July 3, 2013
Austin, TX – Amidst the closure of an exciting season, The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to introduce the 2009 – 2010, production season. The upcoming season boasts groundbreaking new works, American classics, annual favorites, and the newly added The University Co-op Presents the Cohen New Works Festival ENCORE! performance of “The Psyche Project.”
THE 2009–2010 DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND DANCE SEASON
FALL 2009
The University Co-op Presents the
Cohen New Works Festival ENCORE!
Featuring The Psyche Project
Written by Jenny Connell in collaboration with The Ensemble
Directed by Marie Brown
September
Oscar G. Brockett Theatre
Fast, Funny and irreverent, The Psyche Project retells the myth of Eros and Psyche, two star-crossed lovers who married in secret, ticked off the Goddess of Love, and went to hell and back to keep their marriage together. See what happens when Greek Myth goes modern, hell is mall, and Eros upgrades from arrow to a semi-automatic.
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
Written by Louis Sachar
Directed by Brian C. Fahey
October 2 – 11
Oscar G. Brockett Theatre
Tickets $20/$17/$15
Austin-based writer Louis Sachar's own stage adaptation of his 1990 Texas Bluebonnet Award-winning children's novel tells the tale of Bradley, a fifth grade bully, who through a series of hilarious and poignant incidents learns to open up and reform his bullying ways.
The Trojan Women
Written by Euripides
Adapted by Meghan Kennedy and Kimber Lee
Directed by Halena Kays
October 30 – November 8
Oscar G. Brockett Theatre
Tickets $20/$17/$15
In aftermath of the Trojan War, the gods watch as a small group of women wait to be taken away by the conquering army. Stripped of family, home, and power, the women must learn to fight for survival. Although their gods are silent and their city destroyed, these last living remnants of a once great city struggle to find hope and to shine a light into one of the darkest realms of human experience.
Pride and Prejudice
Based on the novel by Jane Austen
Adapted by James Maxwell
Directed by Gavin Cameron-Webb
November 13 – 22
B. Iden Payne Theatre
Tickets $20/$17/$15
The Bennets, a middle-class family, are desperate to find wealthy husbands for their five daughters. When a bachelor rents a nearby cottage, the mother swings into matchmaking action and the romantic comedy unwinds. One daughter refuses the demands of society, inspiring strong women everywhere to speak their minds.
Dance Repertory Theatre Fall Showing
Preview of Canción Del Cuerpo (Song of the Body)
Artistic Director Lyn Wiltshire
Co-Artistic Director Yacov Sharir
December 4 – 5
B. Iden Payne Theatre
Free
A free public showing of works in progress by UT's student dance company, Dance Repertory Theatre.
Spring 2010
UT New Theatre (UTNT)
Written by M.F.A. in Playwriting Candidates
Curated by Steven Dietz
February 12 – 28
Lab Theatre
Free
Yearly showcase of new plays written by 3rd year M.F.A. in Playwriting candidates.
Dance Repertory Theatre presents
Canción Del Cuerpo (Song of the Body)
Artistic Director Lyn Wiltshire
Co-Artistic Director Yacov Sharir
March 5 – 7
B. Iden Payne Theatre
Tickets $20/$17/$15
The final product of skillful choreography and collective performance originally presented in the Fall Showing featuring dance works by faculty and guest choreographers, in cross-cultural collaboration with guest artists from Columbia, South America.
Our Town
Written by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Marie Brown
April 2 – 11
Oscar G. Brockett Theatre
Tickets $20/$17/$15
A new interpretation of Wilder's classic piece, Our Town details the interactions between citizens of an everyday town in the early twentieth century through their everyday lives. The play is openly set in a theatre, and the audience's guide through the history of the town is known as the Stage Manager.
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
Libretto by Mac Wellman
Composed by David Lang
Directed by Luke Leonard
April 23 – May 2
B. Iden Payne Theatre
Tickets $20/$17/$15
Based on the story of a slave-owning farmer who walks across a cotton field in Selma, Alabama and disappears. Beneath the field is the strain of slavery, so embedded in this nation's history and covered up, the more the witnesses try to recount the disappearance, the more elusive it becomes. Crossing the boundaries of opera and theatre, this new music theatre mixes arias with spoken text and emotional melodies with intense drama.
Ears, Eyes + Feet
May 7 – 8
B. Iden Payne Theatre
Free
Collaborative works by student and faculty composers, choreographers, and video artists from the Department of Theatre and Dance, the Department of Art and Art History and The Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music.