September 26-29, October 3-6, 2012

War, honor, family, revenge. These central Shakespearean themes get their first bracing examination in the Bard's early tragedy. Titus is Rome's greatest general and the head of a noble Roman family. When his armies vanquish the Goths, their defeated queen unleashes a fury that rocks Titus's city, devastates his children, and shatters his sense of self. The cycle of revenge is shocking, bloody, and all-encompassing, but expressed through poetry and theatricality as vivid, energized, and thrilling as anything in Shakespeare's later works. It is undeniably a play for our time: a sophisticated blend of heart-stopping drama and pitch black humor.

Directed by D. Scott Glasser

November 14-17, 28 - December 1, 2012

Adapted from a great 12th century Persian epic, Mirror of the Invisible World tells the story of a young King, who, after falling in love with seven princesses—each from a different land—builds seven pavilions to house his beautiful brides. Each night, a different princess weaves for him another wondrous tale of love, loss and adventure. 8 actors transform these stories into an enchanting theatrical evening.

Directed by Dr. Cindy Melby Phaneuf

February 12-16, 27, March 1, 2013

Aphra Behn is getting out of the spy trade and into show biz, if she can only write her play without interruptions from her love life—celebrity Nell Gwynne, King Charles II, and double-agent William Scott, among others. While war rages and Aphra and her friends celebrate free love, cross-dressing and pastoral lyricism, the 1660s start to look a lot like the 1960s. Verse or prose, now or then, love or death…And a lot of kissing.

Directed by Sarah Fogarty Campbell (Graduate Final Project)

February 19-23, February 28, March 2, 2013

A seriocomic, kaleidoscopic exploration of the intersection between origin, history, and memory as a child is born in the U.S. in the year 1963. A President is about to be assassinated, a country singer dies, a senator falls from grace, and two surfers look for bliss in the imagined Scottish skies.

Directed by Thais Flaitt Giannoccaro (Graduate Final Project)

April 10-13, 17-20, 2013

Between 1787 and 1868, the British Crown shipped men, women, and children in bondage to the British penal colony of Australia. A riotous group of disparate cellmates transforms during the six month sea journey to a tough, unified matriarchal society—ready to change the wild land they are about to inhabit into a more just place than the England they left behind. As songs of the period punctuate and underscore the action, these women strive to prove themselves more civilized below deck than their male captors above.

Directed by Dr. Doug Paterson