2017-2018 Theater and Performance Studies Season
Flex Passes are now available for Past/Present, the Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program’s 2017-18 season at the Davis Performing Arts Center. A Flex Pass is good for four tickets to any combination of the shows mentioned below at the Davis Performing Arts Center.
Main Stage
Friday, October 6, 2017, at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Saturday, October 7, 2017, at 8 p.m.
Sunday, October 8, 2017, at 2 p.m.
Friday, October 13, 2017, at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Saturday, October 14, 2017, at 8 p.m.
The Infinite Wrench
Written by the cast
Artistic Direction by Trevor Dawkins and Leah Urzendowski
A collaboration between The Neo-Futurists, one of the most highly regarded experimental theater companies in the U.S. and Georgetown’s Theater & Performance Studies Program, The Infinite Wrench is a mechanism that unleashes 30 short plays in random order for a live audience. Each play offers something different—some are funny, others profound. Some are elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, terrifying, or put to song. All of the plays are truthful and tackle the here-and-now, inspired by the lived experiences of the performers. The Infinite Wrench is The Neo-Futurists’ ongoing and ever-changing attempt to shift the conventions of live performance and speak to the present audience, including those unreached or unmoved by other types of theater.
DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DEVINE STUDIO THEATRE
FRIDAY/SATURDAY EVENING:
$18 GENERAL | $15 FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, SENIOR | $10 STUDENT
ALL OTHER PERFORMANCES:
$15 GENERAL | $12 FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, SENIOR | $7 STUDENT
Thursday-Saturday, November 2-4, 2017 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 5, 2017, at 2 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday, November 9-11, 2017 at 8 p.m.
Caesar
By William Shakespeare
Adapted and Directed by Anita Maynard-Losh
Republic or Empire? What happens when one man seeks absolute power through populism? How susceptible are the People to the persuasion of compelling rhetoric? Is it ever justifiable to use violence to protect a democracy? With support from the Arena Stage/Georgetown University/Andrew R. Ammerman F’72 Partnership, this production moves Shakespeare’s classic into the context of 2017 America, with its ubiquitous media coverage, cult of personality, and the capricious loyalty of public opinion.
DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, GONDA THEATRE
FRIDAY/SATURDAY EVENING:
$18 GENERAL | $15 FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, SENIOR | $10 STUDENT
ALL OTHER PERFORMANCES:
$15 GENERAL | $12 FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, SENIOR | $7 STUDENT
Thursday and Friday, January 25 and 26, 2018 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, January 27, 2018, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
The Lathe of Heaven
Based on the book by Ursula K. Le Guin
Adapted by Prof. Natsu Onoda Power and Richard Henrich
Directed by Prof. Natsu Onoda Power
Co-produced by the Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program and Spooky Action Theater
In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George’s dreams for his own purposes. Featuring a blended cast of student and professional actors, this co-production adapted and directed by Prof. Natsu Onoda Power runs one weekend at Georgetown, followed by a run at Spooky Action Theater. The Boston Globe has said of Onoda Power’s work, “bracingly original and head-spinning…singular playwright-director.”
DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DEVINE STUDIO THEATRE
FRIDAY/SATURDAY EVENING:
$18 GENERAL | $15 FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, SENIOR | $10 STUDENT
ALL OTHER PERFORMANCES:
$15 GENERAL | $12 FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, SENIOR | $7 STUDENT
Thursday-Saturday, April 12-14, 2018 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 15, 2018, at 2 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday, April 19-21, 2018 at 8 p.m.
Amanuensis
a tale, a grapple, a loosely historically inspired feminist fantasia
By L M Feldman
Directed by Prof. Maya E. Roth
Artfully told through the eyes of three young sisters, Amanuensis imagines the life and relationships of Poet John Milton during the seven years he spent writing Paradise Lost, the epic poem famously transcribed by his daughters whom he kept barely literate when he was was blind and outcast. Written by an exciting feminist playwright with eloquence, high theatricality, and riotous comedy, this new play “set” during 17th-century England’s social volatility—and, too, now—Amanuensis interrogates the relationship between genius and privilege, authorship and history, gender and voice. Savvy allusions to Milton’s allegory about the Garden of Eden, as well as King Lear, with moving family drama and high fun for all! The GU Theater & Performance Studies Program will host a talkback about themes of the show after the Sunday, April 15 matinee, and the Doyle Engaging Difference Program will host a post-show conversation after the Thursday, April 19 performance.
DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, GONDA THEATRE
FRIDAY/SATURDAY EVENING:
$18 GENERAL | $15 FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, SENIOR | $10 STUDENT
ALL OTHER PERFORMANCES:
$15 GENERAL | $12 FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, SENIOR | $7 STUDENT
THEATER SPECIAL EVENTS
Monday, September 4, 2017, at 7:30 p.m.
Page-to-Stage Festival at the Kennedy Center
A staged reading
Landas
By Cristina Ibarra (COL ‘17)
Directed by Prof. Maya E. Roth
A woman heads off to America to escape poverty and pursue the American Dream. Her brother remains in the Philippines to write poetry and practice Buddhism. Through the grind of 9 to 5s and psychedelic rock, the two siblings search for meaning and fulfillment within the worlds of the colonizer and the colonized. Developed in the Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program’s Hope Playwriting Seminar, taught by Christine Evans. Followed by a post-performance discussion. Recommended for ages 13 and up. Explicit language/themes.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, North Opera Tier Lounge
FREE
October 11-14, 2017
2017 Callaloo Conference
Co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies and the Lannan Center, and made possible through the Arena Stage/ Georgetown University/Andrew R. Ammerman F’72 Partnership
The Callaloo Conference is a gathering of scholars and creative writers from colleges and universities across the US and from England, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, and the Caribbean. The 2017 Callaloo Conference will focus on “History, the Past, and Memory in the Making of Critical and Creative Cultural Forms.” The conference is sponsored in part by the Georgetown University Departments of Performing Arts and African American Studies, the Arena Stage/Georgetown University/Andrew R. Ammerman F’72 Partnership, the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, and Texas A&M University. HELD IN VARIOUS VENUES ON
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY’S MAIN CAMPUS
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