This is an adaptation of Moliere's "The Adventures of Scapin", which was based on a major character (Scapin) of the classic Italian commedia dell'arte. This comedy follows a traditional commedia dell'arte plot:
Two young men fall in love - but not with women that meet their father's approval. In order to get the girls they want, they plead with Scapino, a servant, to help them out of their dilemma. As Scapino says himself, "The good Lord has blessed me with quite a genius for clever ideas and inspired inventions which the less talented, in their jealousies, call deceits and trickery." Scapino comes to the rescue though not in any traditional way and so follows a comic madness with one clever ploy following another. Reviews from other productions of this play all say this is a very active, physical show that is packed with laughs.
About the shows...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Interpreted Performance: March 14, 2002 7:30 p.m.
"...a play of passion and tension that builds from the first act, when Stanley Kowalski first meets Blanche DuBois. Stanley is macho, hard-drinking, card-playing - 'a gaudy seed-bearer,' as Williams writes, who "sizes women up at a glance." Stanley is the husband of Stella...Stella's older sister is Blanche DuBois - a delicate but fading beauty - with a penchant for lying about her not-so-pretty past. ...Blanche, who is fleeing the ugly reality of her life, and finds Stanley, who eventually undresses her psychologically and otherwise.
Her chances for a romance with Stanley's friend Mitch are ruined when Stanley warns him of Blanches's seamy history. In the last scene, Blanche is defeated. Having been raped by Stanley, though no one will believe her, she is packed off to a sanitarium by a doctor and a nurse, strangers on whose kindness she must depend."
Plot summary used for the sole purpose of promoting ticket sales to the sign interpreted performances advertised above.
HurlyBurly
Interpreted Performance: May 16, 2002 7:30 p.m.
"It is about three men struggling to define their relationship to the women they love, their careers and each other." A reviewer described one production of the play as "...a terrible, nightmarish world and yet one that is squeamishly riveting. We do not like this world, we do not like these characters and yet we're compelled to watch. ....Hurlyburly is not so much plot as slice of life..."
Plot summary and image on Colleges and University Theatre page borrowed from http://spacey.com.hurly.htm for to promote PCC's interpreted performances as advertised above.
Interpreters will start a preshow at 7:15 p.m. 
