The Buck's Rock Performance Database

First Festival play.

Original.

Performed on Festival Day.

Originally to be performed "on the Sunday before Festival day," but postponed until Festival due to rain. (Yearbook 1950, page 35)

Planned for Festival day, apparently postponed until the day after. (Yearbook 1950, page 35)

"An arrangement for the stage of such poems as The Hollow Men and Poet In The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot.

Program information gleaned from Weeder's Digest, 1951, volume 9 issue 2, page 10.

From the Yearbook, page 31: "The interesting feature of this play is its attempt to break away from the stark realism of the nineteenth century."

From the Yearbook, page 31: "A Chinese play presented by the Farmhouse girls, and incorporating the unique theatrical methods employed by the Chinese."

Presented on Festival. From the Yearbook, page 31: "Powerfully, it shows the great conflict between true justice and the law."

"A pantomime folk opera."

From the Yearbook, page 31: "The tense story of a condemned man's struggle to protect his family."

From the Yearbook, page 31: "Another highlight of the drama season was the presentation of a play written at camp this year by one of our CITs, Andy Morrison. This play dealt with the fraternity...

Date approximate. Presented on Festival.

From the Yearbook, page 31: "After Festival, "The Young And Fair," a tense drama about sorority life made a fitting end of a wonderfully complete and enjoyable season of dramatics. Date is a guess.

Date approximate.

Discrimination for Everybody

Date approximate. Festival play. From the Yearbook, page 43: "Puzzling, remarkable, and versatile."

Date approximate; after Festival.

Date approximate; "the week after festival."

Festival plays.

Date approximate. From the program: "Curb your dog. Ladies are requested to remove their hats. Please patronize our advertisers. Please use spitoons [sic] in lobby. The audience is invited to express...

English translation of Apollo by Maurice Valency.

From the Yearbook, page 50: "A one-act farce in which a hypochondriac proposes to a holy terror."

Adapted from the story by Shirley Jackson. From the Yearbook, page 50: "An allegory with several interpretations."

From the Yearbook, page 50: "A play about happiness and other social problems."

From the Yearbook, page 50: "Pure corn, presented by the CITs."

Original. From the Yearbook, page 50: "A one-acter about a rumor-monger, by one of our CITs."

From the Yearbook, page 50: "A satire on show business promotion in the form of a radio play."

From the Yearbook, page 50: "Four madwomen, who aren't really so mad, save humanity."

Also called "The Insect Play" or "The World We Live In."

Adapted from "Intermezzo" by Jean Giradoux.

Presented as a reading.

The Yearbook says only "the unforgettable CIT production was next," but does not say anything about it.

Festival play.

Festival play.

Date approximate.

Date approximate. The Marriage may be Marriage Play by Edward Albee.

Original. From the Yearbook, page 76: "A revue, our play, our very own CIT play and we're all in it together. We decided on it, wrote it, picked a director out of a hat, missed chamber music and...

Festival play.

What we now call the Summer Theater was completed in the summer of 1964 and called "the new stage."

CIT show.

CIT show.

Festival play.

Premiere season of the Actors' Workshop.

CIT show. Possibly original.

CIT show. Possibly original.

Staff play.

An "informal reading."

Festival play. Adapted from “The Trojan War Shall Not Take Place” by Jean Giraudoux .

CIT show.

Camper presented. Excerpts from “Macbird” by Barbara Garson, “The Informer” by Bertolt Brecht, and “Sacrifice” by an unknown author.

Date approximate.

CIT show. Date approximate.

Program note: "Comrades is not a very good play. The characters are interesting though, because they are based on Strindberg's own unhappy marriage. We have cast and rehearsed and revised in a way...

A Satiric Fable in Three Acts

CIT show.

"A living newspaper script."

Program Note

Referred to in the Yearbook as "Pots of Money" but evidently more well known in English as "The Money Pot."

Original.

Adapted from "Intermezzo" by Jean Giradoux.

Festival play.

Reading.

Based on the novel "A Death In The Family" by James Agee.

Festival play.

"The 'it' is a kind of force that gives rise to technology, something undefined, but inhuman, mechanical, lifeless, a blind monster, a death force. Something hideous they are running from but know...

CIT show.

From the Yearbook, page 101: "Written by camper Nick Gould's father," presumably adapted from the novel by Bram Stoker.

Staff play. A Trouble In The Works, The Applicant, and Request Stop from Revue Sketches; Words and Things and The Great Train Robbery from Beyond The Fringe; and *The Real Inspector...

CIT show. From the Yearbook, page 183: "The performance had been scheduled for Friday, August 10. As nature usually has it, however, there was a violent storm that caused a twelve hour long blackout....

Scene study. This is the first year that the Yearbook mentions the Actors' Studio, formerly called both the Actors' Workshop and the Rec Hall.

Scene study.

CIT show.

Adapted from “The Trojan War Shall Not Take Place” by Jean Giraudoux.

An evening of unspecified one-acts.

From the Yearbook, page 53:

Adaptations: an evening of eight scenes adapted from these films: All About Eve, On The Waterfront, Harold and Maude, Annie Hall, Ordinary People, Saturday Night Live, The Producers,...

Excerpt. CIT show.

Original.

Festival day show.

Festival show.

Date approximate.

Performed August 17 and 18.

Festival show. Date approximate.

In memory of my beloved cousin, Michele Hope Epstein. Her humor and love will live in my heart...forever. May we always remain children...together.

Festival show. Date approximate.

Director's Note:

In memory of my beloved cousin, Michele Hope Epstein. This evening is the product of her willingness to share her courage, her struggle and finally her surrender to "death." She has touched our...

Director's Note:

Making The Play was conceived and written, has been scripted and is performed by the actors you will see before you tonight. The play came together through a series of improvisations, discussions,...

Director's Note

Director's Note

Festival show.

Possibly the first Festival Day Show.

Festival show.

A collection of scenes and excerpts from "'Dentity Crisis," "Miss Firecracker," "Senior Square," "Audition," "Enter Laughing," "The Good Doctor," "Scrambled Feet," "Stage Door," "The Dresser,"...

Original.

Date approximate.

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A collection of scenes from "The Lesson" by Eugene Ionesco, "A Night At The Opera" by Groucho Marx, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" by Tom Stoppard, and "Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone...

Time: Early 1900's.

Director's Note: The issues posed during this peculiar episode in American history continue to reverberate through many central aspects of American life and culture. What happens to a society when...

Director's Note: As we approach the passage toward a new century, it seems the task of the artist to re-define and re-examine our role in society. With funding and content in jeopardy is is with...

Dedication: to Safdar Hashimi, one of India's popular creators of street theatre, who was murdered January 1990 at the age of 35. He was attacked after Congress Party politician Muskesh Sharma...

Director's Note:

Festival day show.

Festival musical.

Company Note: C# minor. No, just kidding.

Original.

It's not clear from the Yearbook whether this is the original text presented in an MTV style, or an actual adaptation. The program lists no author.

But the hardest thing I'll ask you,

Director's Note: We live in a world where hysteria and misinformation may infect a whole town or country, and where death and illness can fall on us so unexpectedly. Ionesco captures this in his...

"If your face is crooked, don't blame the mirror." - Russian proverb

Festival show.

A Note From the Cast: Blood Brothers is a play about class and the eternal question of nature against nurture. The setting for this production is deliberately ambiguous, exact placing is...

Performed on July 22 and 23.

Date approximate.

You may ask yourself,

Date approximate. Possibly the Festival day show.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player

"Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for the the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us." - Black Elk...

Date approximate.

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Date approximate. Camper written.

Festival show.

Thornton Wilder's "Pullman Car Hiawatha" explores the themes of universal harmony and the mistake of not having realized one's life. It may remind you of his later work "Our Town". Our second play may...

The issues in this piece are many and varied as are the problems of Northern Ireland; one thing is very simple, though: "the killing must stop," and for as long as the Provos, the Loyalists, and the...

The setting for the play:

This appears to be the first CIT showcase as it was known in the 90s and 00s.

Festival show.

Scenes from:

This show is dedicated to David and Lesley, may they rest in peace.

"The Harvest is past, the summer is ended and we are not saved."

Performed on July 19th and 20th.

Date approximate. A collection of scenes and one act plays.

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Festival day show.

Festival show.

Director's Note: The greatest potential of theatre is the communication of truths. Too often in society teenagers are not heard. This is changing. Voices was written expressly for teenagers.

Cast Note:

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Performed July 17th and 18th.

Blood Wedding, a brief history...

A collection of scenes.

Time and Place: a bar in Paris, 1904. One year later Albert Einstein published The Special Theory of Relativity. Three years later, Pablo Picasso painted his Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Festival day show.

Festival show.

"The land of the Astronauts" will be beautiful, of course, not like here. A beauty we have never seen before and perhaps can't even imagine."

Though written in 1941, Aururo Ui was virtually unknown in Britain until Leonard Rossiter's remarkable impersonation of Ui in the long-running 1967 production drew well deserved attention to this...

Date approximate.

In the playwright's original notes he wrote that this is a play about old people to be performed by young people.

Date approximate.

Festival day show. The Clown Rehearsal Stage would later be roofed and renamed "The Deluxe."

Festival show.

Date approximate.

Date approximate.

Date approximate. A collection of scenes and one act plays.

Date approximate.

This performance is dedicated to the memory of Claire Neretin.

Festival day show.

Festival show.

An improvisational based performance.

The show was rained out and had to be postponed. In order to keep from disturbing the schedule, it was performed the following afternoon. It was therefore referred to by the staff as "Dinner at Four...

Performed July 21st and 22nd.

A collection of scenes and one act plays.

SAM: check yearbook! scan cut off!

Festival day show.

Festival show.

In September, 1940, the liner taking children from bombed cities of England was torpedoed on the open sea. Only a few children escaped death in life-boats. What happened in one of these boats during...

Performed July 19 and 20.

A collection of scenes and one act plays.

Translated by Fredrick May.

Director's Note

Revised Note From The Director

Sure Thing by David Ives

Staff play.

Date approximate. Staff play.

Festival day show.

Festival show.

With additional material by Bruce Ducat.

Performed July 18th and 19th.

A collection of scenes, one-act plays, dance, and comedy.

A collections of scenes and one-act plays.

Adapted from the novel by John Irving.

Festival show.

Adapted from the novel by Carl Reiner.

Performed July 17 and 18, though program incorrectly says June.

A collection of scenes, songs, and one act plays.

"nothing is more real than nothing." (samuel beckett)

Adapted from the film by David Ward.

Two episodes of the television series The Twilight Zone adapted for the stage.

Festival day show.

Festival show.

Date approximate.

A collection of scenes, one-act plays, songs, dance, and comedy.

Concept and Story by Jason Zimbler.

Festival day show.

Festival show.

A modern retelling of Sophocles' Antigone

Date approximate.

A collection of scenes, songs, dance, and comedy.

Festival day show.

Festival show.

A new translation and adaptation by Nicholas Rudall.

Based on Ovid's Tales.

Performed 7/22 and 7/23.

A collection of scenes, songs, dance, comedy, and poetry.

Festival day show.

Festival show.

Program inaccurately titled "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

Performed on July 28th and 29th. The Rehearsal Stage is now called the Igloo; this was before it had a tarp cover.

A collection of scenes, songs, comedy, and dance.

Scenes from and adapted from various Shakespeare plays, performed for the camera.

Festival Day Show.

Festival show.

Based on the play by Jean Poiret.

A collection of scenes, songs, comedy, and movement.

Collaboration between Theater and Video Shop.

Festival day show.

Festival show.

The Plays:

A young woman teaches a young man to love a young woman by being a young man.

This show performed during rest hour and used minimal costumes, props, and scenery.

This show performed during rest hour and used minimal costumes, props, and scenery.

A collection of scenes, songs, and comedy.

This show performed during rest hour and used minimal costumes, props, and scenery.

The inaugural Junior Campers' show.

Director's Notes

This show performed during rest hour and used minimal costumes, props, and scenery.

Adapted from stories in the Grimm Brothers' collection and Aesop's Fables.

CIT show.

This show performed during rest hour and used minimal costumes, props, and scenery.

Festival day show.

Junior Campers' show.

Festival show.

Dear Viewer,

Excerpts from A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.

Adapted from several Jewish folktales.

CIT show.

This show performed during rest hour and used minimal costumes, props, and scenery.

Festival day show.

Junior Campers' show.

Festival show.

Director's Note:

This show performed during rest hour and used minimal costumes, props, and scenery.

CIT show.

Festival day show. Adapted from the novel by E.B. White.

Junior Campers' show.

Festival show.

This show performed during rest hour and used minimal costumes, props, and scenery.

Festival Day Show.

Junior Campers' show.

Festival show.

A collection of four thematically related one-act plays.

Sidewalk Justice and Henry Is Calm played as openers under the headline The Great Mystery's Traveling Emotional Revival Presents.

This show performed during rest hour and used minimal costumes, props, and scenery.

CIT show.

Festival Day Show.

Junior Campers' show.

Festival Show.

This show performed during rest hour and used minimal costumes, props, and scenery.

CIT show.

Festival day show.

Festival show.

Festival day show.

Festival show.

Director's Note:

Program note by Amelia Carlan, a member of the ensemble:

This show performed during rest hour and used minimal costumes, props, and scenery.

CIT show.

Festival day show.

Junior Camper show.

Festival show.

This show performed during rest hour and used minimal costumes, props, and scenery.

While written as a play with songs, Animal Farm was performed as a play, a cappella.

CIT show.

Performed on the back of The Beast, the Performing Arts flatbed truck, using the steps of the Clown Shoppe as audience seating.

This is the 1987 Royal Shakespeare Company version, directly adapted from the 1939 film.

Billed as "The Good Person of Szechwan."

CIT show.

Director's Note: This show is about one family's forty years worth of memories, arguments, and foiled plans. The universality of family is comedically endearing.

Festival day show.

Junior Campers' show.

Director's Note:

CIT show.

Junior Campers' show.

Festival show.

Due to COVID19 precautions, all theater shows in 2022 were performed in the Summer Theater.

Due to COVID19 precautions, all theater shows in 2022 were performed in the Summer Theater.

Director's Note:

Due to COVID19 precautions, all theater shows in 2022 were performed in the Summer Theater.

CIT show.

Director’s Note:

Due to COVID19 precautions, all theater shows in 2022 were performed in the Summer Theater.

Staff play.

Junior Campers' show.

Festival show.

Festival day show.

Junior Campers' play.

Adapted from The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol.

CIT show.

Festival Day show.

Festival show.

Adapted from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen.

First session clown show.

First session dance night.