Mirrors by John O’Brien

Presented by special arrangement with The Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Illinois.

Directed by Maria Lewis

This play, which scored impressively in several major play contests, begins with a man spending an ordinary evening in his ordinary home with his ordinary family. Then a psychiatrist enters. The man, it seems, is not at home but in a hospital. His family, we learn, is dead … or are they? After the doctor leaves, the man's wife returns to ask if he is still fantasizing that his family is dead. His wife, it seems, is real … or is she? When she leaves—at play's end—the man and the audience must decide which reality is the real one.

‘Dentity Crisis by Christopher Durang

Presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection.

Directed by Charlotte Liu

Recovering from a nervous breakdown, Jane is nursed and nagged by her relentlessly cheerful mother, and confused by her brother—who keeps changing into her father, her grandfather and her mother’s French lover. Eventually all (including Jane’s psychiatrist, who swaps places with his wife) change characters again and become Jane herself—leaving her with no identity at all and pointing up the near impossibility of self-identification in our uncertain times.

An Experiment by Brent Holland

Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Services, Inc. 

Directed by Eleni Georgopoulos

Portrayed in a fantasy world, five confused participants wake up with no memory of their past life … with only one word, a personality descriptor (such as compassionate, courageous or orderly) written in type on their shirts.  The doctor explains that each is here willingly, and that they are all being compensated for their participation in a research study. Will the assigned attribute of each participant affect their behavior when under extreme duress? Once the experiment begins and they find out that to lose is to die, all five do what they must to survive the experiment.  The Hunger Games meets Survivor in this experiment. 

Torrance High  Theater seeks to maintain a supportive and creative culture of live theatre on the historic Torrance High School campus. By providing a safe place for students to step out of their comfort zone,  Torrance High Theater seeks to build artists of outstanding character as well as equipping them with skills that will provide them with a lifetime of learning. 
 

Built on the legacy set by  former theater teachers Casie Duvall and Charles Slater, Torrance is led by artist-educator Darryl B. Hovis. Darryl  earned his M.A. in Theatre Production at Central Washington University and studied acting at the Professional Conservatory at UCSD under Anna Shapiro (Steppenwolf) as well as South Coast Repertory under Karen Hensel. He is the co-founder and former artistic director of the Culver City Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, where he developed an intensive arts program for high school students in theatre, film, music, and art, and has gone on to develop theatre programs at other Southern California high schools, as well as Theatre International at Leysin American School in Leysin, Switzerland.  He is a resident artist with Chance Theater where he serves as Associate Producer of the Theater for Young Audience series as well as the director of the Teens Speak Up! program working with teens in finding their voice in theater.

Torrance Theater performs in two venues on campus. ASSEMBLY HALL a 700 seat WPA landmark in the center of campus, built in 1938 and beautifully renovated in 2004. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and  is an outstanding example of PWA Moderne work. THE LITTLE THEATER, an intimate space with various configurations holding up to 120 people.
 

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