THEATRE PERFORMANCES 2023 / 24
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- General Admission tickets are $20
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The Walk with Little Amal & Co- Laboratory - Chicanx Teatro Ensemble, Dance, Design & UCSD Center for Global Justice
This is a site specific community engagement project that will intersect with the giant puppet Little Amal, which is the centrepiece of a global performance art project called The Walk. Amal’s journey as a simulated refugee girl who crosses international borders (U.S. into Mexico) is the starting point for the Co-Laboratory to bring awareness to current critical issues of environmental justice, war, socio-political issues, and their resulting impact on migration, immigration, and refugees, culminating in a collectively created performance event. The creative process will be led by Robert Castro (Chicanx Teatro Ensemble), Ana María Alvarez (Dance) and Victoria Petrovich (Design).
Orlando
Sheila & Hughes Potiker Theatre. Dec. 1 - Dec. 9
Orlando is a nobleman whose life is full of Elizabethan man things, like having sword fights and seducing beautiful women. Everyone is certain about Orlando’s gender; in fact, the opening line describing Orlando is, “he - for there could be no doubt of his sex - though the fashion of the age did something to disguise it…” And yet, there is doubt, and not just because of Orlando’s puffy pants. One night, Orlando goes to bed as usual and wakes up the next morning as a woman. Everything has changed, but Orlando is still…Orlando. As she moves through centuries of life, gender norms and expectations shift around Orlando, but she constantly finds herself reaching to understand the person she used to be, the person she is now, and the person she is in the process of becoming.
The Promise
Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre. Nov. 30 - Dec. 2
Jose Rivera's "The Promise" uses magical realism in telling the story of two star-crossed young lovers, Lilia and Carmelo Guzman. Lilia's father is determined to settle a blood feud-- a broken vow alluded to in the play's title. Gusmán is determined to have his daughter marry someone of his choosing by any means necessary, even employing his fighting chicken. Lollín's children eat trucks, and Milton, Lilia's brother, goes on a quest to find himself as Clint (or Dodge?) within the Arizona desert. The play ends with the breaking of a vicious cycle of codependency and Lilia taking the lead in her own life. This production explores love in all of its different forms and the struggle to break away from mere survival.
X
Mandell Weiss Theatre. Feb. 23 - Mar. 2
When X by Alistair McDowall begins, we are introduced to five travelers waiting to be picked up from their mission on planet Pluto. We are in a near future where much of the earth is no longer habitable, and Pluto is being explored as a viable option for human life. But their research base has lost radio signal, and their expedition has already lasted much longer than expected. The group is tasked with trying to determine if their pickup is late, if their pickup is no longer coming, or--most frighteningly-if they've lost contact with their pickup because earth itself has ceased to exist. As the passing time becomes increasingly more difficult to track, events begin to move out of sequence, and the line between what is real and what isn't becomes blurred. The travelers are desperate to sort through their fragmented memories, and to maintain control of their own lives. X is an evocative, hilarious, and devastating play that uses the metaphor of being lost in space to explore the loss of personal and collective memory. As we as a planet creep closer and closer to having to face the existential threat of environmental degradation, X could not be more timely. How do we want to be remembered, and who will remain to remember us?
Studio Shakes - Double Bill
Arthur Wagner Theatre. Feb. 29 - Mar. 9
Romeo & Juliet (abridged version)
A queer retelling of Shakespeare's classic story of forbidden love.
The Comedy of Errors (abridged version)
The Comedy of Errors, is a Shakespeare classic involving two sets of identical twins with multiple identity confusions. In a tragic series of events, they are separated by a shipwreck and end up in rival cities. After twenty years apart, they inadvertently cross paths on a bustling dock, where justice is rough and disorder thrives. What follows is utter chaos including marital assumptions, Doctor Pinch - schoolteacher, conjurer, and would-be exorcist - and much reconciling and pardoning as we uncover the many mix-ups in this wild web of identity assumptions!
Wagner New Play Festival 2024
Apr. 26 - May 18
The 2024 Wagner New Play Festival will feature brand new plays by the five MFA playwrights: Agyeiwaa Asante, Milo Cramer, Mylan Gray, Beth Hyland, and Phanésia Pharel. Two plays will be performed in rep in the Potiker Theatre with a single design team. Two plays will be performed in rep in the Shank Theatre with a single design team. Directors TBD. The fifth play will be performed in a non-traditional space and created in collaboration with student performers and designers, led by a prominent guest artist with a strong foundation in immersive, experimental, or site-specific performance.
Details to come soon.
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