Arsenic and Old Lace
By Joseph Kesselring
Directed by Ed Muth
Thu. - Sat. July 16 – 19 and July 23 – 25, 2009
HCC Central Drama presents the classic screwball comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace, Thursday through Saturday, July 16 – 19 and 23 – 25, in Central Drama’s Theatre One. A new generation of theatre goers will discover the slapstick farce with a dark edgy wit that ran for 1400 performances on Broadway, before Cary Grant made a smash hit of the movie in 1944.
The tale revolves around Mortimer, a worldly theatre critic, and his visit to his two adorable old aunts to announce his engagement. He’s horrified to find that the lovely ladies who raised have turned their cozy home into a mad house. For starters, his brother who believes he’s Teddy Roosevelt, is busy in the basement digging the Panama Canal. That excavation, by the way, provides a convenient cemetery for those charitable aunts, who are happily poisoning lonely old men. They do have standards however, and when another brother, psycho-killer Jonathan, tries to sneak in with a dead body they haven’t met, the aunties refuse. No strangers in our basement, they declare. Mortimer frantically tries to evade the police, wanna-be playwrights, and his snooping fiancée before she discovers that insanity doesn’t just run in the family, it gallops.
All performances are at 7:30. Tickets, $8.00 general Admission, $5.00 students and seniors. Tickets and reservations, 713-718-6570. In Theatre One, 3517 Austin at Holman, Houston TX 77004
Student Support Services Newsletter
10:38 amBarabara Renaud Gonzalez
4:46 pm
Barbara Renaud Gonzalez
Thursday, June 18th,
10 am
FAC115 HCC-Central
with her new novel
Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me?
Bárbara Renaud González, a native-born Tejana and acclaimed journalist, has written a lyrical story of land, love, and loss, bringing us the first novel of a working-class Tejano family set in the cruelest beauty of the Texas panhandle. Her story exposes the brutality, tragedy, and hope of her homeland and helps to fill a dearth of scholarly and literary works on Mexican and Mexican American women in post–World War II Texas. She is one of the first Macondistas, from the days when Macondo convened on the front porch of Sandra Cisnero’s house. She has also been active with several iconic institutions throughout Texas and the nation. She is a brilliant artist, activist, and scholar.
The swallow in this story is Amada García, a young Mexican woman in a brutal marriage, who makes a heart-wrenching decision—to leave her young daughter behind in Mexico as she escapes to el Norte searching for love, which she believes must reside in the country of freedom. However, she falls in love with the man who brings her to the Texas border, and the memories of those three passionate days forever sustain and define her journey in Texas. She meets and marries Lázaro Mistral, who is on his own journey—to reclaim the land his family lost after the U.S.-Mexican War. Their opposing narratives about love and war become the legacy of their first-born daughter, Lucero, who must reconcile their stories into her struggle to find “home,” as her mother, Amada, finally discovers the country where love beats its infinite wings.
Annual Juneteenth Celebration
9:13 am
Annual Juneteenth Celebration
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
San Jacinto Building, Auditorium
1300 Holman Street
H0uston, TX 77004
Omega Sigma Wants You!
1:13 pmHonors Travel Abroad 2009
12:26 pmHouston Indie Book Festival
8:03 amSUNDAY, MAY 10
DOMY Books
1709 Westheimer
10 A.M. - 5 A.M.
The Houston Indie Book Festival is your once-a-year, one-stop-shop for all things local, literary and underground. The event brings together independent publishers, organizations, journals, bookstores and, of course, writers and readers.
The festival features more than 30 vendors from literary outlets like Inprint, Nuestra Palabra, Arte Publico Press, Hights Books-Libros, Effing Press, Gulf Coast Magazine, NanoFiction, and more.
