Category Archives: Drama

Dovie Thomason: Lessons from the Animal People at the Publick Playhouse, Nov 14

Dovie Thomason: Lessons from the Animal People at the Publick Playhouse, Nov 14

Midweek Matinee
Dovie Thomason: Lessons from the Animal People

Tuesday, November 14, 10:15 am & 12 noon

Location: Prince George’s Publick Playhouse

The rich heritage of the First Nations comes alive when Dovie Thomason shares an intertribal sampling of animal stories from her Plains Apache and Lakota ancestors. The imaginative tales often answer questions children have about animals (“why do bears hibernate?”) in stories that teach proper values and behavior, and capture tots’ attention.

Recommended for grades K-5

Tickets: $8/person; $6/person in groups of 20 or more

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at St. Vincent Pallotti High School, Nov 10-12

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at St. Vincent Pallotti High School, Nov 10-12

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by Joseph Robinette
Directed by: Christopher Dwyer

November 10 – 12, 2017
November 10 at 7:30pm
November 11 at 2:30 pm & 7:30 pm
November 12 at 2:30 pm

Location: St. Vincent Pallotti High School in Laurel.

Description: Journey with Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter as they escape from war-torn London and venture through the Wardrobe and into Narnia in C.S. Lewis’ classic story: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Lucy is the first to venture into this fantastical land, meeting the Faun Tumnus, who turns out to be a spy for the White Witch. After Tumnus has a change of heart and lets Lucy go, Edmund follows soon after, only to fall into the hands of the witch, betraying his brother and sisters. Susan and Peter find their bravery as they seek out Aslan, a lion, who has come to deliver them from the White Witch and a land that is always winter. Join us as St. Vincent Pallotti’s Arts Academy performs this classic tale November 10-12.

Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 Senior Citizens, $8 for students

For more information contact:
Chris Dwyer
cdwyer@pallottihs.org

The Ravens at Venus Theatre, Nov 2-26

The Ravens at Venus Theatre, Nov 2-26

THE RAVENS
By Alana Valentine
Directed by Deborah Randall

November 2 – 26, 2017
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm.

Location: Venus Theatre.

PARENTAL ADVISORY: Adult themes.

The Ravens is about Kira, a trying-to- be-ex sex worker in Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia. When she receives a large victim’s compensation payout, deciding what to do with the money becomes more of a problem than a relief. A friend from her former life feels that she is ‘owed’ by Kira, and moves back into her life and her flat. Then a chance meeting with Nina, a young social work student working at the local chocolate shop, seems like it might give Kira the courage and support she needs to finally get the violent Marg out of her life. An encounter with one of Nina’s old age clients at a nursing home focuses Kira’s determination but now she wants to help her friend Nancy, who is still working at a brothel but living in a dominating lesbian relationship. Finally Nina suggests that she might use the money for her and Nancy to put on a play – a version of Shakespeare’s poem The Phoenix and the Turtle. It’s a routine Kira and Nancy used to do as a striptease for an old client – can they learn to change themselves, phoenix like, into something other than they have been for so long? Can love – of life, of self, of friends – be resurrected and transformed by art? As an evocative radio play, The Ravens won the 2015 BBC International Radio Writing Award from the BBC World Service. Venus Theatre is delighted to be presenting the world premiere of the stage play – a visceral, provocative work of fierce insight and compassion for womens’ struggle out of violence.

Tickets are $40 or $20 for Friend of Venus. Buy tickets here.

Belarus Free Theatre presents Burning Doors at Clarice Smith, Oct 26-27

Belarus Free Theatre presents Burning Doors at Clarice Smith, Oct 26-27

Belarus Free Theatre
BURNING DOORS
October 26-27, 2017. 8PM
with Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina

Thu, Oct 26, 2017 . 8:00PM
Fri, Oct 27, 2017 . 8:00PM

PARENTAL ADVISORY: This performance contains nudity, adult language and scenes of a violent nature. Recommended for mature audiences.

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Kay Theatre

What happens when you’re declared an enemy of the state simply for making art? Where do you belong when your government suppresses your basic right to expression? And how do you survive in one of the most brutal prison systems in the world?


Featuring Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina in her stage debut, this blazing new contemporary theatre piece from the refugee-led Belarus Free Theater (BFT) draws on the company’s own experience of political oppression and continues their campaign to stand up for artistic freedom and human rights across the globe. BFT is the only theatre in Europe banned by its government on political grounds. It shares stories of persecuted artists, living under dictatorship, who will not be silenced.

Performed in Russian and Belarusian with English surtitles.

Tickets: General Admission: Regular $25+, Student/Youth: $10

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Rachel: The Play at Bowie State University, Oct 26

Rachel: The Play at Bowie State University, Oct 26

Rachel: The Play
By Angelina Weld Grimke
Directed by Michelle Washington

October 26, 2017 7:30pm

Fine and Performing Arts Center, Black Box Theatre, Bowie State University.

This play from 1917 transcends contemporary socio-political issues through the lead female character. Rachel is a young black woman living with her mother and brother. Upon hearing of the gruesome deaths of both her father and her brother, she decides to never have children of her own and to never marry. While popular and award winning when first written, adding to Grimke’s dramatic experience here in addition to her poetry and novels, Rachel has been produced only twice since its creation.

This performance reading is directed by Adjunct Professor Michelle Washington and supported by BSU’s Alpha Psi Omega Theatre Honor Society.

Free

Contact:
Michelle Washington
mwashington@bowiestate.edu
202-403-9736