Heart of a Dog

Adapted by Frank Galati from Mikhail Bugakov
Directed by Judy Navas
November 14-22, 2008 in the Evert B. Person Theatre

Heart of A Dog is a very imaginative Sci-Fi comedy written just after the Russian Revolution. 

Professor Preobrajansky, an innovative medical practitioner who specializes in sexual rejuvenation (by organ implantation) battles with the management committee of his apartment house —who want the Professor to give up some of his many rooms. But when the professor takes in a stray dog, Sharik, and transplants human testes and a pituitary gland into his scrawny body, his troubles begin to multiply. Sharik not only learns to walk upright and talk, but becomes "Comrade Sharikov," the head of the Moscow Communal Property Administration in charge of exterminating homeless cats. He turns the life in the professor's house into a nightmare until the professor reverses the procedure.

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Fall Dance Concert

Original Student Dance Compositions
Directed by Kristen Daley
December 4-7, 2008 in the PE 1 Dance Studio

Delight and be dazzled at the annual fall showcase of new works presented by the SSU Dance Ensemble.

Under the direction of SSU dance faculty Kristen Daley, the student-generated show acknowledges the creative talent and kinesthetic curiosity of our future dance artists. Come experience and revel in the contagious excitement of dance—you will not be disappointed.

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The Pirates of Penzance

By Gilbert & Sullivan
Musical Direction by Lynne Morrow
Stage Direction by Deborah Eubanks
February 20-March 1, 2009 in the Evert B. Person Theatre

In this comic operetta, Frederic was as a child apprenticed to a band of tender-hearted, orphaned pirates by his nurse who, being hard of hearing, had mistaken her master's instructions to apprentice the boy to a pilot. Frederic, upon completing his 21st year, rejoices that he has fulfilled his indentures and is now free to return to respectable society. But it turns out that he was born on February 29 in leap year, and he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday. By the end of the opera, the pirates, a Major General who knows nothing of military strategy, his large family of beautiful but unwed daughters, and the timid constabulary all contribute to a cacophony that can be silenced only by Queen Victoria's name.

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Fat Pig

By Neil LaBute
Directed by Tori Truss
April 3-11, 2009 in the Evert B. Person Theatre

A man named Tom hits it off with a woman named Helen, who happens to be a touch large.

This doesn’t sit well with Tom’s friends, Carter and Jeannie, who are sometimes sage, sometimes stupid, and almost always nasty. How much has our relentless pursuit of beauty turned us into an uglier species? Does love need society’s blessing to be complete?
-New York Magazine, David Amsden, Nov 22, 2004

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Spring Dance Concert

Directed by Kristen Daley and Nancy Lyons
May 1-9, 2009 in the Evert B. Person Theatre

Spirited dancing by SSU Dance Ensemble and stunning choreography by critically-acclaimed guest artists from the San Francisco Bay Area and resident dance faculty Kristen Daley and Nancy Lyons!  Enjoy a kinetic feast...performances that will move you, delight you, invite you, excite you... you will want to go out of the theatre, dancing with the stars in your eyes. 

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