Just for the Campus Community!
Directed by Aldo Billingslea
Each quarter we will present a free staged reading in the Fess Parker Studio Theatre of plays under consideration for a future season. These showcases are designed to expand our curriculum, engage more voices, and give more people (actors and audiences alike) an opportunity to participate in the offerings of our season.
In a 21st century version of the Scarlet Letter, in a society where the odds are stacked against a poor single mother, how can Hester get ahead with her five kids?
Co-directed by Mitchell Ost
Queen Elizabeth has been kicking MacBeth’s butt on the battlefield so he enlists the witches to create for him a zombie army. Into this fray comes a young minstrel playwright named Shakespeare. Hijinks ensue.
“The story of Don Quixote comes alive with a modern twist! In the fictional town of La Plancha, Texas, a brilliant professor battling dementia imagines himself as Cervantes’ titular hero. Enlisting his own Sancho, he embarks on a journey for his long-lost love — confronting border patrol drones rather than windmills” (Portland Center Stage).