<p>Experience The Moors—an ingenious dark comedy that subverts the tropes of the 19th-century Gothic romance. Contemporary Queer playwright Jen Silverman has brilliantly crafted eight characters (six women, a dog, and a moor hen) who each contend with desire, fear, and transformation. In their struggle to change, we recognize their love and their desperate need to be seen.</p>
<p>A THICK DESCRIPTION OF HARRY SMITH, a proto-psychedelic medicine show, takes a wild ride through the life, work, and times of filmmaker, musicologist, painter, anthropologist, collector, occultist, and fabulist, Harry Everett Smith. Best known for editing the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music, Smith's peculiar life is an emblem of American bohemian life in the 20th Century.</p>
<p>In VANITY FAIR, Becky, orphaned and disadvantaged, is cunning and ambitious, while Amelia, born into privilege, is well-intentioned but naive. As they each strive to secure love, success, and stability in the patriarchy of early 19th-century London they face many obstacles to their dreams.</p>
<p>In this unique adaptation of "The Adding Machine," the unremarkable Mr. Zero, an accountant, is unexpectedly replaced by an adding machine. What follows is a series of remarkable events during and after his life that are outside of his control--or are they? In this devised adaptation, Director Ryan Purcell and student artists will examine the present-day emergence of artificial intelligence in the context of Rice’s prescient expressionistic classic of the 1920s.</p>
<p><b>Directed by M.F.A. Directing student Kate Drummond</b></p>
<p>The Producing Artists Lab is an opportunity for student artists to share exploratory or developmental projects with the public. The Audience members may see a wider range in the levels of production and often more vigorous artistic risk-taking in these Lab productions. </p>
<p><strong>AIRNESS</strong></p>
This course examines sources of fear and the obstacles that keep us from becoming our most human, most successful self, whatever your field. Develop courage, connecting and communicating.
Surveys the role of the functional arts in the cultural identity of Western Civilization and the ways concepts of gender, religion, status, and place have informed visual arts in the west.
Through physical, vocal, mental, and emotional warmups, students will identify their own personal values and approaches to being a professional communicator in any communication setting — and gain confidence in public speaking.
Learn about socially and politically impactful plays that have shaped and changed the world around us, with emphasis on race and methodologies of social change.
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear School of Drama community, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Due to logistical concerns related to the omicron surge and the desire to balance safety and learning goals, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the first week of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Photograph 51 </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">performances. </span></p>