Category: Drama

Railway comedy delivered nonstop laughs on-stage Del Mar’s Fall production, “Twentieth Century,” was the Drama Department’s masterful undertaking at whisking its audience to a Depression-era setting, while also displaying what travel was like aboard the famous Twentieth Century express train. The play, an adaptation of a script written by Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur, concluded its run at the Finley Theatre on Nov. 17. The production, set in the 1930s aboard the train en route from Chicago to New York City, provided stylish entertainment with heavy doses of humor, as it centered on a despairing and nearly broke Broadway director…

Professional makeup artist Ava Gibbs-Kamaria visited Del Mar to teach a makeup class and critique students’ zombie effects makeup. The zombie gore workshop was held on Tuesday, Oct. 30 in the Bartlett Theatre. She gave a multitude of advice to the students and shared much of what she has learned while working on movies, television and theater sets. Gibbs-Kamaria has worked with special effects since 1965 in Dallas. She’s worked on musicals including “Les Miserables,” “The Lion King,” “The King and I,” “White Christmas” and more. In 2012 and 2013 Gibbs-Kamaria was selected to conduct a presentation on Theatrical Makeup…

Production offers a hilarious satire on ordinary middle class Eugene Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano,” produced and performed by the Del Mar College Drama Department, offered audience members a light-hearted existential crisis, along with punch and cookies during intermission. The play opened April 13, with Student Appreciation Night on April 19. Most have never had an experience with “theater of the absurd,” defined as “drama using the abandonment of conventional dramatic form to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world.” It’s a genre of theater that seems to stray from the ordinary and introduces the psyche of the…