2013/2014 Theater Studies Season
Duke Players Orientation Show
God by Woody Allen
Directed by Mike Myers (T’15)
Brody Theater, East Campus
August 23 & 24 at time tba
August 30 & 31 at 8 pm
Theater Previews New Works Lab
a new play by Sibyl Kempson, source materials are James Agee's
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and Land and Life by Karl Sauer
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
Residency Sept. 16-30, date and time of reading tba
The Narrowing
Written & directed by Ellen Hemphill, Theater Studies faculty
Produced by Archipelago Theatre
The Shadowbox
Sept. 26-Oct. 13
Duke Players Lab Theater
title tba
Brody Theater, East Campus
October 24-26, 8 pm
Uncle Vanya
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Jeff Storer, Theater Studies faculty
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
November 14-16 & 21-23 at 8 pm
November 17 & 24 at 2 pm
Torry Bend (Theater Studies faculty) & Bombadil
a Duke Performances presentation
Durham Arts Council
Jan. 23-25, time tba
Performance = Insurgence Group (P=IG)
Andy Chu's distinction project
Feb. 6-8, times and venue tba
The Man Who
By Peter Brooks
Sam Kebede's distinction project
Brody Theater, East Campus
Feb. 20-23, times tba
Republic
By Hoi Polloi Theater Company
a Theater Studies/Duke Performances presentation
Manbites Dog Theater
Feb. 20-March 1, times tba
An Iliad
By Lisa Peterson & Denis O'Hare
Phil Watson’s distinction project
The Shadowbox
March 20-22, times tba
Duke Players Lab Theater
title tba
Brody Theater, East Campus
March 27-29, 8 pm
The Visit
By Friedrich Durrenmatt
Directed by Jules Odendahl-James, Theater Studies faculty
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
April 3-5 & 10-12 at 8 pm
April 13 & 20 at 2 pm
Parade
Book by Alfred Uhry
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Drew Klingner's distinction project
Produced by Hoof 'n' Horn
Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
April 10-20 & May 9, 10, times tba
New Works Festival
in collaboration with senior seminar
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
April 14-20, times tba
2012/2013 Theater Studies Season
Past shows this season:
Duke Players Orientation Show
A Dopey Fairy Tale and other Vaudevilles:
an evening of Chekhov Parodies
one acts by Neil Simon and Michael Weller
Directed by Molly Forlines (T’13)
Brody Theater, East Campus
August 24 & 25 at 11:30 pm
August 31 & September 1 at 8 pm
Anonymous Ensemble’s Liebe Love Amour!
A live film about love on the silver screen
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
September 14 & 15 at 8 pm
Lecture from Hell
A Solo Performance/Reading by Jay O’Berski, Theater Studies faculty
Directed by Ellen Hemphill, Theater Studies faculty
with a post performance bi-lingual discussion by Denis Guénoun,
visiting writer and director of "Artaud-Barrault", Théâtre de Chaillot, Paris
Brody Theater, East Campus
September 19 at 7 pm
Visit from Turkish-German playwright Nurkan Erpulat
events arount this visit to be announced
September 24-27
How To Build A Forest
an installation/performance with visiting artists
PearlDamour + Shawn Hall
a co-production with the Nicholas School of the Environment
Page Auditorium
October 19, 10 am - 6 pm
October 20, 11 am - 7 pm
October 21, noon - 8 pm
Duke Players Lab Theater - Metamorphoses
By Mary Zimmerman
Directed by Lindsay Samuel
Brody Theater, East Campus
October 25-27 at 8 pm and October 27-28 at 2 pm
The Paper Hat Game
Created and directed by Torry Bend, Theater Studies faculty
Video Design by Raquel Salvatella de Prada, Visual Studies faculty
October 18 - November 3, 2012
Presented as part of Manbites Dog's Other Voices Series
703 Foster Street, Durham, NC
read about the show here
Theater Previews New Works Lab
A Brave Woman in Mexico, the first play in the
three-play cycle So Go the Ghosts of Mexico
by guest playwright Matthew Paul Olmos
directed by guest director Jonathan Cullen
East Duke 209
November 2 & 3 at 8 pm
Pre-show panel discussion Saturday, Nov. 3 in 115 Friedl, adjacent to East Duke. Refreshments will be served.
Women Beware Women
By Thomas Middleton
Directed by Jay O’Berski, Theater Studies faculty
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
November 8-10 & 15-17 at 8 pm
November 11 & 18 at 2 pm
Antic Shakespeare
Brody Theater, East Campus
November 29 & 30, 7 pm
An Evening With Cloud Eye Control
Showing of a multimedia piece in process following a week
residency, as well as finished works by members of the group
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
December 1, 8 pm
End of semester class performances
Dec. 3, The Translatrix from Translation Studies Workshop, Sheafer Theater, 8 pm
Dec. 4, Que Sera Sera from Solo Performance, Brody Theater, 7 pm
Dec. 6, Roses are Blue from Transforming Fiction, Sheafer Theater, 8 pm
Lecture by Bradley Rogers, ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) New Faculty Fellow:
Melodrama, Musical Theatre, and the Politics of Disintegration
Professor Rogers’ paper will examine exactly precisely how musical theatre emerged in the 1860s, going on to argue that the gendered politics that governed its formal emergence in the 19th century remain central to the genre today.
Tuesday, Dec. 4 at 4:30 pm
Sheafer Theater
Lecture by Joseph Roach, theater historian, stage director,
and performance studies scholar, visiting from Yale
Ambient Poetics: The Performing Arts in the Humanities
Thursday, Dec. 6 at 4 pm
FHI Garage
The Miles
Written by and featuring Steven Li (T’13)
(Sr. Distinction Project)
Directed by Marshall Botvinick (T’06)
Brody Theater, East Campus
February 14-16, 8 pm
Theater Previews New Works Lab - Republic
in development during a two-week residency
with Alec Dufffy (T'98) and his company Hoi Polloi
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
February 16, 10 pm - The Georges, a Hoi Polloi musical performance
February 17, 1 to 5 pm - a devised theater workshop
February 22 - open rehearsal
February 23, 8 pm - Work-in-Progress showing of Republic
Waltz, a puppet show
Written and directed by Don Tucker (T’13)
(Sr. Distinction Project)
East Duke 209, East Campus
March 21-23, 8 and 9 pm each evening
Duke Players Lab Theater
- Love Song
By John Kolvenbach
Directed by Kari Barclay
Brody Theater, East Campus
March 28-30, 8 pm & March 31, 2 pm
A reading from The Mythical Bill
by Jody McAuliffe, Theater Studies faculty
Theater Studies Lounge, 109 Page
April 9, 4:30 pm
Lear
By Young Jean Lee
Directed by Jody McAuliffe, Theater Studies faculty
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
April 4-6 and 11-13 at 8 pm and April 7 & 14 at 2 pm
End of semester performances
April 22, 7 pm, Voice/Body Gesture, Brody Theater
April 23, 7 pm, Great American Musical, Reynolds Theater
April 29, 7 pm, American Dreams/American Movies, Page Auditorium
2011/2012 Theater Studies Season
Duke Players Orientation Show
The Real Inspector Hound
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Cameron McCallie (T’12)
Brody Theater, East Campus
August 26 at midnight & 27 at 11:30 pm
September 2, 3 at 8 pm
The Paper Hat Game
Created and directed by Torry Bend
Video design by Raquel Salvatella de Prada
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
September 8-10 & 15-17 at 8 pm
September 11 & 18 at 2 pm
Duke Players Lab Theater
Love and Human Remains
Directed by Steven Li
Brody Theater, East Campus
October 27-29, 8 pm
A Doll’s House
By Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Ellen Hemphill, Theater Studies faculty
Music by Allison Leyton-Brown
Video design by Jim Haverkamp
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
November 10-12 & 17-19 at 8 pm
November 13 & 20 at 2 pm
Antic Shakespeare
a showcase production of scenes and speeches
Directed by Jay O'Berski and Dana Marks
with guest artist Jonathan Cullen
Brody Theater, East Campus
December 3, 7 pm
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Kim Solow (T’12)
Featuring Kirsten Johanssen,
Jennifer Blocker, Kyler Griffin (all T’12)
(Sr. Distinction Project)
Brody Theater, East Campus
February 2-4
Creditors
By August Strindberg
Directed by Ali Yalgin (T’12)
(Sr. Distinction Project)
Brody Theater, East Campus
February 23, 8 pm
February 24-25, 8 pm and 10:30 pm
Duke Players Lab Theater
Lady in the Red Dress
by David Yee
Directed by Alyssa Wong
Brody Theater, East Campus
March 16-18, 8 pm
The Mary Play from the N-Town Cycle
A reading, translated from Middle English
and directed by Mandy Lowell (T’12)
(Sr. Distinction Project)
East Duke 209, East Campus
March 23-24 at 8 pm; 25 at 2 pm
Ragtime
Book by Terrence McNally
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Directed by Jeff Storer, Theater Studies faculty
Produced by Nathaniel Hill (T'12)
(Sr. Distinction Project)
Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
April 5-7, 12-14 at 7:30 pm; April 7,14, 15 at 2 pm
a Karamu & Antic Shakespeare joint production
Black Terror by Richard Wesley performed by Karamu at 8 pm
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare performed by Antic Shakespeare at 9 pm
April 17-19
Brody Theater, free
iWitness
Duke Players presents a multimedia staged reading based on Mike Daisey's The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs and the media firestorm it created
adapted by Theater Studies 138S, video design by Theater Studies 49S
directed by Emma Miller
April 21, 8 pm
East Duke 209, free
End-of-Semester Class Performances
April 23 at 8 pm in Brody Theater - Black Theater Workshop: This is Madness
April 24 at 8 pm in Brody Theater - Voice and Song for Theater: Illusions
April 24 at 7 pm in Sheafer Theater: Senior Seminar: Staged reading of excerpts from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One
April 24 at 7 pm in Reynolds Theater: American Dreams, American Movies, ADAM Awards
April 30 at 7:00 pm in Reynold's Theater: A musical from the American Musical Theater class with special partners from Durham Housing Authority's Hip Hop Club
May 2 at 7 pm in Sheafer Theater: Stage Combat final performance
Related Theater Studies Productions
Glass
Adapted from Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie
Directed by Jay O'Berski, Theater Studies faculty
Common Ground Theater
Sept. 8-24, 2011
A Steady Rain
By Keith Huff
Directed by Jay O'Berski, Theater Studies faculty
Brody Theater, East Campus
Sept. 22-24, 2011
Middletown
By Will Eno
Directed by Jeff Storer, Theater Studies faculty
Manbites Dog Theater
Sept. 29 - Oct. 15, 2011
The Birthday Party
By Harold Pinter
Directed by Jody McAuliffe, Theater Studies faculty
Common Ground Theater
Nov. 4-12, 2011
2010-2011 Theater Studies Season
2011 New Plays Festival
(Sr. Distinction Projects)
new works by Alex Young & Ben Bergmann (T’11)
Brody Theater, East Campus
April 20, 22 (Young) 21, 23 (Bergmann) at 8 pm
End of Semester Workshop Performances
Dollar and a Dream
final performances of Michael Malone’s
Transforming Fiction for Stage and Screen Class
Sunday, April 24 at 7 pm in Brody Theater
This is Madness!
final performances of Jay O’Berski’s
Black Theater Workshop Class
Monday, April 25 at 8 pm in Brody Theater
Das Kapital
by Nick Yu
final performance of Claire Conceison’s
China Theater Experiment Class
Tuesday, April 26 at 8 pm in Sheafer Theater
Other department-related shows:
Stealing Home (the architecture of intimacy)
A solo vocal cabaret by Ellen Hemphill
Song arrangements: Allison Leyton Brown
Vocal direction: Richard Armstrong
Movement Direction: Terry Beck
Film: Jim Haverkamp
Set: Jan Chambers and Tori Ralston
presented by Archipelago Theatre
at Manbites Dog Theater
April 14-23, 2011
Past Plays, 2010-2011 season
The Laramie Project
By Moisés Kaufman & company
Directed by Jeff Storer
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
April 7-9 and 14-16 at 7:30 pm, April 10, 17 at 2 pm
Click here to see a cast video.
Duke Players Lab Theater
The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
The Problem by A.R. Gurney, Jr.
Brody Theater, East Campus
March 24-26 at 8 pm
Hemingway: Death in the Café
(Sr. Distinction Project)
Adapted and directed by Will Sutherland (T’11)
Brody Theater, East Campus
February 17-19 at 8 pm
Proof
by David Auburn
(Sr. Distinction Project)
Featuring Heather Wiese (T’11)
Brody Theater, East Campus
February 3-5 at 8 pm
Duke Players Lab Theater
Poof by Lynn Nottage
The Test by Utrophia Robinson
Brody Theater, East Campus
December 2-4 at 8 pm, December 5 at 2 pm
The Beatification of Area Boy
By Wole Soyinka
Directed by Jody McAuliffe, Theater Studies faculty
Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
October 21-23 & 28-30 at 8 pm, October 24, 31 at 2 pm
http://tickets.duke.edu or 919-684-4444
Eating with Lola
performance by Catherine Hernandez
Sheafer Theater
November 2, 8 pm
co-sponsored by: Center for Canadian Studies, Department of Theater Studies, and Department of Women's Studies
read about the show here
THE THEME IS BLACKNESS
A Festival of Contemporary American Playwrights
Produced by Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern
November 3-13, 2010 at Manbites Dog Theater
co-sponsored by Duke Theater Studies, Manbites Dog Theater and the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture
Two weeks of bold plays and discussions on the state of theater and race in America. With guest appearances by Ed Bullins, Howard L. Craft and Lydia R. Diamond
Featuring:
A world premiere of NIGHT BEAST by Ed Bullins
Directed by Jay O’Berski
Nov. 3-6, 8:15 pm
talkback with playwright after Nov. 3 show
HARRIET JACOBS by Lydia R. Diamond
Directed by Dana Marks
Nov. 10-13, 8:15
talkback with playwright after Nov. 10 show
And a sneak peek at Howard L. Craft’s JADE CITY CHRONICLES
Western Men
By Adam Sobsey
Directed by Jay O'Berski
The Nasher Museum, Duke University
October 15-16, 7 pm; October 17, 2 pm
Duke Players Orientation Show
The Underpants
a wild and crazy play by Steve Martin
Directed by Ben Bergmann (T’11)
Brody Theater, East Campus
August 27th at 11:00 pm & 28th at 11:30 pm
September 3rd at 8:00 pm
& 4th at 11:00 pm
Past Plays, 2009-2010 season
Duke Players Orientation Show
The Lives of Ives
Four one-act plays by David Ives
Directed by Adam Barron (T’10)
Brody Theater
August 22 at 11:30 pm
August 27-29 at 8 pm
free admission
Duke Players Lab Theater
Nevermore
based on works by Edgar Allan Poe
Brody Theater
October 29-31, 8 pm and 11 pm
free admission
The Lower D's
Based on The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky
Directed by Jay O'Berski, Theater Studies faculty
Sheafer Theater
November 12-14, 8 pm; November 15, 2 pm
November 19-21, 8 pm
$10 general admission; $5 students and senior citizens
Scene from The Lower D's, which played in Sheafer Theater November 2009
You, Me, and the Devil:
Stories from Medellín
Written and directed by Danya Taymor (Sr. Distinction Project)
Brody Theater
February 11-13, 8 pm
free admission
Two Small Bodies
By Neal Bell, Theater Studies faculty
Directed by Marshall Botvinick (T'06)
Featuring Brittany Duck (Sr. Distinction Project)
Brody Theater
February 25-27, 8 pm
free admission
Now You See Me
by Neal Bell, Theater Studies faculty
directed by Jody McAuliffe, Theater Studies faculty
Manbites Dog Theater
March 20, 2010, 8 pm
free admission
Duke Players Lab Theater
Closer
by Patrick Marber
Directed by Danya Taymor
Brody Theater
March 25-27, 8 pm
free admission
Black Theater Workshop
Final performances
Brody Theater
April 1, 5 pm
free admission
The Miser
By Molière
Translated and adapted by Elisabeth Lewis Corley
Directed by Joseph Megel
Original music by David Garner and Alex Kotch
performed by the Duke New Music Ensemble
Sheafer Theater
April 8-10, 8 pm; April 11, 2 pm
April 15-17, 8 pm; April 18, 2 pm
$10 general admission; $5 students and senior citizens
PRE-SHOW DISCUSSION April 8 with visiting Molière scholar
Mechele Leon from University of Kansas, 6:45 pm 0010 Bryan Center
Scene from The Miser, Sheafer Theater, April 2010
Theater 2010: New Plays Festival
Plays written, directed and produced by students
Brody Theater
April 12, 19, 7 pm
free admission
Musical Theater Workshop
Final performances
Sheafer Theater
April 26, 7 pm
free admission
Above, watch the video of The Miles, Steven Li's distinction project play which ran in Feb. 2013.
Posters for end-of-fall semester shows!
Scenes below from Duke Players' latest show, Metamorphoses.
UNLEASH THE HELLHOUNDS OF LOVE
Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women burns with feverish characters who manipulate the desires and fears of both their enemies and friends. This lost classic hums with the sensuality of a film noir and howls with comedic characters that spiral into a passion pit of their own making.
Video trailer for Women Beware Women above and stills from the shoot below.
Sheafer Theater November 8-18.
Ellen Hemphill's Voice and Song for Theater class performs its end of semester show.
Cast of Coriolanus, above and Black Terror, below, which played April 17-19 in Brody Theater
Ragtime slideshow
Ragtime, the musical is a historic collaboration between Theater Studies, Dance, Music, Hoof 'n' Horn and the Duke Chamber Players.
Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center,
April 5-7, 12-14 at 7:30 pm
April 7,14, 15 at 2 pm
Check this trailer for A Doll's House, running in Sheafer Theater Nov. 10-20, 2011.
Love and Human Remains
by Brad Fraser
This comedy-drama follows the lives of several sexually frustrated "thirty-somethings" who try to learn the meaning of love — during a time in which a serial killer is terrorizing the city.
Wendell Theater presents A Steady Rain by Keith Huff.
Directed by Theater Studies Faculty member, Jay O'Berski
Brody Theater, East Campus
Sept. 22-24, 2011
Tickets: $5 students, $7 public. Payment can be made either with cash or FLEX
Tickets/info: Ali Yalgın <ayalgin@gmail.com>
Featuring Ted Caywood, Kyle Glackin and Nnenna Bodden
(all T'12)
Joey and Denny are two Chicago police officers and lifelong best friends. Joey is single and lonely. Denny is married with children. Both have serious problems. While Joey struggles with a drinking problem and secretly loves Denny's wife, Connie, Denny can barely disguise his racism and cheats on Connie with a prostitute on his beat. When they inadvertently return a boy to a cannibalistic serial killer who claims to be the child's uncle, their friendship spirals and the membrane of desire and lies is ripped apart.
Don't miss our orientation show!
The Real Inspector Hound
By Tom Stoppard
Hysteria ensues in this wild, farcical murder mystery! So whodunit? Come find out in Brody Theater!
August 26 at midnight & 27 at 11:30 pm
September 2, 3 at 8 pm
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*free pizza on the Brody porch before the show at 7 pm on Sept. 2nd and 3rd!
The Laramie Project ran April 7-17 in Sheafer Theater. Meet some of the cast in this video.
Watch this trailer for Ellen Hemphill's show, Stealing Home (the architecture of intimacy)
presented by Archipelago Theatre
at Manbites Dog Theater
April 14-23, 2011
Click through this slide show from The Beatification of Area Boy.
Check out this trailer for The Theme is Blackness Festival.
Green screen magic - all part of making "The Beatification of Area Boy" come alive! For a behind-the-scenes look at the birthing of our fall play, follow our blog at http://beatificationofareaboy.blogspot.com/
Resurrection from the Rubble
The Department of Theater Studies is proud to co-sponsor a visit of the Resurrection Dance Theater of Haiti to Duke for a dancing and drumming Master Class on Saturday, Sept. 18 from 11:30 am to 2 pm (co-sponsored with Dance and Music) at The Ark on East Campus and a dance theater performance, Resurrection from the Rubble, in Reynolds Theater in the Bryan Center at 4 pm on Sunday, Sept. 19. Tickets for the dance performance are at tickets.duke.edu or 919-684-4444 $10 general admission, $5 students and sr. citizens.
Scenes from Out of the Blue, an original play by faculty member Ellen Hemphill, which recently played in Sheafer Theater.
Buy Tickets
Duke box office for upcoming events
Tickets go on sale for mainstage performances one month before the production at University Box Office (919/684-4444 or tickets.duke.edu). Other performances sell tickets at the door only, and some are free.
This schedule is tentative. Times and locations of performances are subject to change. Please check before performance.