DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
Theatre at UMBC stimulates, challenges, and inspires. Students develop theatre skills under the tutelage of an internationally acclaimed faculty, whose work with students in the classroom and on the stage has resulted in seven appearances at the American College Theatre Festival at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center. The curriculum focuses on production and a unique exploration of evocative plays, both comedic and dramatic, classic and contemporary. Small class sizes and a dedicated faculty create a community focused on each student’s individual development as a person and as an artist.
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Upcoming Productions
October 24-27, 2013
Eurydice
by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Nyalls Hartman
A modern retelling of the classic myth of Orpheus who descends into the Underworld to retrieve his young bride, Eurydice, from Death’s amorous arms. Told from Eurydice’s point-of-view, the story follows her odyssey through the Underworld as she seeks love, meaning, and rebirth. Visually stunning and poetic, the play mirrors the dreamy and sometimes treacherous landscape of Eurydice’s inner life where she can’t always remember who she is and can’t always recognize the signs along the way. As Eurydice struggles for self-knowledge, we—like the characters—discover the sacrifices that must be made to achieve a deeply meaningful love, and what happens when love is found, but remains illusory and unattainable.
November 21-24, 2013
Kid Simple
by Jordan Harrison
Directed by Michele Minnick
Moll, girl genius, who lives with her Mother and Father in “the finest cul-de-sac of a peaceful town”, invents a machine for hearing sounds that cannot be heard. She wins the science fair, and unknowingly lets her heart, and her machine, “The Third Ear”, be stolen by an evil shape-shifting mercenary. In this quirky, thrilling, and hilarious live-performance radio play, Moll teams up with Oliver, the last boy virgin in the 11th grade, and heads off on a life-threatening adventure to rescue her invention and, with “Triple A” commercials included, save sound as we know it. Will Moll’s vibrating ossicle fall into the wrong hands? Will the virgin Oliver be seduced by the dark side? Will life as we know it be destroyed forever? Stay tuned… and tune in, as Kid-Simple weaves the worlds of radio drama, science fiction, film noir, and live-theatre into a modern fable you won’t soon forget!
