By Neil LaBute
DATES June 23-July 17, 2011, calendar
TIMES Wed-Sat at 7:30 p.m., Sun at 3 p.m.
TICKET info
Special Two & Three Show Ticket Package
See all three plays (any performance) for $60 or two plays for $40! Order here.
The first of LaBute’s “Beauty Plays,” The Shape of Things is an exploration of art and intimacy, and people’s willingness to do things for love. It is set in a small, Midwestern university town, and centers on the lives of four young students who become emotionally and romantically entangled as they try to cram academics, jobs, love and meaning into hectic lives.
Specific Show Dates
View in calendar form here.
Thursday, June 23 – Reasons To Be Pretty 7:30
Friday, June 24 – Reasons To Be Pretty 7:30
Saturday, June 25 – Reasons To Be Pretty 7:30
Sunday, June 26 – Reasons To Be Pretty 3:00
one week off to celebrate Independence Day
Wednesday, July 6 – The Shape of Things 7:30 (opening)
Thursday, July 7 – Reasons To Be Pretty 7:30
Friday, July 8 – Fat Pig 7:30 (opening)
Saturday, July 9 – Reasons To Be Pretty 4:00 (note: special time)
Saturday, July 9 – The Shape of Things 7:30
Sunday, July 10 – Fat Pig 3:00
Wednesday, July 13 – Fat Pig 7:30
Thursday, July 14 – The Shape of Things 7:30
Friday, July 15 – Fat Pig 7:30
Saturday, July 16 – The Shape of Things 4:00 (note: special time)
Saturday, July 16 – Fat Pig 7:30
Sunday, July 17 – The Shape of Things 3:00
CAST
Evelyn: Marnie Strate
Adam: Michael Heath
Jenny: Jessica Elwell
Phillip: Jeff White
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Jennifer Nostrala
Stage Manager: Sadie Ackerman
Scenic Designer: Jay Jagim
Lighting Designer: Jim Trenberth
Costume Designer: Emily Ganfield
Hair/Wig/Make-up Designer: Cindy Hummel
Sound Designer: Josh Jepson
Dramaturge: Nancy Evans
About the Beauty Play Series
A unique, must-see theatre event that is guaranteed to start a conversation. Three plays – The Shape of Things, Fat Pig and Reasons to be Pretty – in repertory by one of the most important new voices in American theatre. The New Yorker calls Neil LaBute “the best new playwright to emerge in the past decade … a genius.”
Together, they deal with the complexities of romantic relationships, sexual politics and physical appearance. Comprising a trilogy of plays linked by theme, though without recurring characters or a connected plot, the plays each reflect on their common themes in unique and distinctive ways. Though each play has had immensely successful productions in New York and London, the three plays have never been performed in a three-week repertory format.
