HFC Theater Arts Announces 2018-2019 Season

After hiring additional faculty and opening a new black box studio theater, Henry Ford Theater Arts Announces its 2018-2019 season. HFC's 67th season consists of 6 productions with themes and subjects as varied as life itself.

June 14, 15, 16,17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 2018: The Flick by Annie Baker. Directed By Brandon Grantz.

In a movie theater near Worcester, MA (called The Flick) three employees work dreary jobs for just above minimum wage: selling tickets, cleaning up after patrons, and running the projector. The economy is depressed, and so are they, yet over the course of this Pulitzer-Prize winning drama, Sam, Rose, and Avery show themselves to be complex, feeling people with unrealized ambitions to become more than their dreary surroundings. Annie Baker's drama unfolds in unhurried naturalistic scenes and illustrates her ability to forge compelling drama from the littleness of everyday life. 12.00 HFC Faculty, Staff, Students, Seniors. 15.00 General.

August 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2018: What I Did Last Summer By A.R. Gurney. Directed By Mary Bremer-Beer.

The setting is a well-to-do vacation colony on the shores of Lake Erie, the time 1945, during the final stages of World War II. Charlie, an incipiently rebellious fourteen-year-old, is summering with his mother and sister (his father is fighting in the Pacific) before going off to an expensive boarding school in the fall. Although he intended to spend the summer loafing and socializing with his friends, the need for spending money forces him to take a job as handyman for an iconoclastic, bohemian art teacher, Anna Trumbull, a former member of the "upper crust" who has lost both her fortune and her regard for the ideals of her upbringing. Sensing a kindred spirit in Charlie, she tries to stretch his mind by teaching him painting and sculpture - and exposing him to "radical" ideas about life and love that, in time, persuade Charlie to reject the notion of going back to school. The result is a family crisis and, more specifically, a showdown between Anna and Charlie's conservative mother, a clash of philosophies that raises as many questions as it answers and, in the end, stimulates the self-awareness that will shape the man Charlie is destined to become. 12.00 HFC Faculty, Staff, Students, Seniors. 15.00 General.

November 8-9-10-11-15-16-17-18, 2018: The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the Members of the Tectonic Theater Project. Directed By Sarah Hawkins.

HFC presents this landmark play about the reaction to the 1998 murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. The murder was denounced as a hate crime and brought attention to the lack of hate crime laws in various states, including Wyoming. The play draws on hundreds of interviews conducted by the Tectonic Theatre Project with inhabitants of the town, company members' own journal entries, and published news reports. It is divided into three acts, and eight actors portray more than sixty characters in a series of short scenes. 12.00 HFC Faculty, Staff, Students, Seniors. 15.00 General.

Nov 29, 30, December 1, 2, 2018: Fall Studio Theater Showcase.Directed By Christopher Bremer.

Our one-acts are designed to give our students experience in performing in black box theater and to provide you, the audience, an evening of intimate theatre. Come see what it's all about! Free.

April 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 2019: The Foreigner By Larry Shue. Directed By Judith Fletcher.

The Foreigner is a fun, two-act comedy by American playwright Larry Shue.

The story takes place in a fishing lodge in rural Tilghman County, Georgia, where two Englishmen, Froggy, and Charlie arrive as guests. The shy Charlie agreed to accompany Charlie on the trip after his sick wife begged him to go. When people at the lodge try to talk to Charlie, however, he remains silent: he is terribly shy, depressed about his wife's illness, and cannot find the words to reply. Froggy claims that Charlie cannot talk because he is a "foreigner" from an exotic country and does not understand English. Taking the explanation that he's a non-English speaker as fact, the lodge's guests quickly begin revealing their secrets, and Charlie soon discovers scandals amongst some of the residents of the lodge.

May 2, 3, 4, 5, 2019: Winter Studio Theater Showcase. Directed By Sarah Hawkins.

An evening of eclectic one-acts designed to run the range of emotions and themes. Come and be surprised!

All performances will be on the HFC main campus at 5101 Evergreen Road, Dearborn. Mainstage shows will occur in the Adray Auditorium (Building F) and Studio Showcase Productions will occur in the Studio Theater (Building F-Room 161). To purchase tickets and for more information, visit: https://www.hfcc.edu/campus-life/theater

Established in 1948, HFC Theater has been at the vanguard and pulse of the Dearborn and Downriver Community artistic centers and is one of the oldest educational theater programs in Michigan. HFC offers the widest variety of theater courses of Michigan two-year schools and boasts a faculty and staff of 12 seasoned professionals with hundreds of years of collective theater experience between them. HFC alumni have worked on Broadway and regional theaters in many states.

Locally, HFC Theater graduates can be seen at local theaters such as the Encore Musical Theater Company, The Open Book Theater Company, Planet Ant, Abreact Theater, Tipping Point Theater Company, Jewish Ensemble Theater, and many others.

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