The Masque, La Salle University's student-run theater organization, was founded in 1934. With the support of faculty advisor Joseph Sprissler the Masque presented its first performance on December 27, 1934 with the play Sun Up. Though there have been some gaps (particularly during WWII when the group briefly disbanded), the Masque has continued to put on plays and musicals almost continuously since its inception.
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3 One Act Plays
La Salle College
3 One Act Plays by Thornton Wilder:
Pullman Car Hiawatha
Queens of France
The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden -
The Skin of Our Teeth
La Salle College
Thornton Wilder's Pultizer Prize winning drama is presented by The Masque of La Salle College.
Written in 1942, this play is a comedy about George_Antrobus, his wife, and two children, and their maid, Lily Sabina Fairweather, all of Excelsior, New Jersey.
George Antrobus is John Doe or George Spelvin or you -- the average American at grips with a destiny; sometimes sour, sometimes sweet. The Antrobuses have survived fire, flood, pestilence, the seven-year locusts, the ice age, the black pox and the double feature, a dozen wars and a many depressions. They run many a gamut, are as durable as radiators, and look upon the future with a disarming optimism.
Alternately bewitched, befuddled and becalmed, they are the stuff of which heroes re made -- heroes and buffoons. They are true offspring of Adam and Eve, victim of all the ills that flesh is heir to. They have survived a thousand calamities by the skin of their teeth. Here is a tribute to their indestructibility.
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The Bald Soprano
La Salle College
In celebration of its Thirtieth Anniversary, the Masque of La Salle College is presenting a calendar designed to better develop the professional and academic aspects of college theatre. For our two regularly scheduled shows we are performing Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story, choices which offer not only entertaining evenings but also opportunities for comparison and criticism in the classroom. We proudly announce a student-produced, student-directed workshop program, under the auspices of the Masque, which proposes to better acquaint the theatre-going public with the nature and purpose of the modern playwright's contribution to the performing arts.
The Workshop's first offering will be this production of Eugene Ionesco's highly successful one-act play, The Bald Soprano. Although it is completely produced by the students, this presentation will have at its disposal all of the Masque's facilities (and abilities).
The presentation will be preceded by a brief study of Ionesco's other works and his particular concept of theatre; after the production there will be a discussion and evaluation of The Bald Soprano.
We bid you welcome. We hope that you enjoy the evening