The Actors Shakespeare Company at New Jersey City University Announces Season 2011-2012: “Rough Magic.”
The theme is inspired by Prospero in The Tempest, who marks his return to duty, civilization, and his own humanity with the vow, “This Rough Magic I here abjure.”
Discounts are being offered to the main-stage shows. Just mention The Messenger Discount.
CHRISTMAS WITH DICKENS & DYLAN
Directed by ASC RA Peter Galman
WHEN: December 8-18, 2011, Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 PM and Saturdays and Sundays and 3:00 PM
WHERE: NJCU’s West Side Theater, 285 West Side Avenue, Jersey City
TICKETS: Advance orders for tickets to Christmas with Dickens & Dylan, including group sales, are now available. Tickets for adults are $30, seniors $15 and students $10, children under 18 pay their age in dollars. A purchase of six or more tickets entitles the patron group to a 50% discount; Patrons can also earn single-ticket discounts of 20% by calling and mentioning where they saw the production notice. Call ASC at NJCU at 201.200.2390 or visit www.ascnj.org
Characters from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, adapted by Greg Oliver Bodine, and from Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' Iwill be performed as a one-man tour-de-force by ASC Resident Artist Colin Ryan. Heartwarming stories filled with Christmas cheer, ghosts and presents make it the ideal holiday production for the whole family.
NO HOLDS BARD: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
By William Shakespeare
WHEN: January 26, 2012, 7:30 PM
WHERE: West Side Theater
ADMISSION: Free
ASC at NJCU will open its stage to an unrehearsed playing of William Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, Much Ado About Nothing. The audience will assist in casting the play and may also participate in the performance. Join the Resident Artists of ASC for a fun-filled evening of out-loud, on-your-feet, seat-of-your-pants Shakespeare. Prizes will be awarded, and perhaps we’ll even discover our next Romeo or Juliet.
SHAKESPEARE ON SCREEN: Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood
Hosted by ASC Resident Artist James Rana
WHEN: Sunday, February 12, 2012
WHERE: the Grossnickle Hall auditorium (room 144) on the NJCU campus.
Shakespeare On Screen presents free screenings of films based on or inspired by Shakespeare.
MACBETH
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Producing Artistic Director Colette Rice
WHEN: March 16 and runs through April 1, 2012
WHERE: West Side Theater
TICKETS: Advance orders for tickets to Macbeth, including group sales, are now available. Tickets for adults are $30, seniors $15 and students $10, children under 18 pay their age in dollars. A purchase of six or more tickets entitles the patron group to a 50% discount; Patrons can also earn single-ticket discounts of 20% by calling and mentioning where they saw the production notice. Call ASC at NJCU at 201.200.2390 or visit www.ascnj.org
Continuing its main-stage schedule in early spring, ASC delves into one of Shakespeare’s most brutal and cynical stories, Macbeth. Shakespeare’s tale of witches, apparitions and superstitions resonates with our own sense of foreboding in a world where nothing is as it seems, where “Fair is foul and foul is fair.”
THE TEMPEST
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Producing Artistic Director Colette Rice
The Actors Shakespeare Company at NJCU concludes its "Rough Magic" season with a series of performances of The Tempest, Shakespeare’s tale of shipwrecks, spirits, monsters and magic. Ms. Rice directs the outdoor production, which begins performances in June and runs for several weeks. Stages along the waterfront in Hoboken, Jersey City and Bayonne are being considered as venues.
All the main-stage productions have audience enrichment activities. Before every performance, audience members are welcome to engage in Bard Banter, a discussion about the play held in the lobby of the theater. On select afternoons, Talkbacks are held after a matinee performance.
