This week, the Department of Theatre opens with two repertory productions focused on timely issues that are found in today’s headlines and faced by today’s youth. Good Kids by Naomi Iizuka, directed by James Gardner, and Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead by Bert V. Royal, directed by Nanci Ruby, begin an alternating schedule October 11 through October 22 in the Studio Theatre (MC 149).

Tickets are available at chapman.edu/tickets or by calling the College of Performing Arts box office hotline: (714) 997-6624

GOOD KIDS
by Naomi Iizuka
Directed by James Gardner

October 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22

Something happened to Chloe after that party last Saturday night. Something she says she can’t remember. Something everybody is talking about. Set at a Mid-western high school, in a world of Facebook and Twitter, smartphones and YouTube, Good Kids explores a casual sexual encounter gone wrong and its very public aftermath. Who’s telling the truth? Whose version of the story do you believe? And what does that say about you?

NOTE:  This production contains explicit discussion of and graphic reference to sexual and interpersonal violence, and drug and alcohol abuse.

Studio Theatre, Moulton Hall, Room 149
7:30pm – Oct. 11, 13, 16, 19, 21 & 22
2:00pm – Oct. 15
$20 general admission; $15 senior citizens, alumni and non-Chapman students

Join us after the show on October 21 for an engaging talkback on themes presented in this production!

MODERATOR:  Dr. Jocelyn Buckner, Asst. Professor, College of Performing Arts, Dept. of Theatre

 

Dog Sees God:  Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
by Bert V. Royal
Directed by Nanci Ruby

October 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22

In this poignant, off-beat and often humorous, “unauthorized parody,” Dog Sees God re-imagines characters from the popular comic strip Peanuts as teenagers. Drug use, suicide, eating disorders, teen violence, rebellion, sexual relations and identity collide and careen toward an ending that’s both haunting and hopeful.

comedy; mature subject matter 

Studio Theatre, Moulton Hall, Room 149
7:30pm – Oct. 12, 14, 15, 18, & 20
2:00pm – Oct. 16 & 22
$20 general admission; $15 senior citizens, alumni and non-Chapman students

Join us immediately performances on October 12, 18, and 20 for an engaging discussion of the issues and themes in Dog Sees God.

MODERATOR:  Dr. Jocelyn Buckner, Asst. Professor, College of Performing Arts, Dept. of Theatre

PANELISTS:

October 12 — Dr. Jeanne Walker, Director, Student Psychological Counseling Services; Rev. Dr. Gail Stearns, Dean of the Wallace All Faiths Chapel, Assoc. Professor of Religious Studies, Fish Interfaith Center; and Susanna Branch, Grants and Contracts Administrator, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Administration

October 18 —   Dr. Ian Barnard, Assoc. Professor, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Dept. of English; Rev. Nancy Brink, Director of Church Relations, Wilkinson College of Arts, Dept. of Religious Studies

October 20 —  Dr. Kris De Pedro, Assistant Professor, College of Educational Studies; Dr. Nina Lenoir, Professor, Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education, CoPA, Dept. of Theatre; Susanna Branch, Grants and Contracts Administrator, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Administration