It's our 74th season and we want you to join us! It's 2010: A Stage Odyssey, with northern Nevada's premier theater company! One community...one theater! The Art of Elko - the Silver Stage Players!
This year's season features commentaries on society, twists on Shakespeare, and even spooks and chills. The season kicks off with Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. Board of Directors member Bailey Billington Benson will direct her seventh version of the famous commentary on women and women's issues. Silver Stage then presents Tom Stoppard's Tony Award winning absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead directed by Frank L. Sawyer. Closing out our Stage Odyssey is the classic Fall tale of spooks and things that go bump in the night, Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. This adaptaion written by reknown children's book author Nancy Rue will highlight the 2010 Scarecrow Festival. Making his directorial debut with the Players is Board of Directors Vice-chairman Don Jones. dge's centennial milestone. So come on our adventure, its 2010: A Stage Odyssey...you and the Silver Stage Players!
The company will also lend a helping hand at such community service projects as the Elko Relay for Life and the Thomas Scott Memorial Golf Tournament among others.
Join Us
As We Raise Funds And Awareness To End Violence Against Women And Girls!
V-DAY Elko joins global effort to stop violence against women and girls with a presentation benefit production of The Vagina Monologues.
On February 25th, 2010, at 7:00pm, V-Day Elko will present a three-night only benefit reading of Eve Ensler’s award wining play, The Vagina Monologues at GBC Theatre. Click to view the poster! Last year over 4200 communities hosted V-Day benefits around the world raising funds and awareness towards ending violence against women. These highly successful events raised over $4 million through performance of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues and other shows. Elko again has joined this global movement as part of the V-Day 2010 Campaign. Read the press release here!
For the fifth year in a row Elko will present a benefit production of The Vagina Monologues at GBC Theatre on February 25-27, 2010 at 7:00pm on behalf of the V-Day 2010 Campaign. This benefit production is being produce by Silver Stage Players, Blue Yeti Productions for the second year. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the door. Proceeds will benefit the Committee Against Domestic Violence (CADV,) Northeastern Nevada CASA and VDAY 2010 Spotlight Campaign.
Hailed by The New York Times as "funny" and "poignant" and
by the Daily News as "intelligent" and "courageous," The
Vagina Monologues, which was first performed off-Broadway by
Ms. Ensler, dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage
and excitement buried in women’s experiences. Ms. Ensler has performed
the play to great acclaim throughout the world. V-Day is a global movement
to stop violence against women and girls and is a catalyst that promotes
creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the
spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader
attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including
rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.
Through V-Day’s College and Community campaigns, local volunteers and
college students produce annual benefit performances to raise awareness and
funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. In 2009, over
4200 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the
U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of
violence against women and girls.
The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 130 countries from Europe to Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and all of North America. V-Day, a non-profit corporation, distributes funds to grassroots, national and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. In 2001, V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities" and in 2006 one of Marie Claire Magazine’s Top Ten Charities. In eleven years, the V-Day movement has raised over $70 million.
To learn more about V-Day Elko call (775) 340-4550 or e-mail at lucylyn@hotmail.com. To learn more about V-Day and its campaigns visit www.vday.org.
Silver Stage Players and Blue Yeti Productions remind our theater goes that The Vagina Monologues contains adult language and themes and may not be suitable for all audiences.
Silver
Stage Brings Stoppard's Twisted Hamlet to Life with Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead!
"Did you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?"
Join Silver Stage Players as they open their production of Tom Stoppard's Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle award winning masterpiece, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The four-time Tony Award winner (including the 1968 Tony for Best Play) is an absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy that details the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern childhood friends of the Prince. Brief appearances are made by major characters from Hamlet to Ophelia as they enact portions of the original script. Between these episodes our two anti-heroes voice their confusion at the unfolding of events of which - occurring onstage without them in Hamlet - they have no direct knowledge.
Directing the Players for the nineteenth time is SSP veteran and 15-year Board of Dreictors member Frank L. Sawyer. Sawyer last directed the company's production of The Last U.S. Mail Stage Robbery: A Mellerdrammer of Truth & Fiction, the featured entertainment at this past August's Jarbidge Centennial Celebration!
The Legend
of Sleepy Hollow Featured at Annual Scarecrow Festival!
The Halloween season will be ushered in with Silver Stage Players' holiday production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. This family-friendly version was written by former Nevada playwright, popular children's book author, and former University of Nevada classmate of SSP's own Frank L. Sawyer, Nancy Rue.
The Washington Irving based play marks the directorial debut of longtime SSP and Board of Directors member Don Jones. The show features all the classic Legend characters Ichabod Crane, Bram Bones, the Headless Horseman, and Katrina van Tassel. The unique aspect of this version is the addition of a student prodigy of Ichabod's. The show will be the featured entertainment of the annual 2010 Scarecrow Festival.
