Nominees for the 2011-2012 ICCT Board of Directors

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The ICCT Nominating Committee has finalized a slate of recommended candidates to fill vacancies on the Board of Directors.

Nominee for President – Jill VanDorpe
Nominee for Vice President – Brenda Christner
Nominee for Secretary – Roxy Running
Nominee for Treasurer – David Roe

Nominees for Member at Large (Two-Year Terms, 3 Vacancies) – Maggie Mowery, Molly Prout, Maria Schroeder
Nominee to fulfill the remaining year of Jill VanDorpe’s Member at Large term– Steve Hedlund

The Board of Directors would like to thank the Nominating Committee for their service.

Please join us at the Spring Membership Meeting on the evening of May 2nd, 2011 (Location to be determined) for the election.  It’s an exciting time to be a member of ICCT.

Horatio's Purgatory

Theatre Cedar Rapids is graciously allowing ICCT to present "Horatio's Purgatory," the TCR submission to the AACTFest in April. This is your chance to see a preview. 



Performances are Friday, March 25th and Saturday, March 26th at 7:30 p.m. Running time is 55 minutes. Tickets are $10.  All proceeds go directly to supporting ICCT.  Tell all your friends!

      

Matthew James and Kehry Anson Lane perform Rachel Horach Howell's poetic and tragic ponderance between the lines (literally) of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," told from the perspective of the ever-faithful friend, servant and "brother," Horatio. Angie Toomsen directs.

       
"Horatio's Purgatory" was presented at TCR's Underground Festival in November and was named TCR's official selection to compete in the state theatre competition in Newton, IA. The production team has working to refine the script, acting and staging in preparation for its state performance, April 2rd.

The Nerd Opens Friday!

The Nerd by Larry Shue opens this Friday!  Performances run March 4th-6th and 11th-13th, 2011.  Friday and Saturday shows start at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:00pm.  Tickets are $10-$18.

About the Show:

One of the funniest plays ever written, this extraordinarily inventive, side-splitting comedy was first presented by the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, then produced in Great Britain, then went on to Broadway. The action centers on the hilarious dilemma of a young architect who is visited by a man he's never met but who saved his life in Vietnam—the visitor turning out to be an incredibly inept, hopelessly stupid "nerd" who outstays his welcome with a vengeance.

Call To Action: Nominating Committee Formation

We request your presence at an Iowa City Community Theatre Membership Meeting on Tuesday February 15th at 6 pm at the ICCT space on the Johnson County Fairgrounds.  We had a membership meeting in January and we were a couple of members shy of the required 20 people, most likely because of weather.

We NEED to select a group of members (three to five) for a nominating committee.  The nominating committee will find members that are interested in serving on the ICCT Board of Directors.  Please come, the meeting will be brief

And Then There Were None at the Englert This Weekend!

Come join us this weekend (February 11-13) at The Englert Theatre for a murderous telling of And Then There Were None formerly known as 10 Little Indians.  The Friday, February 11th and Saturday, February 12th shows are at 7:30pm.  The Sunday, February 13th at 2:00pm.

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE: AT THE ENGLERT

         The Iowa City Community Theatre will present And Then There Were None, a suspenseful mystery written by the best-selling author Agatha Christie. Christie’s brilliant writing weaves the story strategically into a twisted plot that leaves the audience tripped up, pointing the blame in all the wrong places. The play is based on the 1939 book, formerly titled Ten Little Indians.

      Award-winning director and active member of the community Patti Mott will be directing the play. Mott has been involved in theatre since she was three, once captivated by her father’s love for the arts. Surprisingly enough, at a young age she did not think she was going to be a director. Mott has been an actress and a costume designer, and has started many theatre productions across Iowa City. She directed her first play at City High, and graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in Theatre Arts. Mott finds the process and growth of a play to be the most fulfilling and enjoyable part about directing. She describes Christie’s play And Then There Were None as never boring and “different from all the mysteries we know and love…[it] keeps the audience engaged until the very last scene.”
      
      The story takes place in 1944, on an island off Devon in Southwest England. An interesting assortment of people with different backgrounds receive an invitation from an anonymous source to spend the weekend at the luxurious mansion that was once built for the famous Lily Logan. Johnny Brewer, a millionaire who fell madly in love with Lily, wanted to seclude her away from everyone else. He confined her to this island and cut her off from the rest of the world. With no telephone, no communication, and no way out, Lily couldn’t bear being away from the city, so she left Brewer. Heartbroken, he went back to Wall Street, and the mansion he once built for his love was sold. 

  As each guest arrives, they gather around at dinner to realize that each has no idea why they have been invited, or who invited them. They become even more suspicious when they realize that a storm is on its way and any chance of leaving the island has been completely dashed. With no telephone or source of communication with the outside world, the apprehensions begin to rise when the guests feel as if they’ve been trapped here on this island for a reason. While you may question what could be so bad about being stranded at a lavish mansion, Christie’s real mystery begins. 

Once the plot begins to unfold, the guests realize that there is no chance of escape and the only way to protect themselves is by not trusting anybody. The story takes an eerie turn when the characters realize that they were invited to this mansion to die. The tension between the guests grows, making them paranoid and painfully nervous, asking the obvious question: Who done it?  Cautiously they stare at the mantel where ten statues stand, each representing a guest and their life that is at stake. This 3 act play will leave the audience gripping the edge of their seats along with the characters, wondering what will happen next.

The first production appearing in 1944 at the Schubert Theatre in New York,  And Then There Were None will premier in Iowa City February 11th & 12th at 7:30pm and February 13th at 2:00pm at the Englert Theatre.

Director Patti Mott and the ICCT want to give a special thanks to the Senior Citizen Center for their gratitude and for providing a rehearsal place every day of the week for the entire cast and crew and the Englert Theatre for their support and partnership in the production of the play providing us with so much help in our publicity of this production.  Mott would also like to acknowledge the cast for their extraordinary talent. She enthusiastically describes it as “kind of a dream to get set a wonderful cast and crew of people that mold together so beautifully.”