Eleanor Roosevelt High School presents
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
Adapted by Steven L. Barker
Directed by the students, supervised by Julie Ann Hawk
Performances now online: Click here.
Location: Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt.
The Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, Arts and Cultural Heritage Division Presents the Prince George’s Summer Shakespeare Festival.
Shakespeare In the Parks 2020
A Christmas Carol: Radio Drama
based on the book by Charles Dickens
Shakespeare in the Parks Presents: A Christmas Carol: Radio Drama
Step back in time to Victorian London for a magical tale of ghosts, a change of heart, and the true meaning of the holidays in Charles Dicken’s – A Christmas Carol. This timeless classic has been adapted by Christopher Dwyer into an audio drama. Listen in and be charmed by a much-loved holiday story vividly brought to life. Our FREE, family-friendly presentation, filled with music, captures the joy and delight of the season. Narrated by Lilian Oben, this performance includes appearances by award-winning actors Edward Gero as Jacob Marley and Matt McGee as Scrooge. Join us on a thoughtful journey, with well-known characters, in what is sure to be a comforting and safe holiday tradition.
Appropriate for middle school ages and above.
Click here to listen to “A Christmas Carol: Radio Drama” on Spreaker.
Fall Thesis Concert –
Ghost Bride & Responsive Wild
Rose Xinran Qi, choreographer
Krissy Harris, choreographer
Thursday, November 19, 2020 . 7:30PM
Friday, November 20, 2020 . 7:30PM
By: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Click here.
Responsive Wild
Choreography by Krissy Harris
Responsive Wild considers and questions notions of womanhood and femininity. Inspired by family history, rock and roll, and physics concepts, Harris investigates these ideas through highly physical, bold and expansive movement. The work is in conversation with feminist theories and reveals a complex interrelationship of the inside/outside body and its potential for energetic expression.
Ghost Bride
Choreography by Rose Xinran Qi
Ghost Bride is based on the Asian tradition of a ghost marriage, when a man dies early in life and his family recruits a young woman to marry him in spirit. Through a combination of movements derived from postmodern dance and classical Chinese dance, this work conveys a story of revolution for women’s rights through time and place. Qi evokes the Chinese feminine form Shenyun (bearing) through breath control in order to communicate the internal emotion behind specific movements.
Free, Tickets Required, Online here.
The Rude Mechanicals in residence at the Greenbelt Arts Center present:
The Revenger’s Tragedy
by Anonymous circa 1605
directed by Jaki Demarest
Performances Friday and Saturday, October 30 & 31
By Greenbelt Arts Center, Online.
The Revenger’s Tragedy is a darkly comic masterpiece by an unknown writer. Just in time for Halloween, we have a Jacobean revenge tragedy with vivid and muscular prose, Hamlet without the indecision. A little touch of Tarantino in the night, with intrigue, murder, mayhem, infidelity, a poisoned skull, a mistaken execution, a battle royale with the improbable weapon of a severed head, and a twist ending that manages to subvert all the tropes and expectations.
Notice: this play contains adult themes and references to sexual violence.
Online performance, click here.
All performances are free. We are asking a suggested donation of $10 to help support our continuing efforts to provide theater to Greenbelt and the larger community; please click on Donate and select “Support Online Shows.”
The Quadroon and the Dove
by Charlene A. Donaghy
directed by Rikki Howie Lacewell
2 Live Online Performances
Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 6pm
Sunday, October 25, 2020 at 6pm
The live performances will be offered free, but will not be recorded for future viewing, so don’t miss it!
By Greenbelt Arts Center, Online.
Greenbelt Arts Center presents a workshop reading of The Quadroon and the Dove, a new work by Charlene A. Donaghy. This play is in preparation for its Off-Broadway debut.
In 1840s New Orleans, Clarice, a free woman of color mistress to Lucien, a wealthy French Creole, obsesses and schemes to have Lucien bound to her alone, in a life away from repressive laws and intruding paramours. As the Quadroon Ball approaches, she sees her life spinning out of control as Lucien’s desires for new love and family intertwine with a growing slave uprising.
To register to attend a performance, please fill out the form at this link and the Zoom information will be emailed to you. We are asking a suggested donation of $10 to help support our continuing efforts to provide theater to Greenbelt and the larger community; please click on Donate and select “Support Online Shows.”
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