A division of the University of Connecticut's School
of Fine Arts, the department offers comprehensive and challenging
academic programs and training experiences which prepare students
for professional careers in the theatre and related entertainment
fields including television, film, and video.
Announcements
February 23-March 4, 2012
By Stephen Svoboda
Regional Premiere
Nafe Katter Theatre
Experience the Odyssey re-imagined: a magical place where the blind see, the sick love and drag queens become goddesses. As the final stages of his disease bend his vivid imagination, Elliot becomes the legendary hero Odysseus determined to bring his crew-his fellow patients on the AIDS ward-home despite all the obstacles the gods throw in his way. This wise, heartfelt drama charts one man's heroic quest for Kleos - Glory, to live a life worthy of being remembered. Playwright Stephen Svoboda will direct his work in its regional premiere. Critic Martin Denton calls this a "majestic play… poetic, surreal and wonderfully humorous."
The Department of Dramatic Arts and its theatre
production arm, the Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT), combine
to create an exciting center for excellence in the dramatic
arts. Each year young theatre artists from across the United
States choose to pursue education, training, and production
experience through undergraduate and graduate study in the
Department of Dramatic Arts and CRT. The goal of the department
is twofold. First, it aims to provide the finest possible
professional training through classroom and studio instruction.
Second, it aims to supplement and enrich that classroom and
studio training by providing maximal opportunities for students
to obtain professional level production experience through
active participation in plays produced by the Connecticut
Repertory Theatre.
Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) is the production organization of the Department
of Dramatic Arts. Through CRT, the Department produces a subscription
series of plays and musicals during the academic year, as
well as a separate series of plays during the summer. In mounting
and producing plays, CRT operates in a manner that is essentially
identical to a typical regional repertory theatre and it does
so with similar artistic aspirations. In fact, CRT seeks to
maintain active, working associations with regional repertory
theatres whereby co-sponsored productions may originate at
CRT and tour to the co-producing professional theatres. The
CRT's contract with the Actor's Equity Association
permits our acting majors, both graduate and undergraduate,
to participate in the Equity Candidacy Program through which
many of them are eligible for union membership upon their
graduation.
SCHOOL
OF FINE ARTS
DEPARTMENT OF DRAMATIC ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
802 BOLTON RD., UNIT 1127
STORRS, CT 06269-1127
(860) 486-4025 OFFICE
(860) 486-3110 FAX
