Productions are listed in order of performance dates.
A series of vignettes that take place in a mythical town in northern Maine whose residents are constantly falling in love--and falling out of it just as quickly. This is will be produced in collaboration with Ground-Up!
By John Cariani
Directed by Kate Middleton
SHOWTIMES:
Friday, 8/24 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, 8/25 @ 2:00 PM + 8:00PM
Sunday, 8/26 @ 2:00 PM
An ensemble retelling of the tale, using Lewis Carroll's original texts--Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Directed by Angela Sibille
Auditions: August 28-29 from 6-10PM
SHOWTIMES:
Thursday, 9/27 @ 8:00 PM
Friday, 9/28 @ 8:00PM
Saturday, 9/29 @ 8:00PM
Sunday, 9/30 @ 2:00 PM + 8:00PM
Monday, 10/1 @ 5PM
A new twist on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice dies on her wedding day and enters the Underworld. She meets her father there (though her memories of him were washed away in the River Styx), and he re-teaches her the story of her life. Orpheus strikes a deal with the Lord of the Underworld to bring Eurydice back to the surface--and Eurydice must decide whether or not she wants to follow.
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Nathaniel Claridad
Auditions: August 28-29 from 6-10PM
SHOWTIMES:
Thursday, 10/11 @ 8:00 PM
Friday, 10/12 @ 8:00PM
Saturday, 10/13 @ 8:00PM
Sunday, 10/14 @ 2:00 PM + 8:00PM
Monday, 10/15 @ 5PM
A love story that takes place in a dystopian world where chosen children and teens are kept in sequestered market research compounds and used to test consumer products.
By George Saunders
Adapted for the stage by Seth Bockley
Directed by Jordan Imbrey
Auditions: September 17-18
SHOWTIMES:
Thursday, 10/25 @ 8:00 PM
Friday, 10/26 @ 8:00PM
Saturday, 10/27 @ 8:00PM
Sunday, 10/28 @ 2:00 PM + 8:00PM
Monday, 10/29 @ 5PM
Bernarda Alba rules her house with an iron fist. She keeps her mother locked in her room, and refuses to let her daughters go outside. When Pepe el Romano (the handsomest man in the village) becomes engaged to the eldest (and homeliest) daughter on account of her inheritance, war breaks out between the sisters, and Bernarda's reins begin to slip.
*This will be a bilingual production in English and Spanish. Being a native Spanish speaker is not a requirement, and the show will be cast race blind. Of course, Latinas are strongly encouraged to audition!
By Federico Garcia Lorca
Directed by Melissa Parker
Auditions: September 17-18
SHOWTIMES:
Thursday, 11/15 @ 8:00 PM
Friday, 11/16 @ 8:00PM
Saturday, 11/17 @ 8:00PM
Sunday, 11/18 @ 2:00 PM + 8:00PM
Monday, 11/19 @ 5PM
A collection of comedic plays that makes us wonder what it means to be alive, and challenges the idea of "mere" mortality. The plays in the series are: "Mere Mortals," "The Other Woman," "Time Flies," and "Degas, C'est Moi".
By David Ives
Directed by Erika Edwards
Auditions: October 8-9
SHOWTIMES:
Thursday, 11/29 @ 8:00 PM
Friday, 11/30 @ 8:00PM
Saturday, 12/1 @ 8:00PM
Sunday, 12/2 @ 2:00 PM + 8:00PM
Monday, 12/3 @ 5PM
Both of these plays were written by students here at UNC! Baby Blue is about the dysfunctional lower-class couple Kenny and Shirley, their baby, and all the horrible cruelties they perform on one another. July House is about upper-class college students and the way the pacts that are made between them disintegrate over time.
By John May and Patrick Robinson
Directed by Travis Wright (Baby Blue) and Katie Chelena (July House)
Auditions: November 12-13
SHOWTIMES:
Thursday, 2/7 @ 8:00 PM: July House
Friday, 2/8 @ 8:00 PM: Baby Blue
Saturday, 2/9 @ 2:00 PM: Baby Blue
Saturday, 2/9 @ 8:00 PM: July House
Sunday, 2/10 @ 2:00 PM: July House
Sunday, 2/10 @ 8:00 PM: Baby Blue
Monday, 2/11 @ 5:00 PM: Baby Blue
Tuesday, 2/12 @ 5:00 PM: July House
Over the course of five weeks, an ensemble of actors and writers will collaborate to write 30 plays, usually between 10 seconds and 3 minutes long. They can include music, dancing, rapping, speaking, singing, musicianship, poetry, short stories, a monologue, a scene with 1 performer, or all of them. Each week for 3 weeks there will be a Wednesday or Thursday evening performance (see below), in which the audience chooses which plays they want to see and in what order - each week, the performers will write new plays!
Original concept by Greg Allen
Directed by Kevin Spellman
Auditions: January 15-17
SHOWTIMES:
Show #1: Thursday, 3/14 @ 8:00PM
Show #2: Thursday, 3/21 @ 8:00PM
Show #3: Wednesday, 3/27 @ 8:00PM
At the turn of the 19th Century, Saartjie Baartman (known as the Venus Hottentot) was taken from her home in Africa and brought to England, where she was exploited and exhibited for her bodily proportions--something of a shock to the Europeans of the time. This play tells the story of Baartman's rise to fame, and her fall from it.
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Kathy Williams
Auditions: November 26-28
SHOWTIMES:
Thursday, 4/11 @ 8:00PM
Friday, 4/12 @ 8:00PM
Saturday, 4/13 @ 8:00PM
Sunday, 4/14 @ 2:00 PM + 8:00PM
Monday, 4/15 @ 5PM
Mistaken identities, love charms and magical encounters all run amok in Shakespeare's classic comedy set in an Athenian forest. The love potions confuse lovers and create havoc and even the fairies are not immune to pranks. This very special production will take audiences out of the theatre and into the beautiful Coker Arboretum on UNC-Chapel Hill's campus!
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Nicola Vann
Auditions: January 15-17
SHOWTIMES:
Thursday, 4/18 @ 8:00PM
Friday, 4/19 @ 8:00PM
Saturday, 4/20 @ 8:00PM
Sunday, 4/21 @ 8:00PM (NO MATINEE)
Monday, 4/22 @ 8:00PM
Tuesday, 4/23 @ 8:00PM