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PRODUCTION HISTORY OF THE TTU TECH PLAYERS

Under the direction of Mark H. Creter (1992-present)

2005-2006 – 51st SEASON
Fall 2005         Raised in Captivity by Nicky Silver
Winter 2006    Winterfest 2006-Four Evenings of One-Acts (Student Directed)
Spring 2006     Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings

2004-2005 – 50th SEASON
Fall 2004         Equus by Peter Shaffer (guest director, Matthew Bassett)
Winter 2005    V-Day Tennessee Tech 2005
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensle
Spring 2005     Servant of Two Masters Carlo Goldoni

2003-2004 – 49th SEASON
Fall 2003         Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling        
Winter 2004    Play It Again, Sam by Woody Allen (student director, Sean Dietz)
Spring 2004     A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

2002-2003 – 48th SEASON
Fall 2002         Betty’s Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang
Winter 2003    Closer by Patrick Marber (student director, Matthew Bassett)
Winter 2003    V-Day Tennessee Tech 2003
                       The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (student director, Monica Fields)
Spring 2003     Shakespeare’s R & J by Joe Calarco

2001-2002 – 47th SEASON
Fall 2001         Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Fall 2001         Hospitality Suite (student director, Robert Wheeler)
Winter 2002    How I Learned To Drive by Paula Vogel
Winter 2002    V-Day Tennessee Tech 2002-
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (student director, Lindsey Hines)
Spring 2002     Lysistrata by Aristophanes

2000-2001 – 46th SEASON
Fall 2000         Largo Desolato (student director, Daniel Ostrander)
Fall 2000         Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Winter 2001    V-Day Tennessee Tech 2001
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
Winter 2001    Winterfest-Three Evenings of One-Acts (Student Directed)
Spring 2001     Fools by Neil Simon

1999-2000 – 45th SEASON
Fall 1999         Little Footsteps (student director, Charles Long)
Fall 1999         Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Winter 2000    Heathen Valley by Romulus Linney
Spring 2000     I Hate Hamlet by Paul Rudnick

1998-1999 – 44th SEASON
Fall 1998         Psycho Beach Party  by Charles Busch
Winter 1999    Elephant Man by Bernard Pommerance
Spring 1999    Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesserling

1997-1998 - 43rd SEASON
Fall 1997         The Little Shop of Horrors by Howard Ashman, Alan Menken
Winter 1998    Pterodactyls by Nicky Silver
Spring 1998    Tartuffe by Moliere

1996-1997 – 42nd SEASON
Fall 1996         The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Willaims
Fall 1996         The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter (student director, Scott Strahan)
Winter 1997    Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley
(student director, Scott Strahan)
Winter 1997    Keely and Du by Jane Martin
Spring 1997     A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

1995-1996 – 41st SEASON
Fall 1995         A Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking (student director, Matt Waller)
Fall 1995        True West by Sam Shepard
Winter 1996   KLOP (guest faculty director, Bob Clougherty)
Spring 1996   The Nerd by Larry Shue

1994-1995 – 40th SEASON
Fall 1994         Antigone by Sophocles
Winter 1995    Talking With . . . by Jane Martin
Spring 1995     One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman

1993-1994 – 39th SEASON (The renovated Backdoor Playhouse reopens in the Spring)
Fall 1993         The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
                        (produced in cooperation with the Wesley Players at the Arena Theatre)
Spring 1994     The Diviners by Jim Leonard, Jr.

1992-1993 – 38th SEASON – Mark H. Creter takes over the Theatre program.  
Fall 1992         Ah, Eurydice!  (performed at the Wesley Arena Theatre)
Winter 1993    The Life of Python (student director, Donnie Thomas)
Spring 1993     Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon(performed at the Wesley Arena Theatre)

Under the direction of Daniel Haughey (1989-1992)

1990-1991 – 36th SEASON (Backdoor Playhouse closed for renovation at season’s end)
Story Theatre (revival) by Paul Sills
An Evening of Christmas Prose, Poetry and Drama
The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco
The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco

1989-1990 – 35th SEASON
Story Theatre by Paul Sills
Studio Scenes
Happiness is a Red-Headed Cheerleader
Trouble in the Works

Hello Out There

Interview
The Shadow Box
Laundry and Bourbon by James McClure
Chamber Music by Arthur Kopit
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee

Under the direction of Michael Birdwell, Bettey Kash
and Ben Harville (1980-1989)
1988-1989 – 34th SEASON
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Story Theatre by Paul Sills
Ah, Wilderness by Eugene O’Neill
One-Acts

American Dream by Edward Albee

Happy Journey from Camden to Trenton by

Sandbox by Edward Albee

1987-1988 – 33rd SEASON

Love, My Name is Will by William Shakespeare

Sister Mary Ignatious Explains It All For You by Christopher Durang

Whore of Mensa by Woody Allen, adapted by Michael Birdwell

Insignificance by Terry Johnson

1986-1987 – 32nd SEASON
Buried Childby Sam Shepard
Duck Variations by David Mamet
End of the World With Symposium to Follow by Arthur Kopit

1985-1986 – 31st SEASON
Death by Woody Allen
Buried Child by Sam Shepard

1984-1985 – 30th SEASON
INDIANS by Arthur Kopit

1983-1984 – 29th SEASON
The Private Ear and The Public Eye by Peter Shaffer

1982-1983 – 28th SEASON
God by Woody Allen

1981-1982 – 27th SEASON
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

1980-1981 – 26th SEASON
Unknown
1979-1980 – 25th SEASON
Unknown

Under the direction of Jerry Henderson and Marilyn McKay (1973-1979)
1978-1979 – 24th SEASON
Plaza Suite by Neil Simon
Bell, Book and Candle (revival) by John Van Druter
Angel Street by Patrick Henry

1977-1978 – 23rd SEASON
The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year by
Everything Pacific Avenue by
Feiffer’s People by Jules Feiffer
The Diary of Adam and Eve by
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
Theatre of the Soul by

1976-1977 – 22nd SEASON
The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart & George Kaufman
Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams
Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard
A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekov
Little Mary Sunshine by Rick Besoyan

1975-1976 – 21st SEASON
The Little Box of Winter Seed by Jerry Henderson
The Lennon Play: In His Own Write
Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow
Here We Are

Play It Again, Sam by Woody Allen

At the Late-Night Double Feature Show by Bob Yearwood

1974-1975 20th SEASON

Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon

The Ugly Duckling

That’s Where the Town’s Going

Spoon River Anthology by Kermit Breen

Everybody Loves Opal by John Patrick
I’m Herbert
Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn

What Can The Matter Be?? by John Neely Howell

Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

1973-1974 – 19th SEASON Jerry Henderson takes over the theatre program.

The Lion in Winter by James Goldman

1776 by Sherman Edwards & Peter Stone                                        
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simon
The Torchbearers by George Kelly

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown by Clark Genner

Evening of Comedy (Selections from Thurber plays) by James Thurber

Under the direction of Doug Tidwell (1968-1973)
1972-1973 – 18th SEASON

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Androcles the Lion by
A Cry of Players by William Gibson

1971-1972  - 17th SEASON
Camelot by (First joint production of Tech Players and Music Dept.)

The Devil to Pay by Robert Bode

Reynard the Fox by
Oliver by Lionel Hart

1970-1971 – 16th SEASON
(Library Auditorium officially named the Backdoor Playhouse)
The Subject Was Roses by Frank Gilroy
Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw
Alice in Wonderland by Alice Eyre Gerstenberg
1984 by
The American Dream and The Sandbox by Edward Albee

1969-1970 – 15th SEASON
The Time Of Your Life by William Saroyan
(performed in Derryberry Concert Auditorium)
The Amorous Flea by
Dark of the Moon by Howard Richardson & William Barney

Godspell by Stephen Schwartz

1968-1969 – 14th SEASON Doug Tidwell takes over theatre program.
Becket by Jean Anouilh – directed by Dorothy Printz Pennebaker
The Rainmaker by Richard Nash
Three One-Acts
            Even the Hater
            Will the Real Jesus Christ Please Stand Up?
            Mooney’s Kids Don’t Cry
Star Spangled Girl by Neil Simon

Under the direction of Wesley Bostick (1964-1968)
1967-1968 – 13th SEASON
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart & George Kaufman
Present Laughter by Noel Coward
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
Medea by Robinson Jeffers

1966-1967 – 12th SEASON
Tartuffe by Moliere
Angel Street by Patrick Henry
The Fantastiks by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt
Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings

1965-1966 – 11th SEASON
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Circle by Somerset Maugham
The Grass Harp by Truman Capote

1964-1965 – 10th SEASON Wesley Bostick takes over theatre program.
The Pelican
Spoon River Anthology
Bus Stop
Experimental Theatre Program-Riders To The Sea by Synge, One-Act Plays

Under the direction of Margery Hargrove
With assistance by Homer K. Nicholson (1962-1964)
1963-1964 – 9th SEASON-Productions produced under name The Highland Theatre
My Three Angels by Sam and Bella Spewack
A Hatful of Rain
See How They Run

1962-1963 – 8th SEASON
The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie
Charlie’s Aunt by
Inherit the Wind Jerome Laurence & Robert E. Lee

Under the direction of Dorothy Pennebaker and Clement Eyler (1953-1962)
1961-1962 – 7th SEASON
Unknown

1960-1961 – 6th SEASON
Ask Any Girl
Bell, Book and Candle (revival) by John Van Druter

1959-1960 – 5th SEASON
Unknown

1958-1959 – 4th SEASON
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
Balcony Scene

The Brute

A Visit to Small Planet

1957-1958 – 3rd SEASON
Laura by Vera Caspary & George Sklar
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

1956-1957 – 2nd SEASON
The Witching Hour by August Thomas
The Silver Cord by Sidney Howard

1955-1956 – 1st SEASON
The Tech Players are officially recognized as Tech’s Drama Club
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
Miranda by Peter Blackmore

1954-1955-(Not officially called the Tech Players at this time)

Harvey

1953-1954 – (Not officially called the Tech Players at this time)

Bell, Book and Candle by John Van Druter