WILLPOWER!
Play Descriptions

The Arts Institute of Montgomery College
in conjunction with the Department of Speech, Dance, and Theatre and the Department of English Composition, Literature, and Professional Writing

WILLPOWER!
A weeklong festival of master classes, performances, lectures, and workshops celebrating the world of William Shakespeare!!!

Featuring The American Shakespeare Center's 2008/2009

Comedy of Errors
Montgomery College (Rockville),
Theatre Arts Arena March 25, 2009 ·
7:30pm-10:00pm
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them... Written by Kathy Li
~ from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085351/plotsummary

Hamlet
Montgomery College (Rockville),
Theatre Arts Arena March 26, 2009 ·
7:30pm-10:00pm
Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother's wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot--the most complicated and most interesting in all literature--he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the "prime minister," love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother's. Written by John Brosseau {brossj5683@aol.com}
~ from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477/plotsummary

 

A L L E V E N T S A R E F R E E T O T H E P U B L I C
For more information concerning WILLPOWER! or Montgomery College's Theatre Program (Rockville)
please visit http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/spdnth/theatre/will%20power.htm or call 240.567.4001
For persons requiring special accommodations
please visit www.montgomerycollege.edu or call 240.567.5058
Support for WILLPOWER was generously provided by The Webber Family Foundation and the Maryland Humanities Council. Additional support was provided by the Fine, Performing, and Visual Arts and the Humanities