The Rimers of Eldritch
For the first time, the considerable talents of the Bachelor of Fine Arts sophomore class will be highlighted in two plays.
Past Productions
The Country Wife
One of the funniest comedies of the Restoration, The Country Wife paints a picture of a rakish hero named Horner, who regularly brags, cheats and lies to seduce the wives and daughters of London’s most prominent businessmen.
A Little Night Music
A tangled web of intrigue surrounds famous actress Desirée Armfeldt and her weekend guests: an ex-lover, his much-younger bride and his son (a divinity student), her current paramour and his wife.
Camille
The doomed love affair between a Parisian courtesan and a country nobleman in the 1840s is rendered for the modern stage in this adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic.
The Learned Ladies
Love and knowledge battle it out in Molière’s rollicking satire on intellectual snobbery and pretension. This work is one of the comic master’s most beloved plays.
The Oresteia Project
Inspired by the seminal trilogy of tragedies by Aeschylus, this modern adaptation was created by the company of actors in a creative collaboration with director David Bridel.
The Threepenny Opera
A seamy underworld of hoodlums, prostitutes and back-stabbers are our storytellers in this savage, biting commentary on modern morality.
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
Anna Deavere Smith’s stunning work of documentary theatre weaves a portrait of real individuals who experienced the violent aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King trial.
Marisol
There’s a war in heaven, and it’s spilling over into New York City. After Marisol’s guardian angel quits, the young copy editor is thrust into the throes of the battle in José Rivera’s darkly humorous apocalyptic urban fantasy.
La Ronde
La Ronde bares the interwoven tale of a risqué roundelay of love affairs. Scrutinized upon its publishing in 1900 for its hypersexual content, Arthur Schnitzler’s provocative play examines morals and class ideology.