Hotel Cassiopeia

by Charles L. Mee, Jr. and directed by Chris Berchild

Performances will be September 24 - 27, 2008

Hotel Cassiopeia, written by Charles Mee and directed by Dr. Christopher

Berchild, will be performed by the ISU Theater Department. Performances

begin Wednesday, September 24 at 7:30 pm and continue September 25, 26,

and 27th in the New Theater. The American artist Joseph Cornell made

wooden boxes filled with pocket watches, coiled springs, maps of the

stars, a forest of thimbles, parrots, seashells, broken glass,

children's alphabet blocks, brightly colored balls, soap bubbles,

whales' teeth, a colored lithograph of the moon in the night sky, and

star fish. How would it be if those boxes could speak? About art, about

America, about compassion and longing and loneliness and heartbreak. As

Cornell’s creations interact with him, the audience is forced to ask

the question: Does the man make the art or does the art make the man?

Tickets are $7 for the general public. Admission is free to ISU students

with ID. The New Theater box office is open during the week of

performances from Noon-4:30 on weekdays. It will also open one hour

before showtime. For more information, call the Publicity Office a 812 237-3334.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by Julie Dixon

Performances will be November 12 – 15.

Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare and adapted and

directed by Julie Dixon, will be performed by the Indiana State

University Department of Theater. Performances begin Wednesday, November

12 at 7:30 pm and continue November 13, 14, and 15 in the New Theater.

Arguably Shakespeare's best known work, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

is about two teenage star-crossed lovers whose untimely deaths

ultimately unite their feuding households. ISU Theater takes this

beloved story and adds an exciting twist. In a bold new adaptation, we

are taken back to 1955, where four teenage girls sneak into a classroom

at their New England boarding school to drink, smoke, and rebel against

their oppressive world. When one of them suggests they read Romeo and

Juliet, the girls escape their cold reality into a world of strife,

violence, rebellion, and love. As the line between reality and fantasy

begins to blur, what's to stop the girls from going too far?

Tickets are $7 for the general public. Admission is free to ISU

students with ID. The New Theater box office is open during the week of

performances from Noon-4:30 on weekdays. It will also open one hour

before showtime. For more information, call the Publicity Office at

(812) 237-3334.