Department of Performing Arts

The 2011-12 Nature's Mirror: A Season of Evil and Noble Acts features three faculty-directed mainstage productions, as well as an array of special events including visiting international companies and leading professional guest artists, student-written and directed work, and much more.

Order your Flex Pass today (good for three tickets to any combination of the Theater & Performance Studies Program mainstage productions at the Davis Performing Arts Center (Visible Impact, A Child Shall Lead Them: Making ‘The Night of the Hunter,’ and Macbeth) at just $40 for the general public (up to 25% savings), $30 for faculty/staff/alumni/senior (up to 33% savings) and $15 for Georgetown University students (up to 50% savings).

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VISIBLE IMPACT
Conceived and Directed by Professor Susan Lynskey
Created in collaboration with
Suzanne Richard, Fr. Rick Curry S.J., and the Ensemble

Visible Impact is an ensemble-created production that weaves monologue and memoir, scene-work and Shakespeare, poetry and movement,to explore and enact diverse experiences and perspectives from the d/Deaf and disabled communities. This revealing and often autobiographical piece dramatizes the intertwined relationships between biology, language, culture, and identity. Created on the premise that disability, deafness, and diversity enrich the artistic experience and advance aesthetic innovation, Visible Impact artists celebrate difference, inclusion, and the evolving capacity of all people.

The Visible Impact production is the centerpiece of the DiverseABILITY Forum (Oct 21-23), a weekend of workshops and discussions with guest artists, scholars, and policymakers, cabaret/dance and solo performances, and forums on access and advocacy. The Forum is made possible by Georgetown’s Reflective Engagement in the Public Interest Initiative. Check out the schedule of DiverseABILITY Forum events for additional details and ASL interpretation information.

Thursday, October 20 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 22 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, October 23 at 2 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, October 26-29 at 8 p.m.
DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DEVINE STUDIO THEATRE

A CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM:
MAKING ‘THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER’
Written and directed by Professor Derek Goldman

CO-PRODUCTION BETWEEN UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES AND GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY THEATER AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES PROGRAM

The 1955 film The Night of the Hunter was largely ignored upon its release but is now widely regarded as an American masterpiece. This new multimedia production is a historical re-imagining of the making of the film, woven from the classic screenplay and accounts of the shooting from those who were there, including director Charles Laughton, screenwriter James Agee, and actors Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish. The play provides a powerful new framework for experiencing this uniquely chilling tale of corruption and evil, in which the forces of creation and destruction do battle with each other, within and outside of the frame. The production will also run November 12-19 at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kogod Theatre (University of Maryland, College Park).

Thursday-Saturday, November 3-5 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 6 at 2 p.m.
DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, GONDA THEATRE

MACBETH
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Professor Maya E. Roth
Produced by Lorraine Damerau (COL ‘13)
Co-production between the Theater and Performance Studies Program and Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society

A fresh, exhilarating approach to Shakespeare’s most haunted tragedy, this distinctly ensemble rendering conjures an immersive world between nightmares and waking, the living and the dead. Ritualistic, mercurial, and provocative this highly theatrical, cross-cultural staging probes Macbeth’s spiral through brutality, witches, and war. Co-produced by the Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program and Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society, one of America’s longest-running co-curricular theater groups, this production caps a year-long focus on Macbeth by Professor Roth.

Thursday-Saturday, April 12-14 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 15 at 2 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, April 18-21 at 8 p.m.
DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, GONDA THEATRE

In addition to the mainstage shows, read about the 2011-12 special events, including the Theater and Performance Studies Senior Thesis Projects The Bi(g) Life and more.