2005-2006 Season
Caucasian Chalk Circle
Playwright: Bertolt Brecht
Date: November 10-12 & 17-19 @ 8 pm, November 12 and 19 @ 2 pm
Guest Director: Clair Myers

A parable about integrity and honor; oppression and violence. A fairy tale of innocence and courage triumphant in a world of social upheaval. A theatrical tour-de-force that combines story telling, song, and ritual in a landmark of the modern theatre.

Brecht’s most positive drama presents the tale of an innocent serving girl whose steadfast refusal to sacrifice an abandoned baby gives hope for a world where wickedness would seem to prevail.

Pictures from the performances

About guest director Clair Myers
Clair Myers has spent his life teaching, directing, and acting. His career as a professor of theatre began at Ohio Northern and included stints as Chair of the Department of Theatre and Communications Arts at Kalamazoo College where he established the London Program in Theatre and was artistic director of the professional summer theatre, Company, Director of the School of Drama at Illinois Wesleyan University where he established the professional Summer Company, and Dean of Arts and Humanities and Vice President of Planning at Elon University where he established one of the strongest undergraduate musical theatre programs in higher education. Many of his students have moved into the professional theatre in New York and the film industry in Los Angeles or into the academic world. While Dr. Myers is in residence at Messiah College, he will stage an original one-woman show based on Violet Oakley in the three rooms for which she painted murals in the Pennsylvania Capital. He will also appear in Bob Crawford’s new play at Allenberry Playhouse in Boiling Springs. Clair holds the M. A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan