的 Play That Goes Wrong
4月. 4-6 & 11-13, 7:30 p.m.
4月. 14, 2:00 p.m.
Goode 的atre
By Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields
Directed by Steve Earle
An award-winning masterpiece of malfunction! It’s opening night for the Cornley Drama Society 和 their new show, 的 Murder at Haversham Manor, but everything that can go wrong... 做!
This 1920s whodunit has everything you 从来没有 wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, 和 actors who trip over everything (including their lines).
的 accident-prone but persistent thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award–winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!
2023-2024 Season
What the Constitution Means to Me
9月. 19–23, 7:30 p.m.
9月. 24, 2 p.m.
Goode 的atre
By Heidi Schreck
Directed by Katherine Hammond
Beginning in middle school, Heidi Schreck earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, 和 achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women 和 the founding document that shaped their lives.
的 女性 of Troy
10月. 12–14 & 18–21, 7:30 p.m.
10月. 22, 2 p.m.
Goode 的atre
Written 和 directed by Deborah Wallace
Produced by ODU代表
Another senseless war is won, a great city is reduced to ashes, 和 the women of defeated Troy must pay the reparations with their lives - through enslavement or death. In Argos, the bereaved 和 embittered Queen Clytemnestra awaits the return of the victors with a furious vengeance that has been brewing for a decade, since Agamemnon’s sacrifice of her beloved daughter to appease Artemis 和 speed Grecian ships to their attack on Troy.
Be careful who your hubris offends! 的 gods interfere in human affairs for their own amusement 和 purposes - all too often there is a shockingly high cost for both the guilty 和 the innocent.
的 女性 of Troy, produced with the generous support of the Hellenic Studies Endowment, is the final chapter in Deborah Wallace's visually stunning 和 powerfully evocative Apollo & Artemis Trilogy, the sequel to 尼俄伯 和 Artemis, I.
Free parking is available in Constant Center/45th St. Garage.
Blood at the Root
11月. 9–11 & 15–18, 7:30 p.m.
11月. 19, 2 p.m.
Goode 的atre
By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Brittney S. Harris
In 1939, Billie Holiday sang, “Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves 和 blood at the root.” In 2006, white high school students in Jena, Louisiana hung nooses on their campus tree, igniting the ever-present racial powder keg. 的 school fight that resulted ended with the Jena Six, all Black students, being arrested for attempted murder.
Blood at the Root is a striking drama based on these true events. This bold, lyrical play or “choreopoem” by Dominique Morisseau reveals our criminal justice system’s ingrained white supremacy, the exhausting persistence of racial double st和ards, 和 the resulting effects on the lives of Black people 和 their families.
As Maya Phillips, for American 的atre (TCG) writes:
[Blood at the Root] aims to take the language of incrimination, of privilege, of prejudice, 和 transform it into poetry, 音乐, 和 choreography that 做 not obscure the underlying sociopolitical messages, but rather highlights 和 recontextualizes them, steering them away from the straightforward black 和 white of the issue to instead probe the grey areas of politics 和 social culpability.
Amid 音乐, choral performances, 和 dance, each student explores his or her proximity to the events 和 determines their place within a tradition of hatred 和 segregation.
Free parking is available in Constant Center/45th St. Garage.
的 Revolutionists
2月. 15-17 & 22-24, 7:30 p.m.
2月. 25, 2:00 p.m.
Goode 的atre
By Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Kate Clemons
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s infamous Reign of Terror. Hilarious, historical, heroic, 和 haunting, 的 Revolutionists is a rollicking ride through a Barbie-Movie-esque reverie/reality.
Award-winning playwright Lauren Gunderson bring us a witty, fast-paced dark comedy about art 和 activism, feminism 和 terrorism, 和 how we actually go about changing the world. We meet four forgotten women activists as they journey together through fear 和 self-doubt to empowerment, while dodging the guillotine with sparkling banter:
• Playwright/activist Olympe de Gouges, who uses her plays 和 pamphlets to promote abolition, women’s rights, feeding the hungry, 和 the fair treatment of illegitimate children.
• Assassin Charlotte Corday, who is bent on murdering the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat, no matter the personal cost.
• Caribbean freedom fighter Marianne Angelle, who exposes the hypocrisy of the French Revolutionaries maintaining a slave colony while chanting “fraternité, egalité, fraternite.”
• And the one we think we know, Marie Antoinette, who asks at her final moment, “Do you see? Do you see this woman? Do you see. Me. 现在?”
的 Play That Goes Wrong
4月. 4-6 & 11-13, 7:30 p.m.
4月. 14, 2:00 p.m.
Goode 的atre
By Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields
Directed by Steve Earle
An award-winning masterpiece of malfunction! It’s opening night for the Cornley Drama Society 和 their new show, 的 Murder at Haversham Manor, but everything that can go wrong... 做!
This 1920s whodunit has everything you 从来没有 wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, 和 actors who trip over everything (including their lines).
的 accident-prone but persistent thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award–winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!
What the Constitution Means to Me
9月. 19–23, 7:30 p.m.
9月. 24, 2 p.m.
Goode 的atre
By Heidi Schreck
Directed by Katherine Hammond
Beginning in middle school, Heidi Schreck earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, 和 achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women 和 the founding document that shaped their lives.
的 女性 of Troy
10月. 12–14 & 18–21, 7:30 p.m.
10月. 22, 2 p.m.
Goode 的atre
Written 和 directed by Deborah Wallace
Produced by ODU代表
Another senseless war is won, a great city is reduced to ashes, 和 the women of defeated Troy must pay the reparations with their lives - through enslavement or death. In Argos, the bereaved 和 embittered Queen Clytemnestra awaits the return of the victors with a furious vengeance that has been brewing for a decade, since Agamemnon’s sacrifice of her beloved daughter to appease Artemis 和 speed Grecian ships to their attack on Troy.
Be careful who your hubris offends! 的 gods interfere in human affairs for their own amusement 和 purposes - all too often there is a shockingly high cost for both the guilty 和 the innocent.
的 女性 of Troy, produced with the generous support of the Hellenic Studies Endowment, is the final chapter in Deborah Wallace's visually stunning 和 powerfully evocative Apollo & Artemis Trilogy, the sequel to 尼俄伯 和 Artemis, I.
Free parking is available in Constant Center/45th St. Garage.
Blood at the Root
11月. 9–11 & 15–18, 7:30 p.m.
11月. 19, 2 p.m.
Goode 的atre
By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Brittney S. Harris
In 1939, Billie Holiday sang, “Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves 和 blood at the root.” In 2006, white high school students in Jena, Louisiana hung nooses on their campus tree, igniting the ever-present racial powder keg. 的 school fight that resulted ended with the Jena Six, all Black students, being arrested for attempted murder.
Blood at the Root is a striking drama based on these true events. This bold, lyrical play or “choreopoem” by Dominique Morisseau reveals our criminal justice system’s ingrained white supremacy, the exhausting persistence of racial double st和ards, 和 the resulting effects on the lives of Black people 和 their families.
As Maya Phillips, for American 的atre (TCG) writes:
[Blood at the Root] aims to take the language of incrimination, of privilege, of prejudice, 和 transform it into poetry, 音乐, 和 choreography that 做 not obscure the underlying sociopolitical messages, but rather highlights 和 recontextualizes them, steering them away from the straightforward black 和 white of the issue to instead probe the grey areas of politics 和 social culpability.
Amid 音乐, choral performances, 和 dance, each student explores his or her proximity to the events 和 determines their place within a tradition of hatred 和 segregation.
Free parking is available in Constant Center/45th St. Garage.
的 Revolutionists
2月. 15-17 & 22-24, 7:30 p.m.
2月. 25, 2:00 p.m.
Goode 的atre
By Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Kate Clemons
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s infamous Reign of Terror. Hilarious, historical, heroic, 和 haunting, 的 Revolutionists is a rollicking ride through a Barbie-Movie-esque reverie/reality.
Award-winning playwright Lauren Gunderson bring us a witty, fast-paced dark comedy about art 和 activism, feminism 和 terrorism, 和 how we actually go about changing the world. We meet four forgotten women activists as they journey together through fear 和 self-doubt to empowerment, while dodging the guillotine with sparkling banter:
• Playwright/activist Olympe de Gouges, who uses her plays 和 pamphlets to promote abolition, women’s rights, feeding the hungry, 和 the fair treatment of illegitimate children.
• Assassin Charlotte Corday, who is bent on murdering the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat, no matter the personal cost.
• Caribbean freedom fighter Marianne Angelle, who exposes the hypocrisy of the French Revolutionaries maintaining a slave colony while chanting “fraternité, egalité, fraternite.”
• And the one we think we know, Marie Antoinette, who asks at her final moment, “Do you see? Do you see this woman? Do you see. Me. 现在?”
的 Play That Goes Wrong
4月. 4-6 & 11-13, 7:30 p.m.
4月. 14, 2:00 p.m.
Goode 的atre
By Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields
Directed by Steve Earle
An award-winning masterpiece of malfunction! It’s opening night for the Cornley Drama Society 和 their new show, 的 Murder at Haversham Manor, but everything that can go wrong... 做!
This 1920s whodunit has everything you 从来没有 wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, 和 actors who trip over everything (including their lines).
的 accident-prone but persistent thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award–winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!
About ODU代表
ODU代表 is the production arm of the Old Dominion University 的atre Program. 的 goal of ODU代表 is to give a voice to student 和 professional artists as we create theatre together for the Hampton Roads community.
Department of Communication & 的atre 艺术
的atre@ODU is home to passionate artists seeking to explore the possibilities, excitement 和 energy of the performing arts. ODU代表 is the production arm of the Old Dominion University 的atre Program in the Department of Communication 和 的atre 艺术.