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Drama
Over
the past nine years, the BFA Theatre Program has provided an academic
and training course in the study of dramatic literature and stage
production. Within a three-show season, members of the theatre ensemble,
The Franklin Players, have produced plays as diverse as Ionesco's Rhinoceros,
Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,
Molière's The School for Wives, and the Jones and
Schmidt musical The Fantasticks!. After a thorough study
of each selected play, students participate in all aspects of the
production series, as actors, directors, choreographers, set designers,
technicians, and stage managers. To support this study and training,
program director Dr. Pamela Turner provides her own expertise as
an academic and as a professional playwright-director, along with
the contributions of professional guest artists that have included
NYC playwright Andrew Ordover, musician Bryan Mercer, set designer
John Thigpen, and makeup artist Shawn McConathy. In 2005, The Franklin
Players placed second in the regional Georgia One-Act Play Competition,
and in 2006, took first-place in the sub-regional contest.
The Franklin Players
2007/2008 Season
Bunnicula by Deborah Howe,
James Howe, and Alan Daniel
Fall 2007 Play and Georgia One-Act Play Competition
There is a new suspicious-looking pet in the Monroe household. Beware the Hare! What is special about this funny bunny? Harold the Dog and Chester the Cat are set on a quest to find the truth!
Inherit the Wind by Jerome
Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Winter Play, February 26-28
This powerful classic drama is based on the Scopes "monkey trial" of the 1920s and is one of the most important legal confrontations of the 20th century.
Book of Murder by Ron
Cowen
Spring Play, April 15 & 16
Henry T. Aythecliff, a much married and once successful writer, now heavily in debt, summons his three ex-wives to his mansion, his plan being to extort a sizable amount of money from each of them. He has a secret meeting with each in turn, and when he is discovered murdered, the clues indicate that each of his wives could have done the deed—and had a strong motive to do so. Patiently and resourcefully, the young detective assigned to the case sifts through the ingeniously devised evidence—until, in a surprise ending, the truth is finally revealed, and the guilty party is apprehended.
Play Production History
