Ole Miss Theatre Announces 2013-2014 Season
Ole Miss Theatre is proud to announce our 2013-2014 season, "Beyond Boundaries."
Our season kicks off with The Laramie Projecti n Meek Auditorium.
"A month after the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, the members of Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie and conducted interviews with the people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project, which has become one of the most performed plays in America in the last decade. The company later made the play into a film for HBO. The play and the movie combined have been seen by more than 50 million people around the world."
Our second production, Hairspray, is a musical based on the 1988 film by John Waters. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the show follows the story of plump teenager Tracy Turnblad's dream to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show. Through Tracy and her friendship with the African-American student population at her high school the musical explores issues of self-image and racism in the 1960s. Hairspray will be performed in the Ford Center for the Performnig Arts.
In February we open Marisol in Meek Auditorium. Written by Jose Rivera, this show is set in a post-apocalyptic future where a war in heaven spills over into New York City, reducing it to a smoldering urban wasteland where giant fires send noxious smoke to darken the skies, where the moon has not been seen in months, where the food has been turned to salt, and water no longer seeks its level. Alone, without her guardian angel, Marisol begins a nightmare journey into this new war zone.
We close our season with Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author in Fulton Chapel. An absurdist metatheatrical play about the relationship between authors, their characters and theatre practitioners, this show explores the lines between reality and fiction, time and timelessness. In a world where these lines are blurred, how does one find meaning in anything?
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