Main Stage Archive: 1989 through 2005

The Serpent
Author: Jean-Claude van Itallie
Directors: Joanne Klein & Mark A. Rhoda

“Dancing 2004, a student-faculty dance concert”
Conceived & directed by: Meredith Taylor

The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild
Author: Paul Zindel
Director: Alexis Hartwick (an SMP main stage production)

“The Road to Kyoto!, a kabuki-style comedy in English”
Author: Ikku Jippensha (based on his book The Shank’s Mare, or Hizakurige)
Director: Holly A. Blumner

2003-2004

The Miser
Author: Molière
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

Old Times
Author: Harold Pinter
Director: Mark A. Rhoda

Don Juan Comes Back from the War
Author: Ödön von Horváth
Director: Joanne Klein

900 Dreams
Written and directed by: Sharon A. Wyrrick

2002-2003

The Circus of the Possibilitarians
Author: Peter Schumann & Bread and Puppet Theater
Director: Peter Schumann

The Skin of Our Teeth
Author: Thornton Wilder
Director: Merideth Taylor

Delicious Poison (Busu), Tricked by a Rhythm (Yokiboe) – classical Japanese kyôgen;
“Black Tuesday” – contemporary noh-style play written by SMCM theater students in tribute to those affected by the events of 9/11
Director: Holly A. Blumner

Love’s Labours Lost
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

2001-2002

The Laramie Project
Author: Moisés Kaufman and Members of Tectonic Theater Project
Director: Joanne Klein

“2001: A Dance Odyssey, a student-faculty dance concert”
Conceived & directed by: Merideth Taylor

The House of Blue Leaves
Author: John Guare
Director: Mark A. Rhoda

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Author: Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics), Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart (book)
Director: Lofty Durham, with musical direction by Jeffrey Silberschlag

Our Country’s Good (reprise)
Author: Timberlake Wertenbaker
Director: Drew Kahl (guest artist)

Naga-Mandala: Play with a Cobra
Author: Girish Karnad
Director: Merideth Taylor

Signs of Life
Author: Joan Schenkar
Director: Alana Smith (an SMP main stage production)

Agamemnon
Author: Aeschylus
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

1999-2000

“A Shakespeare Potpourri”
Conceived & directed by: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

“Crossroads: On Common Ground,” an original collaborative performance work
Conceived & directed by: Merideth Taylor & Andre Perry

Weldon Rising
Author: Phyllis Nagy
Director: Joanne Klein

Our Country’s Good
Author: Timberlake Wertenbaker
Director: Drew Kahl (guest artist)

1998-1999

Widows
Author: Ariel Dorfman, in collaboration with Tony Kushner
Director: Joanne Klein, with an original score by SMCM student Brian J. Gundersdorf

“SMC Dance ’98, a student-faculty dance concert”
Conceived & directed by: Merideth Taylor

On the Third Day (a passion play)
Author: Joseph Kline
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

Lysistra / Marisol, two plays in rep
Author: Aristophanes / Jose Rivera
Director: Amy Couchoud / Benjamin Wyskida

1997-1998

Blood Brothers
Author: Willy Russell (music, lyric, & book)
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

Ardèle
Author: Jean Anouilh
Director: Joanne Klein

The America Play
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Director: A. Lorraine Robinson (guest artist)

FOB
Author: David Henry Hwang
Director: Merideth Taylor

Julius Caesar
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

In the Burning Darkness
Author: Antonio Buero-Vallejo
Director: Sharon A. Wyrrick (guest artist)

The One-Act Festival, inc. “Soothsayer in Grey” (Vincent Rozanskas), “The Whole Shebang” (Rich Orloff)

Angels in America: Part I: Millennium Approaches
Author: Tony Kushner
Director: Joanne Klein

1995-1996

Happy End
Author: Elisabeth Hauptmann (book), Bertolt Brecht (lyrics), Kurt Weill (music)
Director: Mark A. Rhoda, with musical direction by Larry Vote

“SMC Dance ’95”
Conceived & directed by: Merideth Taylor

In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe / Etta Jenks, two plays in repertory
Author: Eric Overmyer / Marlane G. Meyer
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo / Joanne Klein

1994-1995

Tartuffe
Author: Molière
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

fefu and her friends
Author: Maria Irene Fornes
Director: Joanne Klein

The Physicists
Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt
Director: Mark A. Rhoda

“The Bigger Picture, a sequel”
Conceived & directed by: Merideth Taylor

1993-1994

The Skin of Our Teeth
Author: Thornton Wilder
Director: Merideth Taylor

Cloud Nine
Author: Caryl Churchill
Director: Joanne Klein

The One-Act Festival, inc. A Tumba Abierta (Open Graves, Alfonso Vallejo), “The Seven Days of Ruth” (Walter J.J. Bartas), “Shrinks” (Steve Wannall), “Heads Against the Wall” (Kimberly Owens)

“Waterways: a butoh performance”
Conceived & directed by: Joan Laage (guest artist)

A Stampede of Zebras
Author: Robert G. Martin
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

Execution of Justice
Author: Emily Mann
Director: Joanne Klein

“In My Time”
Author: Merideth Taylor (adapted from In My Time When I Was Coming Along, by Andrea Hammer)
Director: Merideth Taylor

Macbeth
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

1991-1992

The Colored Museum
Author: George C. Wolfe
Director: Derek Anson Jones

She Stoops to Conquer
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Director: Merideth Taylor

Reckless
Author: Craig Lucas
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

The Threepenny Opera
Author: Bertolt Brecht (book & lyrics),Kurt Weill (music)
Director: Joanne Klein, with musical direction by Larry Vote

1990-1991

Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

The Crucible
Author: Arthur Miller
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

The One-Act Festival, inc. Ohio Impromptu (Samuel Beckett), A Need for Brussel Sprouts (Murray Schisgal), “Lamia” (Stephen Fedasz & Jason Ellis), Titanic (Christopher Durang), Silence (Harold Pinter), and “The Big Picture” (Merideth Taylor)

As Is
Author: William M. Hoffman
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

The Song of the Lusitanian Bogey
Author: Peter Weiss
Director: Joanne Klein

1989-1990

Twelfth Night
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
Author: Christopher Durang
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo

Medea: A Noh Cycle Based on the Greek Myth
Author: Carol Sorgenfrei
Director: Joanne Klein

The Dining Room
Author: A.R. Gurney, Jr.
Director: Joanne Klein

Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Michael Ellis-Tolaydo