2011 - 2012 Season

Jeremy Benjamin, Interim Director of Theatre

Thursday through Saturday, April 12 - 14, 2012 at 7:30pm - Studio Theatre

An Enemy of the People
by Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by Arthur Miller
Directed by J.R. Simons

A small Norwegian town has just begun to win fame and wealth through its medicinal spring waters. Dr. Stockmann, resident physician in charge, discovers that the waters are poisoned. On receiving proof of this, he immediately reports to his associates, but is shocked to find that instead of being thanked, he is looked upon as a dangerous crank, motivated by a desire to prove that his fellow townsmen are wrong, and to bring ruin upon them. As the people who run the local paper do their utmost to urge secrecy and compromise, the determined doctor realizes that the honesty and idealism he has counted upon to make the truth prevail simply does not exist in the face of selfish “practical” interests. An Enemy of the People deals with the extent to which individual desires and beliefs are compromised by society. In particular, the play focuses on the ways in which an individual can be ostracized by the society he is trying to help.

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GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE LCCC THEATRE PROGRAM

Our mission is to entertain, enlighten, and educate the diverse community in which we reside, by producing plays through the unique collaborative effort of community volunteers and the Theatre Department of Lorain County Community College.

Through this mission LCCC Theatre desires:

• To serve the community by offering a diverse series of arts events, aimed at expanding the communities' awareness of the arts of many cultures, the accessibility of classic literature, and the many different forms of performing arts.   

• To educate the college students and staff by providing exposure to the many different genres of theatre and affording them the opportunity to produce theatre themselves; in addition to working with more experienced professional faculty and staff.

• To support the theatre community by providing serious and meaningful performance opportunities necessary to their development as artists.

Jeremy is in his 21st year as Production Manager/Technical Director/Designer at Lorain County Community College. Mr. Benjamin teaches Stagecraft, Lighting, Sound technology and theatre history courses, along with coordinating all technical and design aspects of the Arts and Humanities Division programming. Jeremy has spent the past 25 years designing lighting for all forms of the performing arts. Besides LCCC, Mr. Benjamin’s lighting designs have been seen at the Beck Center for the Arts, Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music Opera Department, Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theatre, Cleveland Municipal School District, Dancing Wheels, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Ingenuity Festival, Lorain County Community College, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Miami University Summer Theatre, Oberlin Opera Theatre, Oberlin Department of Theatre and Dance, Ohio Dance Theatre, Opera Cleveland, Paramount Productions, and Pointe of Departure Dance.

Scott Dane Knowles, Assistant Technical Director

Scott has enjoyed over 35 years in theatre production both in the US and abroad. He has designed and built over 150 sets for theatre companies including Lyric Opera Cleveland (Das Barbecu and The Fall of the House of Usher), Cleveland Playhouse, Great Lakes Theater Festival and Oberlin College. In February 2007 Mr. Knowles designed the US premier of Lost Highway, the dramatic opera written by noted Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth and based on the David Lynch film of the same title. The production received critical acclaim from The New York Times and Musical America. This is Mr. Knowles 13th year working for LCCC Theatre.

Diane Papp, Costume Designer/Costume Shop Supervisor

In addition to completing her design studies right here in Northeast Ohio in 1982, Diane received her AS in Business/Individualized Studies in 2007 from LCCC, after which she completed a summer marketing internship with Leadership Lorain County working with non-profit organizations. Diane has over 30 years of costuming experience and over 12 years as Resident Costume Designer and Costume Shop Supervisor here at LCCC. Diane is grateful for all of the many opportunities and rewards she has received during her time here including being the recipient of 3 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Awards of Merit for her costume work in American College Theater; 2002-Homer’s The Odyssey, 2003-A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2004-She Stoops to Conquer. In January of 2005, she established the LCCC Costume Outreach Program, servicing Lorain County school drama clubs and community theaters, providing them with costuming information, resources and affordable costume rentals. Her future plans are to establish her own non-profit agency representing both studio and theatre artists here in Lorain County.

Tickets: $7/Adults; $6/LCCC Students, Staff & Seniors 65+; $5/Groups of 15 or more.

For more information and/or to purchase tickets, come to the Stocker Arts Center Box Office, which is open weekdays from 12 noon to 6:00pm, call (440) 366-4040 or (800) 995-5222 ext. 4040 during those hours, or click on the "Buy Stocker Event Tickets" icon above.

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