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In order to continue creating and making theater safely during a global pandemic, the Department of Theater had to do things a little bit differently for the University Theater spring 2021 production. This take on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” involved virtual rehearsals, individual filming, and video editing.

From the pre-made geometry of virtual rubrics, we share on screens, a group of students are willing to ask the question: Is it still possible to experience moments of heightened attention together?

In an era of economic inequity, social inequality, climate distress, and civil unrest these ancient voices reach across the millennia and the grave to ask, time and time again, “Will you help me? Will you help me lift the body?”

Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. It is a world where one knows not the power she possesses because it is against one’s time, a world that fights for the allowance of female ambition and deep kinship of sisterhood through pain and sacrifice.

A collection of innovative dance works, featuring choreography by students, faculty, and a guest artist. Performed by �IJʿ��� students.

Far Away written by Caryl Churchill depicts human survival in a dystopian world. Four characters and a large ensemble face the reality of what was feared the most, at the time. 

In �IJʿ���’s pared-down version of The Seagull, Chekhov's first great play reveals the full force of its comedy and cruelty — whether it’s love, sex, incredible fame, or simply a trip into town, each character is denied the thing they most crave.

This new play before us erupts out of Shakespeare’s tumultuous, violent love story and brings forth a world with the logic and physics of the dream. A dream where the familiar blows into the absurd and the nightmare, for all too understood reasons, is reality.

ARCH: A Dance Concert showcased original works by contemporary dance students at �IJʿ���.

The tale of several socially awkward young people finding joy, heartache and a purpose in competing at the regional spelling bee.