Tarrant County College Northeast Playhouse announces 2007-2008 season

by Shawn Parikh

The Northeast Campus of Tarrant County College has recently announced the shows for their 2007-2008 season:

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from October 17-20 at 8:00 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2:00 p.m. In the play, George and Martha invite a new professor and his wife to their house after a party. Martha is the daughter of the president of a university where George is a history professor. Nick (who is never addressed or introduced by name) is a biology professor who Martha thinks teaches math, and Honey is his mousy, brandy-abusing wife. Once at home, Martha and George continue drinking and engage in relentless, scathing verbal and sometimes physical abuse in front of Nick and Honey. Nick and Honey are simultaneously fascinated and embarrassed. They stay even though the abuse turns periodically towards them as well.
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged from November 28 - December 1, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2:00 p.m. A parody of the plays written by William Shakespeare with all of them being performed during the show by only three actors. Typically, the actors use their real names and play themselves rather than certain characters. The fourth wall is nonexistent in the performance with the actors speaking directly to the audience during much of the play, and some scenes involve audience participation.
• The Vagina Monologues, a benefit for Battered Women's Shelter of Ft. Worth, on February 9 & 10 at 8:00 p.m. The Vagina Monologues is made up of a varying number of monologues read by a varying number of women. Every monologue somehow relates to the vagina, be it through sex, love, rape, menstruation, mutilation, masturbation, birth, orgasm, the variety of names for the vagina, or simply as a physical aspect of the female body. A recurring theme throughout the piece is the vagina as a tool of female empowerment, and the ultimate embodiment of individuality.
• As I Lay Dying from March 5-8, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2:00 p.m. Based on the book by William Faulkner. The book is told in stream of consciousness style by 15 different narrators in 59 chapters. It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest - noble or selfish - to honor her wish to be buried in the town of Jefferson.
• Annie Get Your Gun from April 30 - May 3 at 8:00 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2:00 p.m. When a traveling Wild West show visits her town, Annie Oakley enters a shooting contest, wins, and is asked to join the show. She has fallen in love with the star of the show, Frank Butler, and agrees to join, although she has no idea what "show business" is--she is informed with the classic song, "There's No Business Like Show Business". Over the course of the musical, Frank, although insisting that the girl he wants will "wear satin..and smell of cologne" ("The Girl That I Marry"), becomes enamored of the tomboyish Annie. Unfortunately, his ego is bruised and he becomes jealous when Annie becomes a star, and he walks out on her.

Ticket prices free to all TCC students and faculty, $3 for students and senior citizens 65 or over, and $5 for the general public. All shows are reserved seating and tickets can be reserved by calling the Box Office at 817-515-6687 or by e-mail at neplayhouse@tccd.edu.