The Department of Theatre and Dance’s Catalyst: A Theatre Think
Tank (C3T) is hosting a free weekend long musical theatre
workshop Feb. 18 and 19. Workshop is open to all UC Davis
students.
Excerpts from the workshop will be presented along with the
reading of the one-act play Aliyah and the Princess
Jasmine Barbie Doll by Aidaa Peerzada on Feb. 19.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will be holding auditions for
Alone/Together, a series of devised short text-based
solo performances about the movement from isolation to
being-with-others (and back again) during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Auditions will be held Feb. 28 6-9 p.m. in Arena Theatre,
Wright Hall. Participants must sign up for an audition time
slot.
Graduate student Barnaby O’Rorke has generated When It
Works, where are you? Invitations and shared
practices, a Zoom Ecamm performance in which each
iteration features improvisation with live and recorded material.
The UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance presents the work on
April 19, 21 and 23 at 5 p.m. PST.
Graduate student Danielle Levin has written and created Whole
Cloth, an M.F.A. project, in which a woman confronts her
family legacy and heritage. The UC Davis Department of
Theatre and Dance presents the play April 15-17.
Graduate student Verónica Díaz-Muñiz has gathered testimonies by
women who have been victims of state violence in Chile and the
U.S. to create her M.F.A. project, OJOXOJO. The UC Davis
Department of Theatre and Dance presents the play April
10-12.
Romeo and Juliet is reinvented as a musical comedy when
the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance, Southern Utah
University’s (SUU) Department of Theatre, Dance and Arts
Administration and Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank premiere
Juliet and Romeo. Co-written by Paul Gordon, a Tony
Award nominee for Jane Eyre, and Curtis Moore, an Emmy
Award nominee for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the
production will be accessible virtually June 3 at 6 p.m. PDT
through midnight on June 5.
