UIS Theatre Past Productions

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Clybourne Park

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by Bruce Norris Directed by Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson November 8-10 and 14-16, 2013Photo Gallery Play Description 3 W, 4 M Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2012 Tony Award, Bruce Norris’ CLYBOURNE PARK is a play which takes on the provocative issues of race, political correctness, and the changing social landscape in America, while still managing to make us laugh along the way. Act One takes place in 1959, in Chicago’s Clybourne Park neighborhood, as the community…

Awake and Sing

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by Clifford Odets Directed by EricThibodeaux-Thompson April 5-7 & 11-13, 2013Photo Gallery Play Description 7 M, 2 W Roles (Possible Flexibility Here) Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson will direct Clifford Odets’ 1933 play, AWAKE AND SING. AWAKE AND SING synopsis

Tartuffe

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by Moliere Directed by Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson October 26, 27, 28, and November 1, 2, 3, 20127:30PM, Sunday at 2PMThe Studio Theatre, Public Affairs Center (PAC) Level 1, UIS CampusPhoto Gallery Play Description 6 M, 5 W Roles (Possible Flexibility Here) Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson will direct a contemporary translation (by Ranjit Bolt) of Moliere’s 17th century French comedy, TARTUFFE. TARTUFFE synopsis

True West

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by Sam Shepard Directed by Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson February 24-26, and March 1-3, 20127:30PM, Sunday at 2PMThe Studio Theatre, Public Affairs Center (PAC) Level 1, UIS CampusPhoto Gallery Play Description Comedy Full Length Play 3 men, 1 woman, 4 total INTERIOR TRUE WEST explores the challenging and volatile relationship between brothers Austin and Lee. Austin is an aspiring screenwriter, Lee an unsavory drifter. Austin’s attempt at creating his own screenplay to…

I Hate Hamlet

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by Paul Rudnick Directed by Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson October 28-30, and November 3-5, 20117:30PM, Sunday at 2PMThe Studio Theatre, Public Affairs Center (PAC) Level 1, UIS CampusPhoto Gallery Play Description Comedy Full Length Play 3 men, 3 women: 6 total INTERIOR A young and successful television actor relocates to New York, where he rents a marvelous, gothic apartment. With his television career in limbo, the actor is offered the opportunity to play Hamlet onstage,…

Spinning into Butter

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by Rebecca Gilman Directed by Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson April 8-10, and April 14-16, 2011 7:30PM, Sunday at 2PM The Studio Theatre, Public Affairs Center (PAC) Level 1, UIS Campus Photo Gallery Play Description Cast: 5 men, 2 women “Set on a college campus in Vermont, SPINNING INTO BUTTER is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a manner that is at once profound, disturbing,…