: February 16-18, Playwright: Lanford Wilson 23-25, 1989 Director: Jeff Momsen Performance dates: NoVember 30, December 1-2, 7-9, 1989 .
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