TU Theatre Arts Concert Readings
Two contemporary plays will be presented as rehearsed readings in the Mainstage Theatre. Both plays explore the interplay of humor and satire in confronting crisis, giving us insights into our humanity. The plays are presented in conversation with the COFAC Theme “Lighten Up: Humor & Satire”
The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe; Directed by Teresa Spencer
December 8 & 10, 7:30 p.m.
A girls indoor soccer team meets on the pitch Saturday mornings for pre-game warmups. As they stretch and drill, they wrestle with conflicts large and small, from the fallout of the Khmer Rouge to which of them will start centerfield to menstruation, sex, and love. A finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe is a coming of age story that tackles the pressures of growing up in Gen Z and celebrates the resiliency, wisdom, and humor of girls on the cusp of adulthood.
Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda in an adaptation of the novel for the stage by Lara Foot Newton. Directed by Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe in collaboration with Black Theatre Troupe.
December 9 & 11, 7:30 p.m.
Toloki is a “professional mourner” in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day, he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit, cape, and battered top hat, to comfort the grieving families of the victims of the city’s crime, racial hatred, and crippling poverty. At a Christmas Day funeral for a young boy, Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. “Together they help each other to heal the past, and as their story interweaves with those of their acquaintances, providing a brutal, magical, funny, and painful picture of South Africa during its transition from Apartheid”.
Both readings may contain material recommended for mature audiences.
Proceeds benefit the TU Foundation.
Performances are approximately 90 minutes and presented without intermission.
The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe; Directed by Teresa Spencer
December 8 & 10, 7:30 p.m.
A girls indoor soccer team meets on the pitch Saturday mornings for pre-game warmups. As they stretch and drill, they wrestle with conflicts large and small, from the fallout of the Khmer Rouge to which of them will start centerfield to menstruation, sex, and love. A finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe is a coming of age story that tackles the pressures of growing up in Gen Z and celebrates the resiliency, wisdom, and humor of girls on the cusp of adulthood.
Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda in an adaptation of the novel for the stage by Lara Foot Newton. Directed by Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe in collaboration with Black Theatre Troupe.
December 9 & 11, 7:30 p.m.
Toloki is a “professional mourner” in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day, he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit, cape, and battered top hat, to comfort the grieving families of the victims of the city’s crime, racial hatred, and crippling poverty. At a Christmas Day funeral for a young boy, Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. “Together they help each other to heal the past, and as their story interweaves with those of their acquaintances, providing a brutal, magical, funny, and painful picture of South Africa during its transition from Apartheid”.
Both readings may contain material recommended for mature audiences.
Proceeds benefit the TU Foundation.
Performances are approximately 90 minutes and presented without intermission.
