Collaboration between UW MFA students and Book-It theatre professionals
Watch as the creative process revs up and words fly off the page when PATP students explore a series of works-in-progress with Book-It Theatre. This new collaboration between Book-It and UW Drama aims to expose students and audiences to the process of play development.
EMMA
by Jane Austen
adapted by Michael Bloom
directed by Victor Pappas
Guest director Victor Pappas returns to present Jane Austen's Emma. With her characteristic wit and style, Austen introduces us to a young woman who is about to learn a few lessons on love. In Michael Bloom's adaptation, Emma is a confident matchmaker whose single-minded purpose sometimes gets in the way of kindness, to her own chagrin. Her doting father feels content that she will never marry. Emma believes this to be true.
The Illusion is an adaptation by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner of Pierre Corneille's seventeenth-century comedy. The illusion: Is the play reality once removed, or is reality the play itself? Test your wits along with Plato in this tale about a father's love for his son and the complications of romantic love as revealed by an all-powerful sorcerer. Directed by MFA directing candidate Andrew McGinn.
What's the difference between performance art and the art of performance? Discover the unique blend that MFA students from UW Drama and the Dance Program have created. This collaborative concoction melds physical movement and dramatic expression in a way that's sure to inspire a leap of faith into new forms of entertainment.
Rough Magic reminds us of action movies, sci-fi thrillers, and comic book heroes all at once - with a healthy dash of Shakespeare. The Tempest evoked brings Caliban to New York in search of a raven-haired maiden and her 17-year-old lifeguard sidekick. These three and Tisiphone (a fury from ancient Greece) go up against Prospero and his evil offspring in a fight to save magic and Manhattan.
Professor Jeffrey Fracé and an ensemble are building a play from the ground up. Harp Song for a Radical is loosely based on Marguerite Young's biography and inspired by the life of labor activist Eugene V. Debs. The work explores how the "ordinary guy" makes a decision to act, and in so doing becomes a hero. This collaboration with the History Department also examines labor and politics, past and present.
