SAV FRANZ The Salem College Pierrettes’ Fall play was a staged reading and adaptation of Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The story, which took place on an island out of a tropical paradise, is a striking tale of the human condition and a commentary on British high society. This story was turned on […]
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SOPHIA SHELTON “If your vagina could speak, what would it say?” It would say that Salem College put on the show of a lifetime. Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” was performed at Salem College on Feb. 2-4. It was co-directed by Katie Hilderbrand and Nelly Gomez Amaya with co-fundraising by Karina Gonzalez and Dulce Rivas […]
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SOPHIA SHELTON EVA ANDREWS Photos by Claire Smithers and Ariel Becker As Clairee, played by Sarah Hallett, from “Steel Magnolias” would say, “If you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!” Salem College’s Pierrettes presented “Steel Magnolias” from Sept. 29 to Oct. 2. While the cast was small, the reaction […]
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By Eva Andrews In 1909, long before the Student Government Association, there was a group of thespians who formed a theater group. First called The Dramatists and later renamed the Pierrettes, this campus club has been entertaining Salem College for over a hundred years. This past March, they performed The Addams Family Musical, a story […]
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By Emily Ramser Real women, real stories; it sounds like the tagline for The Vagina Monologues, but it means something different when applied to Pierrettes’ fall semester production, These Shining Lives. These Shining Lives is a play from the early 2000s written by Melanie Marnich, an American playwright and television writer. These Shining Lives it […]
Read More…Each year, Salem College’s Pierrettes put on two productions: the fall play and the spring musical. This year the spring musical is Seussical The Musical, a play which incorporates many of Dr. Seuss’s famous children’s tales. The play is written by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens. It first debuted on Broadway in 2000 and has […]
Read More…One of the most exciting things about the fall semester is the Pierrettes Fall play. Last year they put on “On the Verge,” a play about three women who travel in time. “On the Verge” was fantastic and had people laughing throughout the entire play, and it is looking like the Pierrettes play, “Anton in […]
Read More…I could not stop laughing when I went to see the Pierrette’s version of Little Shop of Horrors. It was fantastic. Little Shop of Horrors is a comedy horror rock musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman. It follows Seymour (Senior Miracle Thompson), a downtrodden Skid Row florist whose love life and job […]
Read More…As you may or may not know, the Pierrettes are no longer performing Grease for their spring musical. Instead, they will be doing the well-known play Little Shop of Horrors. They chose to change plays after learning that if they attempted to perform Grease, they could be shut down. Samuel French Incorporated, the company that handles […]
Read More…I was excited to hear that the Pierrettes had chosen “On the Verge” written by Eric Overmyer for their fall play, because I had heard that it was about three time-traveling Victorian women. I was hoping it might be some sort of Doctor Who/steampunk mix, but I honestly had no idea of what to expect […]
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