Current Season
Provocative Tales: Eccentrics, Beasts and Misfits
Theater Emory is the resident professional company where undergraduates work alongside professional theater artists, producing classics with a fresh approach and innovative new work.
September 27-30, 2012-One Week Only!
Comic Mysteries (Mistero Buffo)
Theater Lab, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Dario Fo’s comedy confronts contemporary attitudes about spirituality and politics using ancient comic techniques. Presented by students and professional actors in a lively, street theater style. Highly physical with a strong political statement and references to current pop culture icons.
Nov. 8-10 and 14*-17 at 7 pm.; Nov. 11 & 18 at 2 p.m. *Nov. 14 is Pay-What-You-Can-At-the-Door Night (min. $1)
Grim, Grimmer, Grimmest: Tales of a Precarious Nature
Mary Gray Munroe Theater, Dobbs University Center
Shocking, forbidden and magical stories of the Brothers Grimm and tales from other cultures travel to places of disequilibrium and transformation.
Developed in the 2011 Brave New Works festival.
February 14-24, 2013
Watching Chekhov Watching
Theater Lab, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Anton Chekhov stared at humanity with a physician’s eye and wrote mesmerizing tales of daily life and the absurd complexities of human impulse. Original adaptations of the master storyteller’s short fiction into theater from Michael Evenden and Lisa Paulsen, and film by Nicholos Surbey and Nikoloz Kevkhishvili.
April 4-14, 2013
The Cherry Orchard
Mary Gray Munroe Theater, Dobbs University Center
Chekhov knew he was dying as he wrote his last play, a moving comedy about the necessity ofletting go of what we love. Every moment is ephemeral in this story of childish misfits who live in the past or the future rather than the present. A masterpiece about transition that itself transitioned theater into a new age.