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Fall 2025: Marta Becket, Save us All!

Directed by Associate Professor of Theater Katie Pearl

A new performance inspired by the life of Marta Becket—a Broadway dancer who left New York at the height of her career, moved into an empty Opera House in an abandoned desert town, painted an entire audience on its walls, and performed there for the next 40 years whether anyone was there to see her or not. This show will be created in rehearsal, taking inspiration from Marta’s life, Vaudeville performance, artistic obsession, using “getting lost” as a strategy for finding oneself, and dust devils.

“Is it eccentric to love your work so much that you would go anywhere in the world to do it?”
– Marta Becket

 

Performances:
HEx Theater at the Fries Arts Building (56 Hamlin Street)

Thursday, November 13
Friday, November 14
Saturday, November 15

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 Spring 2026: The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater Alex Keegan

Selected by the team from THEA180: Reading Plays for Production—Conceiving for Performance.

A timely parable that exposes the devastating consequences of mass hysteria and the erosion of justice. Amidst the infamous Salem witch trials, accusations fly, moral lines blur, and a tight-knit community finds itself on edge. Arthur Miller’s investigation of groupthink, betrayal, and morality offers a searing critique of McCarthyism, serving as a stark and urgent warning for our times.

Senior Capstones

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Mothership

What happens when you feel stuck in a town that doesn’t seem to understand you? When you and your friends are outcasts, trapped in a place that feels suffocating, but you’re not sure where to go next? When you’re young and full of dreams but have no idea how to make them real? Set in the 2010’s suburbs of New Jersey, Mothership is a one-act play that explores that feeling of being caught in a vortex of indecision, wanting to leave, and not knowing where to go. It’s about the confusion of emerging as an adult, searching for connection, and weighing the risks of stepping into the unknown. Mothership tells the story of two young people struggling to find their place in a world that feels too small and too limited while getting ready to get out and trying to figure out where. In this play, the audience is invited to explore the space between what is and what could be. It’s a story of self-discovery and the power of possibility.

The Senior Thesis Theater Production features a new work written and performed by Dani Brugger ’26 and Paige Merril ’26 as a senior project, and directed by Eliza Bryson ’26 in partial fulfillment for Honors in Theater.

Direction Advisor: Associate Professor of Theater Katie Pearl
Playwriting Advisor: Associate Professor of Theater Edwin Sanchez
Acting Advisors: Assistant Professor of Theater Maria-Christina Oliveras and Assistant Professor of Theater Lauren Yeoman

Performances: 
Patricelli '92 Theater (213 High Street)

Wednesday, December 10, 8:00pm
Thursday, December 11, 8:00pm 
Friday, December 12, 8:00pm

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