Please note: For the 2023 fall season, all productions usually produced in the Cave Theatre, AC 007, will be performed in Recital Hall, AR 217, across the hall from the David Owsley Museum of Art. Please use the Riverside Avenue entrance; an elevator is available to access the second floor.
The Fall Short Play Series will include 4 one-acts running in rotational rep. See below for specific dates and times each one-act will be performed.
Bolero
By David Ives
Directed by Tristen Durham
Fine Arts Building AR217
- September 23-25, 27-28, 30 at 7:30 pm
A woman’s world threatens to come apart in the middle of the night, when she and her husband hear strange sounds and voices coming through their bedroom wall.
Sure Thing/Captive Audience
By David Ives
Directed by Matt Robey
Fine Arts Building AR217
- September 23, 25-26, 28-29 at 7:30 pm
- September 24 at 2:30 pm
Sure Thing: A chance meeting of two people, Betty and Bill, whose conversation is continually reset by the use of a ringing bell, starting over when one of them responds negatively to the other.
Captive Audience: A cautionary fable tells how Rob and Laura face a menace in their living room: a television that talks back to them and threatens to swallow them whole.
A Need for Brussel Sprouts
By Murray Schisgal
Directed by Isabella Schott
Fine Arts Building AR217
- September 24, 26-27, 29-30 at 7:30 pm
- September 24 at 2:30 pm
Description to come.
"Twice Around the Park" is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
www.concordtheatricals.com
The Redeemer
By Cybele May
Directed by Alaina Moore
Fine Arts Building AR217
- November 7, 9-11 at 7:30 pm
- November 11-12 at 2:30 pm
In his increasingly desperate search for a kidnapped boy, Detective Stewart Grant finds himself relying more and more on the visions of a psychic named Connie Aisling. Connie knows that time is running out for the boy, but hopes she can help avert the fate awaiting him. As the identity of the kidnapper comes into grim focus, both the psychic and the detective confront the purpose of fate and the horrors of the past.
Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com)
The Little Prince
By Antione de Saint-Exupéry
Directed by Lily Weidenbach
Fine Arts Building AR217
- December 6-9 at 7:30 pm
- December 9-10 at 2:30 pm
A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. The pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out pencil and paper... And thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed forever the world for its readers.
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois
The Pink Bedroom/Every Twenty Minutes (A Satire)
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Maximo Powell
Cave Theatre
- February 17-19, 21-22, 24 at 7:30 pm
The Pink Bedroom: The Woman berates her tedious, negligent lover whom she knows has two-timed her. As the quarrel reaches a crescendo, she turns him out and slams the door on him. Then she calls to his replacement, a younger man, who's waiting in the other room.
Every Twenty Minutes: An unnamed couple, Man and Woman, are relaxing in their chic city apartment after a late party, when the Woman comes across a startling statistic. . .
“The Pink Bedroom” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
THE PINK BEDROOM is presented by special arrangement with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
“Every Twenty Minutes (A Satire)” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
EVERY TWENTY MINUTES (A SATIRE) is presented by special arrangement with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
Abortive
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Myles Keys
Cave Theatre
- February 17, 19-20, 22-23 at 7:30 pm
- February 18 at 2:30 pm
TW: sexual assault, abortion
Roz and Colin are having a difficult time with sex, largely because of an invisible yet forbidding barrier between them. Roz became pregnant after being raped and had an abortion. Roz is not sure she made the right decision and Colin is not altogether convinced his wife was raped. . .
“Abortive” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Cowboy Mouth
By Sam Shepard and Patti Smith
Directed by Will Torres
Cave Theatre
- February 18, 20-21, 23-24 at 7:30 pm
- February 18 at 2:30 pm
Slim and Cavale, two rock n’ rollers holed up in a disheveled apartment await a special delivery in the form of their iconic, visionary savior “the Lobster Man”.
“Cowboy Mouth” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Don't Unlock the Door
By Craig Sodaro
Directed by Erin Takehashi
Cave Theatre
- March 20-23 at 7:30 pm
- March 23-24 at 2:30 pm
Upon receiving numerous death threats while in the running for governor, State Senator Tyson Avery and his wife escape to a mountain cabin owned by the family of the Senator's top aide, Clayton Carlson. Tension builds as the stalker reveals they know where the Senator is hiding and as more and more disturbing events take place, the terror really begins.