What We Produce
Orientation Show
Orientation shows (O-shows) are short theatre productions at the start of the fall semester for incoming students! It’s our way to introduce student theatre to first-years and a fun opportunity for current students to collaborate on a show before classes begin. The O-show rehearses over Zoom (or equivalent) over the Summer periodically, and in person during Orientation Week with two performances at the end!
Mainstage
The Mainstage production is our biggest production of the semester. Although at a bigger scale, the Mainstage is still a great way to get involved with student theatre in any area (acting, design, crew, tech)! Our Mainstages are full tech and have a full team of designers with many design elements. Mainstages are a bigger commitment at an eight week process with around a 10-12, sometimes 14 hour time commitment (timing may vary).
Workshop
The Workshop production is a great opportunity for student-written works to take the stage, experimental productions, or for you to try something new! This has a much smaller scale than our Mainstage production with fewer design elements. It is a four week process with a ~7-8 hour time commitment (timing may vary).
Fall 2024 productions
O-Show
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
In a woods near Athens, three groups find their stories intertwined. A group of young lovers fight to be with the one they love while discovering themselves. The Athenian Royals’ magical Queer alter-egos battle each other while their troupe of genderful fairies meddle in the lovers’ lives. A band of rude mechanicals prepare a play for the royals’ wedding day.
The script is a shortened version of the original script with some minor word changes/omissions. The estimated run time is a little over 2 hours.
Performance dates: 12/6-12/8
Workshop
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised]
This revised version of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare(Abridged) features all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays—from spoofed tragedies to comedies condensed into one story to histories presented as a football game—performed in 97 minutes by three actors. It’s a fast-paced, witty, and physical farce meant to be enjoyed by haters and lovers of Shakespeare alike.
Performance dates: 9/1 @ 6pm and 9/2 @ 4pm
Mainstage
The Ghazzali Dossier
Below are transcripts from the deposition of Grace & Hawthrone v. Kalamad University. Most of you will never have heard of this case. The University wanted to keep it from you, but a seventeen-year-old girl is dead. Few of you knew her, but all of you deserve to know how, and you deserve to know why.
She should not be written off as an accident, not when Galatine is to blame. Not when the University is protecting Galatine, as it has been for years, in the face of students’ deaths.
The proof is in the transcripts. Read them. Share them. Don't let them escape responsibility. Not this time. -R&G
Performance dates: 10/18 and 10/19
Past Productions
Four Season Archive
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FALL
O-Show: Almost, Maine
Mainstage: DNA (canceled)
Workshop: The Wolves
SPRING
Mainstage: Eight Women
Workshop: Walking Backwards (student written work)
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FALL
O-Show: All in the Timing
Mainstage: Startling (student written work)
Workshop: Everything's Fine (student written work)
SPRING
Mainstage: Julius Caesar
Workshop: Eurydice
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FALL
O-show: (VIRTUAL) The Bacchae
Mainstage: Dry Land
Workshop: The Bacchae
SPRING
Mainstage: The Impromptu at Versailles
Workshop: Opus 1
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O-Show: The Realistic Joneses
Mainstage: Red Noses
Workshops: The Tempest and The Wolves
