About WilliamsTheatre
Current Productions
October 12 | 7:30PM | CenterStage
Each student will prepare an individual piece that is one minute in length. The presentations may represent any kind of artistic expression. These may include engaging, shocking or funny one-minute skits. Students are invited to introduce some story, discovery, or reflection. The possibilities are vast and originality is expected.
by Charles L.
Mee, Jr.
October 26 , 27 November 1 , 2 , 3 | 7:30 PM
| Adams Memorial Theatre
Directed by Jean-Bernard Bucky
It has been said that this moment in theatre history is the Mee generation,
and this wild free-for-all celebration of the power of love is among the
playwright’s most popular works. Big Love, re-made and adapted from what is
possibly the oldest Western drama, The Suppliant Maidens by Aeschylus, begins
as fifty Greek brides flee their fifty grooms and seek refuge in a villa on the
coast of Italy.
Quickly, the grooms, arriving by helicopter in their flight suits, catch up with
the brides, and the over-the-top extremity of the world of the play explodes
with karaoke numbers, variety acts, pop songs, fight sequences and physical
contests. The conclusion of the play has been characterized by one critic as “a
danse macabre of the homicidal brides.”
November 9 | 7:30 PM | CenterStage
Poetry through Acting. A public performance by acting students, inspired by the poetry of Maya Angelou.
Admission is free.
Dialogue One
solo performance festival
December 6 , 7 , 8 | 7:30 PM |
CenterStage
A new international theatre festival of solo performances.
The Festival is designed for professional artists as well as students. Solo
performers will explore essential dramatic themes, such as intellectual and
emotional complexity, the subject of solitude, and the uniqueness of human
imperfection. It is an occasion to share diverse perspectives that span
cultural, perceptional, and linguistic similarities between peoples, both
professional and personal. Professor Sangare defines the goal of Dialogue One
by the motto:
“There are no monologues. You are involved in dialogue at least with the
Universe itself.”
William by
Williams: Shakespeare Speeches
Theatre
Department Winter Study showing
January 25 | 7:30 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre
A chance to analyze and perform some of the greatest speeches from plays written by William Shakespeare.
Students will explore the depth and intensity of stage characters, and
challenge their skills with Elizabethan language. Each student will perform one
selected text accompanied by original music. Directed by Assistant Professor
Omar Sangare.
February 15 | 7:30 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre
Each student will prepare an individual piece that is one
minute in length. The presentations may represent any kind of artistic
expression. These may include engaging, shocking or funny one-minute skits.
Students are invited to introduce some story, discovery, or reflection. The
possibilities are vast and originality is expected.
March 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 | 7:30 PM | CenterStage
Translated by Anne Carson
Directed by Sam Gold
Electra is widely considered to be Sophocles’s best character
drama due to the thoroughness of its examination of the
morals and motives of Electra herself. After Electra’s father,
King Agamemnon, returns from the Trojan War, his wife,
Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus, murder him.
Sophocles’s play deals with Electra’s intense desire for revenge
in the years following her father’s murder. Sophocles’s version
of the Electra story was written around 410 BCE.
April 25 , 26 | 7:30 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre
May 1 , 2 , 3 | 7:30 pm | Adams
Memorial Theatre
Under the direction of Professor David Eppel, this
performance is a semester’s culmination of modern text
analysis and dramaturgical work for advanced students.
April 26 | 4:00 PM | CenterStage
Public performance by students who are pursuing
an interactive style of acting. Directed by Assistant Professor
Omar Sangare.
The Department of Theatre works to develop in each student
an understanding of theatre that is both broad and deep. Through creative
expression and critical study, we challenge students to engage both contemporary
and historical modes of performance. Theatre students make artworks through
design, acting, directing, and dramaturgy. They are encouraged to experiment,
to risk, and to make bold choices. Working collaboratively with faculty and
guest artists, students integrate intellectual, physical, and emotional
responses into an array of live performances each academic year.