Recent Performances by The Theater Guild

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a musical comedy about six overachieving young people vying to be spelling bee champion. Along the way, they learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser.

Dr. Faustus

Dr. Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe based on the Faust legend and first performed in the late 16th-century. For this production, the Emmanuel College Theatre Guild adapted the original story of Dr. Faustus, a man who sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.

The Frogs

The Frogs is a comedy written by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It tells the story of Dionysus – the raucous god of theatre and inebriation – who wants to visit the Underworld to see his favorite playwright, the deceased Euripides. Dionysus first gets directions from his half-brother Heracles then he and his slave Xanthius start on their journey toward Hades. The pair cross the River Styx with the hellish boatman Charon, where they are mocked by a chorus of frogs, and eventually Dionysus is called upon to be a judge in a contest between playwrights Euripides and the recently dead Aeschylus.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare. The story of Midsummer involves two sets of couples (Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius) whose romantic paths cross and are complicated further by their entrance into the play's fairyland woods where they encounter two very different groups of characters. The first is a band of fairies, including Oberon, the fairy king, and Titania, his queen. The second is a band of Athenian craftsmen rehearsing a play that they hope to perform for the duke and his bride. As the play unfolds it illustrates that Love triumphs in the end and there is pleasure in Dreaming the Impossible Dream.

Town Mouse Country Mouse

"The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" is a fable attributed to Aesop. This simple story tells the tale of two mice with different lifestyles. A city mouse comes to visit his cousin in the country. The country mouse offers the city mouse a meal of simple country foods, at which the city mouse snubs. He takes the country mouse back to the city to show him the "fine life". In this adventure they discover the unexpected dangers of their new world.