American Ideas
American
Masters
The
UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre explores the American
experience in the 2009-2010 season through the works of
master playwrights of our country and innovative approaches
to the art of story and stagecraft.
Mainstage
Plays
Performed in the Anne R. Belk
Theater
Tickets:
$6 Students, $9 Faculty, Staff
& Seniors
$14 General Public
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
October 28 – 31 at 8:00
p.m.
November 1 at 2:00 p.m.
With themes just as potent in post-9/11 America as they were
five decades ago, Arthur Miller's classic drama of
integrity, jealousy, and fundamentalism run amuck features
some of his most vivid prose as a playwright. Reflecting
the author's own dealings with the communist paranoia of the
1950's, it brilliantly transports those experiences to
actual witch hunts of colonial Salem, Massachusetts and
poses the question: What moral price would a person pay in
order to save his or her own life?
Assassins
Book by John Weidman
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
April 14-17 at 8:00 p.m.
April 18 at 2:00 p.m.
Bold, original, surreal, disturbing, thought-provoking and
alarmingly funny, Assassins lays bare the lives of
nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate
the President of the United States as it exposes the dark
side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to
Lee Harvey Oswald, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman take us
on a nightmarish rollercoaster ride in which assassins and
would-be assassins from different historical periods meet,
interact and in an intense final scene inspire each other to
harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream.
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Lab Theater Plays
Performed in the Robinson Hall
Black Box
Tickets:
$6 Students, $7 Faculty, Staff
& Seniors
$9 General Public
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by Melissa James Gibson
October 7-10, 15-17 at 8:00 p.m.
October 11 at 2:00 p.m.
Three young urban failures try to navigate their triangular
friendship and uncertain future. With Melissa James
Gibson's heightened language and innovative structure,
[sic] is a contemporary exploration of solitude,
stability, and life in the world after college.
Tales of the Lost Formicans
by Constance Congdon
December 9-12 at 8:00 p.m.
December 11 at 2:00 p.m.
Time Magazine calls it “A travel guide to Middle
America conducted by aliens from outer space … If not the
best new play of recent years, surely the most imaginative.”
This innovative production is the first in a new series of
experimental performance projects and is produced in
collaboration with the School of Architecture’s Digital
Design Center.
Topdog/Underdog
By Suzan-Lori Parks
February 24-27, March 4-6 at 8:00 p.m.
February 28 at 2:00 p.m.
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize winning drama chronicles
the adult lives of Booth and Lincoln, two rival
African-American brothers who have struggled together since
their teenage years, as they cope with women, work, poverty,
gambling, racism, and their troubled upbringings.
The
Student One-Act Play Festival: Welcome to the Moon and Other
Plays
by John Patrick Shanley
March 25-28 at 8:00 p.m.
March 29 at 2:00 p.m.
Winner of an Academy Award for his screenplay Moonstruck and
more recently a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize for his play
Doubt, John Patrick Shanley uses six short vignettes to
present the multifaceted nature of love – from warm and
light-hearted romance to more enigmatic, even sinister
manifestations.
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