| Title |
Author |
Academic Year |
Producation
Dates |
Location |
Troupe |
Director |
| Twin Menaechmi, The |
Plautus |
1950/51 |
December
12 - 16 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Edwin Burr Pettet |
| Physician in Spite of Himself, The |
Moliere |
1950/51 |
March
13-16, 19 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Edwin Burr Pettet |
| Devil and Daniel Webster, The |
Book: Stephen Vincent Benet /Music
Douglas Moore |
1950/51 |
March
17 |
Skinner Memorial Chapel |
Carleton Players & Glee Club/
Sponsored by Carleton Co-Op |
Stage: Edwin Burr Pettet / Music:
Enid Woodward |
| Jealous Wife, The |
George Colman the Elder; adapted by
John Lucas |
1950/51 |
May
19, 21-25 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Richard Jacoby |
| Second Shepherd’s Play, The |
|
1951/52 |
December |
|
English Drama Class |
Richard Jacoby |
| Awake and Sing |
Clifford Odets |
1951/52 |
December
11-15 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Edwin Burr Pettet |
| Heiress, The |
Ruth & Augustus Goetz |
1951/52 |
January
16 |
Severance Great Hall |
Carleton Players |
Sam Kinser |
| My Heart’s in the Highlands |
William Saroyan |
1951/52 |
March
4-8 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Edwin Burr Pettet |
| Glass Menagerie, The |
Tennessee Williams |
1951/52 |
April
12, 14-16 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Richard Jacoby |
| Death of a Salesman |
Arthur Miller |
1951/52 |
May
17, 19-21 |
Sayles-Hill |
Carleton Players |
Edwin Burr Pettet |
| King’s Threshold, The |
William Butler Yeats |
1952/53 |
December
9-13 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Edwin Burr Pettet |
| Family Reunion, The |
T. S. Eliot |
1952/53 |
March
11-14, 16 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Edwin Burr Pettet |
| Venus Observed |
Christopher Fry |
1952/53 |
May
12-16 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Jean O’Connor |
| Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay |
Robert Greene |
1953/54 |
December
8-12 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Edwin Burr Pettet |
| Gammer Gurton’s Needle |
Anonymous |
1953/54 |
January
14, 15 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
David Unumb |
| Selections from Shakespeare |
William Shakespeare |
1953/54 |
April/May |
Mai Fete |
Carleton Players |
Peggy Coombs & Grant Webster |
| Measure for Measure |
William Shakespeare |
1953/54 |
May
11-15 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Edwin Burr Pettet |
| White Deer, The |
adapted from fantasy by J. Thurber |
1954/55 |
|
Northfield High School |
The Junior Class |
Earle Gister |
| Hippolytus |
Euripides |
1954/55 |
December
7-11 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Robert W. Corrigan |
| Antigone |
Jean Anouilh; adapted by Lewis Galantierre |
1954/55 |
March
1-5 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Robert W. Corrigan |
| Electra |
Sophocles |
1954/55 |
May
10-14 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Robert W. Corrigan |
| Cherry Orchard, The |
Anton Chekhov |
1955/56 |
December
6-10 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Robert W. Corrigan |
| Farewell Supper, A |
Arthur Schnitzler |
1955/56 |
Winter |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Tom Opem |
| On a Sunny Morning |
Quientero |
1955/56 |
Winter |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Clarke Garrett & Sandra Mellema |
| Riders to the Sea |
John Millington Synge |
1955/56 |
Winter |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Nancy Klenk |
| Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife,
The |
Frederico Garcia Lorca |
1955/56 |
March
6-10 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Robert W. Corrigan |
| Romersholm |
Henrik Ibsen |
1955/56 |
May
18, 19, 21-23 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Robert W. Corrigan |
| Damn Romans |
|
1956/57 |
September
28 |
|
Junior Class |
|
| Six Characters in Search of an Author |
Luigi Pirandello |
1956/57 |
December
4-8 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Robert W. Corrigan |
| Major Barbara |
George Bernard Shaw |
1956/57 |
March
5-9 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Robert W. Corrigan |
| Harvey |
Mary Chase |
1956/57 |
March
15-16 |
Sayles-Hill Gymnasium |
Junior Class |
Nancy Klenk |
| Boor, The |
Anton Chekhov |
1956/57 |
April
13 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Fred Lessing |
| Fool, The |
Luigi Pirandello |
1956/57 |
April
13 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Robert Schneider |
| No Exit |
Jean Paul Sartre |
1956/57 |
May
14-18 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Robert W. Corrigan |
| Patience |
W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan |
1956/57 |
June
8 |
Skinner Memorial Chapel |
Carleton College |
Thomas Opem & Nancy Klenk |
| Sign of Jonah, The |
|
1957/58 |
|
Skinner Memorial Chapel |
Carleton Players in conjunction with
chaplain’s office |
|
| Skin of Our Teeth, The |
Thornton Wilder |
1957/58 |
November
14-16, 21-23 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
John R. Woodruff |
| Much Ado About Nothing |
William Shakespeare: music by Thomas
Blackburn, Alfred Lessing |
1957/58 |
April
10-12, 17 - 19 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
John R. Woodruff |
| Electra |
Jean Giradoux |
1957/58 |
May
21 |
Grand Theater |
Carleton Players |
John R. Woodruff |
| Bitter the Winds |
Dennis Wakeling / June L. Matthews |
1957/58 |
May
27 |
Severance Great Hall |
Carleton Players |
John R. Woodruff |
| Trio for Two |
Richard Pearse |
1957/58 |
May
27 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Peter Connelly |
| Lizzie Borden |
David Young ‘58 |
1957/58 |
June
7 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players Experimental |
Nancy Klenk |
| Off Broadway |
|
1958/59 |
|
Northfield High School Auditorium |
Co-op |
|
| Dark Lady of the Sonnets |
|
1958/59? |
|
|
|
|
| Inspector General, The |
Nikolai Gogol |
1958/59 |
October-November |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
John R. Woodruff |
| Crucible, The |
A.rthur Miller |
1958/59 |
December-January |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Peter Connelly |
| Ring Around the Moon |
Adapted by Christopher Fry from "L’invitation
au chateau" by Jean Anouilh |
1958/59 |
February-April |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
John R. Woodruff |
| Night Must Fall |
Emelyn Williams |
1958/59 |
March
13-14 |
Sayles-Hill Gymnasium |
Junior Class |
Anthony Kaufman |
| Sleep of Prisoners, A |
Christopher Fry |
1958/59 |
April
12 |
Skinner Memorial Chapel |
Carleton Players Experimental in conjunction
with chaplain’s office |
Abigail Abbott |
| Man of Destiny |
George Bernard Shaw |
1958/59 |
April
17, June |
Boliou Theater |
Carleton Players |
Karen King |
| Butterfly that Blushed, The |
Fay and Joeseph Golden |
1958/59 |
April
24 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
John R. Woodruff |
| Rainbow Moment |
Robert Metz ‘59 |
1958/59 |
May
1 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Ted Laabs |
| Endgame |
Samuel Beckett |
1959/60 |
September-October |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Theodore Laabs |
| Mikado, The (and variations) |
based on Gilbert and Sullivan |
1959/60 |
October
16 |
Northfield High School auditorium |
Junior Carnival Friday Night Show
Committee |
John Collins |
| Lysistrata |
Aristophanes |
1959/60 |
October-November |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
John R. Woodruff |
| Holy Family |
R. H. Wand |
1959/60 |
December
6 |
Severance Great Hall |
Carleton Players in conjunction with
chaplain’s office |
Sandra Thunander |
| Caprice, Un |
Alfred de Musset |
1959/60 |
December
9 |
Great Hall |
Carleton French Club |
Ruth Weiner? |
| Streetcar Named Desire, A |
Tennessee Williams |
1959/60 |
December-January |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
David Macfarlane |
| Importance of Being Earnest, The |
Oscar Wilde |
1959/60 |
(Opened
February) |
Cave |
Smug |
John R. Woodruff |
| Cymbeline |
William Shakespeare |
1959/60 |
February-March |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
John R. Woodruff |
| Girl Crazy |
George and Ira Gershwin |
1959/60 |
March |
Northfield High School Auditorium |
Co-op |
Lysle Weeks |
| Santa Claus |
e.e. cummings |
1959/60 |
May |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players Experimental |
James Hall |
| Something Unspoken |
Tennessee Williams |
1959/60 |
May |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players Experimental |
Judith Ehrich |
| Two Gentlemen of Soho |
E. P. Herbert |
1959/60 |
May |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players Experimental |
Abigail Abbott |
| Aria da Capo |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
1959/60 |
May
4 |
Nourse Little Theater |
Carleton Players |
Harriet Thiele |
