The 9th Annual 24-Hour Festival is FGCU's annual melee of time-sensitive art. Creative and sleep-deprived students churn up the minutes in a mad race against the clock to produce the best stage play, film, music, or artwork completed within a 24-hour period. For each of the past eight years, students at FGCU have met in a creative competition that draws from their unique capacity for procrastination and their tremendously dynamic creativity. At 6 p.m. on Friday, September 11th, students are given a list of items that have to appear in their film, stage play, visual or performance art, dance, or music piece, and at 6 p.m. on Saturday the 12th, they submit their finished product. At 8 p.m., the public is invited to view the results, which will be as unexpected as they are entertaining. Due to the popularity of this event, it is no longer able to be held at TheatreLab, but will instead be in Parking Garage 2 at the other end of the Arts Complex parking lot. Walls can no longer contain this event!
This Tony Award-nominated hilarious, roller-skating, musical adventure about following your dreams despite the limitations others set for you, rolls along to the original hit score composed by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar. Based on the Universal Pictures' cult classic movie of the same title, which starred Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly, Xanadu is hilarity on wheels for adults, children and anyone who has ever wanted to feel inspired.
This is a co-production with TheatreZone in Naples.
October 1, 2, 3, 8, 9 & 10 at 8:00 p.m.
October 3 & 11 at 2:00 p.m.
October 4 & 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets for this production are $40-45.
Purchase Tickets
This Tony Award-nominated hilarious, roller-skating, musical adventure about following your dreams despite the limitations others set for you, rolls along to the original hit score composed by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar. Based on the Universal Pictures' cult classic movie of the same title, which starred Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly, Xanadu is hilarity on wheels for adults, children and anyone who has ever wanted to feel inspired.
This is a co-production with TheatreZone in Naples.
October 1, 2, 3, 8, 9 & 10 at 8:00 p.m.
October 3 & 11 at 2:00 p.m.
October 4 & 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets for this production are $40-45.
Purchase Tickets
Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps
October 1-11, 2015
TheatreLab, Arts Complex, FGCU Campus
Book by Douglas Carter Beane
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Lynne (Electric Light Orchestra) and John Farra
Based on the Universal Pictures film with a screenplay by Richard Danus & Marc Rubel
Directed by Mark Danni
Written and Directed by Barry Cavin
A well maintained mansion rests deep in the back wood mountains of Northeast Georgia. No one knows how it got there but the National Park Service keeps it ready for aspiring grad students who need a retreat to conduct specialized research. Normally the entire house is reserved for one lucky student at a time. But nature, a clerical error and some unknown force conspire to trap several earnest cryptozoological researchers who must fight for their lives against an onslaught of their own beloved research topics. The Mansion at Hangman’s Bog is a wild and hilarious new comedy by Barry Cavin. Beware of the Pugwudgie.
February 19, 20, 26 & 27 at 7:30 p.m.
February 21, 27* & 28 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets for this production are $10 for the general public and $7 for students.
*There will be a talkback with the actors, director/playwright and crew following this performance.
