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Notre Dame Theatre Chronology


Early Productions


Play Title: Procida

Date Performed: Commencement 1845


Henry IV

Author: William Shakespeare
Date Performed: Commencement 1847


1856: Rev. N.H. Gillespie, Director
1857: Rev. N.H. Gillespie, Director
1858: Rev. N.H. Gillespie, Director
1859:
1860: Rev. N.H. Gillespie, Director


The Rivals

Author: Sheridan
Date Performed: Commencement 1861
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The Dramatic Society


Columbus

(First commencement play in first Washington Hall)
Date Performed: Commencement 1862


Play Title: William Tell

Author: Friedrich Schiller, 1804
Date Performed: Commencement 1863, 1870, 1876 (from which a photograph survives)
Director: Rev. Father Shaw
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The Thespian Society
Cast included: N.H. Gillespie, E.M. Brown, John (later Father) McManus


Play Title: The Nervous Man

Director: Rev. Father Shaw
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The Thespian Society
Cast included: N.H. Gillespie as McShane


Play Title: Bourgeois Gentihomme

Author: Moliere
Director: Rev. N.H. Gillespie
Sponsoring/Producing Organization: The Thespian Society


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