Drama Mainstage Season 2019-2020
A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard
Oct. 8 - 12, 2019 7:00 pm
University Theatre
Directed by: Doug MacArthur
A Lie of the Mind alternates between two families after a severe incident of spousal abuse leaves all their lives forever altered. The play leads to a final collision at an isolated cabin in rural Montana, where the tensions that separate the families grow increasingly disturbing and dangerous. A dark comedy that does not skimp on its emotional depth.
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
Nov. 5 - 9, 2019 7:30 pm
University Theatre
Directed by: Jay Whitehead
Titus Andronicus is set during the latter days of the Roman Empire and tells the fictional story of Titus, a general in the Roman army, who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with Tamora, Queen of the Goths. It is Shakespeare's bloodiest and most violent work and contains mature content.
In Tongues by James Odin Wade
Mar. 17 - 21, 2020 7:30PM
University Theatre
Directed by: Ron Chambers
When true crime author Cara dies alone in her British Columbia cabin while researching an infamous killer, her husband and sister are left searching for answers. What they find in her research exposes new sides of Cara, her investigation and themselves.
Girl Talk
October 24 - 26, 2019 | 7:00 pm
AND October 26, 2019 | 2:00 pm
W425 (David Spinks Theatre)
Also being performed at the YWCA's Power of Being a Girl Conference on Ocotber 16, 2019
Directed by: Hannah Stobbe
Girl Talk is a completely devised show celebrating the female experience in 2019, and exploring the strength manifested when young woment support each other.
Sugar Mama
March 5 - 7, 2020 | 7:00 pm
W425 (David Spinks Theatre)
Directed by: Jesse Thibert
Sugar Mama is a comedy of manners. A cynical modern outlook towards sex and money: how it influences our everyday decisions and ruins the community if it controls the individuals. Jamie and Laura live a simple life. Laura works hard to pay for everything that she and Jamie need to survive. Jamie is an Instagram influencer who does not pay or own anything. A new married couple moves across that hall from their studio apartment and Laura sees this as an opportunity to make friends and learn how to meet an honest man.