The SPC Theater Department is putting the spotlight on women playwrights! Each year, I, SPC Theater Instructor Scott Cooper, select plays that I believe will challenge not only the student actors, but also our audiences. This year, I have decided to work with only plays written by female playwrights, a group that is not well represented in the theater world and should be highlighted more often. These women have a lot to say about our world.

Fall 2022

Our Fall play will be Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. The scene is set when a group of people snowed in at a country house discover, to their horror, that there is a murderer in their midst. Who can it be? One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until at the last, nerve-shredding moment, the identity and the motive are finally revealed. Auditions will be August 22-23 and are open to ALL SPC students. Auditioning actors must perform a one-minute dramatic monologue and read from the script. Performances will be October 19-23.

Spring 2023

Our spring play will be Eurydice, written by Sarah Ruhl. A 2003 recipient of the Whiting Award for Drama, this play reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. The play is a fresh look at a timeless love story. Auditions will be the second week of the Spring semester, and performances will be March 29-April 2.

Both of these plays are presented with arrangement with Concord Theatricals.

Summer 2023

Our summer musical is TBD at this point, but it will have a female as part of the creative team. We are looking forward to presenting these plays and supporting female playwrights in the theater!