Unstageably Fresh Gynt

Unstageably Fresh Gynt
December 5-8, 2024
Sklarsky Glass Box Theater, SHED

Freshwater
By Virginia Woolf
Directed by Dr. Kelley Holley

Freshwater is the only play Virginia Woolf ever wrote, and it is unlike anything you’d expect from her. It’s a farce, a romp through the Victorian past. It’s an inside joke she wrote for and performed with her friends. The play takes aim at the cultural elite of the 19th century, including Woolf’s own great aunt the renowned photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, as well as celebrated actor Ellen Terry, and famed poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The Bloomsbury group, Woolf’s artistic circle, has their fun through a send-up of an artistic group very much like theirs, two generations earlier. Both groups were filled with painters, actors, poets, and writers, looking to innovate and prove themselves as artists. Rarely produced, and often imagined as unstageable, Freshwater is a rollicking good time.

CONTENT ADVISORY: This play contains plot elements that revolve around death, objectification, infidelity, age gaps in relationships, discussions of nudity. 

Peer Gynt
By Henrik Ibsen
New Adaptation by Ryan Underbakke and Matt Spring
Directed by Ryan Underbakke

An innovative and dynamic production of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt. This highly physical show tells the epic tale of Peer Gynt, a brash and dreamy youth whose adventures span the globe and the realms of fantasy. With a newly adapted script rich in poetic language and vibrant imagery, Peer Gynt explores themes of identity, ambition, and the human spirit.

CONTENT ADVISORY: This play contains content of mature subject matter including violence, sexuality, bullying, death, and mental illness.