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Discovery Series

GTA Discovery Series shows are small scale performances which are frequently the capstone projects of GTA seniors, but may also include guest performers and directors. Most Discovery Series performances are FREE (though donations are happily accepted!). Ticketing instructions are shown where applicable. Seating is general admission - first-come, first served - for FREE performances.

Helen

By Ellen McLaughlin

September 11-13, 2009, 7:30pm

A FREE Senior Thesis Project at Gainesville State College’s Ed Cabell Theatre

3850 Mundy Mill Road, Oakwood

Greek tragedy hasn't been exactly kind to Helen of Troy, the Spartan queen who is as renowned for her beauty as her unfaithfulness. In this brilliant new play, Helen is re-imagined as a modern woman holed up in a four-star hotel overlooking the grand pyramids. Both comedic and meditative, McLaughlin’s Helen whiles away her hotel-jail time pondering the plight of women as objects of beauty, as refugees from men's violence, and as human beings of limited freedom and therefore possibility.

Rated: Contains Adult Language

No Ticketing. FREE and open to the public on a first-come, first-seated basis, though donations are happily accepted at the door.

A Number

By Caryl Churchill

October 30-31, 2009, 7:30pm and October 31, 2009, 2:30 pm

A FREE Senior Thesis Project at Brenau University's Black Box Theatre (the Little Theatre) in Pearce Auditorium, One Centennial Circle, Gainesville

A straight answer is all the younger man wants in "A Number," Caryl Churchill's fiendishly clever new play about the ill-conceived. Is he, or is he not, a clone? In a patented bit of paranoid fantasy from the world of science fiction -- the diabolical misuse of genetic engineering – Churchill asks “What do you do if you discover you're not really you. Or more to the point, that there may be a lot more of you than you could ever have imagined.

Rated: R, Adult language

No Ticketing. FREE and open to the public on a first-come, first-seated basis, though donations are happily accepted at the door.

Electra

By Hugo von Hofmannsthal, adapted by Gay H. Hammond

November 13-14, 2009, 7:30pm and November 15, 2009, 2:30 pm

A FREE Senior Thesis Project at Gainesville State College's Ed Cabell Theatre

3820 Mundy Mill Road, Oakwood

In this re-written version of Sophocles story of the consequences of the murder of Mycenaean king Agamemnon, the king’s daughter Electra still mourns her beloved father’s death and obsessively anticipates the moment when she will avenge him. With lurid, Freudian imagery, we see plainly the disturbed minds of Electra and her murderer/mother Clytemnestra as they move single-mindedly to a violent conclusion.

Rated: PG

No Ticketing. FREE and open to the public on a first-come, first-seated basis, though donations are happily accepted at the door.

I, Claudia

By Kristen Thompson

December 4 - 5, 2009, 7:30pm

A FREE Senior Thesis Project at Brenau University's Banks Recital Hall in the John S. Burd Center, 429 Academy Street, Gainesville

This performance project contains excerpts of this one-woman show that maps the raw but beautiful interior life of a misfit adolescent. Claudia, twelve and three-quarters, finds herself suffering from the triple afflictions of puberty, unpopularity and her parents' divorce. Using four astonishingly expressive masks, the performer evokes the anguished Claudia, her grandfather, her dad's new girlfriend and the school janitor. Alternately wrenchingly sad and funny, I, Claudia casts a spell of rare power in the theatre.

Rated: R, Adult content and language

No Ticketing. FREE and open to the public on a first-come, first-seated basis, though donations are happily accepted at the door.

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

By Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts

February 5 - 7, 2010, 7:30pm

A Senior Thesis Project FREE at Gainesville State College’s Ed Cabell Theatre

3850 Mundy Mill Road, Oakwood

The desire for love is a fundamental urge, but perhaps as basic is the drive to remake the object of your affection. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, I Love You, Your Prefect, Now Change, Off-Broadway’s phenomenal longest-running musical, celebrates the modern-day suburban mating game. Peals of laughter and recognition will fill the theatre as the cast explores the joys of dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws.

Rated: PG13

No Ticketing. FREE and open to the public on a first-come, first-seated basis, though donations are happily accepted at the door.

the gospel of john

Performed by Brad Sherrill

March 11-14, 2010, 7:30pm

A DISCOVERY SERIES event at Gainesville State College’s Ed Cabell Theatre

3850 Mundy Mill Road, Oakwood

Back by popular demand, Atlanta Shakespeare actor Brad Sherrill returns to Gainesville as “the disciple Jesus loved.” Never has a single man, delivering every single word, created such unforgettable theatre.

Rated: PG

$10 Tickets. Click the ticket icon on the left to purchase tickets 24/7 online, or call the Box Office at 678.717.3624 Monday through Friday, 10 am to 4 pm.

Little Women

By Jason Howland and Mindi Dickstein

April 17 - 19, 2010, 7:30pm

A Senior Thesis Project FREE at Brenau University’s Hosch Theatre

429 Academy Street, Gainesville

Old-fashioned in the best possible way, Little Women makes a good complement to Wicked for those trying to entice a younger audience to the delights of the musical theatre. Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of family solidarity --especially the powerful bond between sisters-- evokes memories of curling up with Alcott's novel to read breathlessly of the adventures in love and destiny for Jo March and her three sisters.

Rated: G

No Ticketing. FREE and open to the public on a first-come, first-seated basis, though donations are happily accepted at the door.