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COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE-RIVER STAGE | ||||||||||||
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST |
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or A TRIVIAL COMEDY FOR SERIOUS PEOPLE | ||||||||||||
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at the Black Box Theatre | ||||||||||||
2023-24 #TheTiesThatBindUs Season | ||||||||||||
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AUDREY DI PAOLO CHLOE ESPINOZA ERIC CHARLTON FAYE CROOK MICHAEL VAUGHN PURJON BICKHAM RYAN REECE SARAH EDWARDS STEPHEN BYRUM |
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Scenic Design | Lighting, Sound & Projection Design | Costume Deisgn | ||||||||||
TRICIA TECSON | CARY BABKA | MARI CARSON | ||||||||||
Production Stage Manager | ||||||||||||
MACIE UTILE | ||||||||||||
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ELFIE MARCEWICZ | ||||||||||||
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SCOTT GILBERT | ||||||||||||
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JULY 12-21, 2024PerformancesFridays, July 12 & 19 and Saturdays July 13 & 20 @ 7:30 pm Sundays, July 14 & 21 @ 2:30 pm Thursday, July 18 @ 2:30 pm Tickets PAY WHAT YOU CAN Get THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Tickets
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We acknowledge the land currently occupied by Cosumnes River College as the traditional home of the Miwok and Nisenan people. These sovereign people have been caretakers of the area since time immemorial. The state of California is home to more than 110 Federally Recognized Indian Tribes, representing the most diverse set of tribal nations anywhere in the United States. Despite centuries of genocide and occupation, the Miwok and Nisenan people continue as vibrant and resilient federally recognized tribes, bands, and rancherias. The waters of the Sacramento, American, and Cosumnes Rivers have nourished Miwok and Nisenan tribal communities with cultural and dietary sustenance throughout time. ‘Cosumnes’ of Cosumnes River derives from the Plains Miwok language. Stemming from the words "kosumu," meaning salmon and "umne," meaning the place of, it translates as "The Place of the Salmon." Today, we celebrate our Miwok and Nisenan tribal neighbors as the ancestral stewards of this land and honor their sustained existence. It is with their blessing and continued guidance that Cosumnes River College seeks to provide an accessible, equitable, and principled institution of learning.
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About the Show
Time & Place
Time: 1895. (Also, the present, onstage in a theatre.)
Location: England, United Kingdom.
Scene Order & Locations
Act I. Algernon's Flat in Half-Moon Street, London.
Act II. The Garden at the Manor House, Woolton.
Act III. Drawing-Room at the Manor House, Woolton.
Show Description
In THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, dashing men-about-town John Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff pursue fair ladies Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. Matters are complicated by the imaginary characters invented by both men to cover their on-the-sly activities—not to mention the disapproval of Gwendolen’s mother, the formidable Lady Bracknell.
Cast
Creative Team
SCOTT GILBERT
ELFIE MARCEWICZ
TRICIA TECSON
MARI CARSON
CARY BABKA
MACIE UTILE
IAN CAMPBELL
MARTIN FLYNN
MIKE RUIZ
ELIDA SOUZA
AUDREYLYNN BARNETT
JARED SHIH
SHAN LEE
Meet the Company
RYAN REECE
![RYAN REECE - Jack Worthing](https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/stagemag/ndA625D126-0CE7-4F72-9CE81275CD745684.jpg)
SARAH EDWARDS
![SARAH EDWARDS - Gwendolen Fairfax](https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/stagemag/nd464D9716-290C-43FA-B990FEE1BA2F2C1D.jpg)
ERIC CHARLTON
![ERIC CHARLTON - Algernon Moncrieff](https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/stagemag/nd1720622189.jpg)
AUDREY DI PAOLO
![AUDREY DI PAOLO - Cecily Cardew](https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/stagemag/nd1720622061.jpg)
STEPHEN BYRUM
![STEPHEN BYRUM - Lady Bracknell](https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/stagemag/nd51046C24-254B-4AF0-B870DE39675E9BD1.jpg)
CHLOE ESPINOZA
![CHLOE ESPINOZA - Miss Prism](https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/stagemag/ndE920CB76-3986-4D92-ADBC882D3B318B0D.jpg)
PURJON BICKHAM
![PURJON BICKHAM - Dr. Chasuble](https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/stagemag/nd1720696720.jpg)
FAYE CROOK
![FAYE CROOK - Merriman/Lane](https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/stagemag/nd1720622211.jpg)
MICHAEL VAUGHN
![MICHAEL VAUGHN - Lane/Merriman](https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/stagemag/nd1720622175.jpg)
AUDREYLYNN BARNETT
JARED SHIH
SHAN LEE
SCOTT GILBERT
ELFIE MARCEWICZ
TRICIA TECSON
MARI CARSON
CARY BABKA
MACIE UTILE
IAN CAMPBELL
MARTIN FLYNN
MIKE RUIZ
ELIDA SOUZA
AUDREYLYNN BARNETT
JARED SHIH
SHAN LEE
Multimedia
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A Sacramento premiere by local playwrights
By RICHARD WINTERS, GARY WRIGHT & KERRI YUND
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Winters, Wright & Yund are local playwrights based in the Sierra Foothills and Sacramento. PLAY IT STRAIGHT, formerly ADVANCED DRAMA, had its first public reading in June 2024, and this will be its first reading in Sacramento.
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Music & Lyrics by MARK HOLLMANN
Book & Lyrics by GREG KOTIS
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Urinetown The Musical was nominated for ten 2002 Tony Awards, winning for Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score of a Musical and Best Direction of a Musical and ran for 965 performances on Broadway.
READING SERIES: STUDENT ONE ACT PLAYFEST
December 6-7, 2024
Original one act works by the students of our playwriting course get their first public performances!
ORLANDO
March 7-15, 2025
By VIRGINIA WOOLF, Adapted by SARAH RUHL
Orlando’s epic life spans five centuries and crosses class, continents, and gender identity in two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Ruhl’s adaptation of Woolf’s classic novel.
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WATER BY THE SPOONFUL
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By QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES
In the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, the past is always present for a young veteran who comes home to the ghosts of war and his mother’s addiction.
WATER BY THE SPOONFUL is the second part of the ELLIOT TRIOLOGY, a three play collection tracing three generations of a Latino family. The first part, ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE was also a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007; the final installment, THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST premiered in 2013.
TWELFTH NIGHT
July 18-August 3, 2025
Presented in community with the Cosumnes Community Services District under the stars at Laguna Town Hall in Elk Grove
($10 General Admission)
By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A shipwreck, a love triangle, mistaken identity, a Fool (and a whole lot of foolishness) collide in one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies and most beloved works.