This biannual festival features ten-minute plays written in 48 hours based on a prompt devised by Playwright-in-Residence Charlotte Meehan. The festival is a collaboration between the Creative Writing Program and the Department of Theatre and Dance Studies.

Written by William Shakespeare, directed by David Fox. Comedy. Drama. Romance. Disguise. Deception. Intrigue. Love scorned. Love rewarded. And bumbling cops who become heroes! Please join us for a spirited production of one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays.Tickets: $10 general, $5 with a Wheaton ID & seniors. To purchase tickets contact the Watson Box Office at [email protected] or 508-286-3575.

trailer by Gracie Vicente ’22

Written by William Shakespeare, directed by David Fox. Comedy. Drama. Romance. Disguise. Deception. Intrigue. Love scorned. Love rewarded. And bumbling cops who become heroes! Please join us for a spirited production of one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays. Tickets: $10 general, $5 with a Wheaton ID & seniors. To purchase tickets contact the Watson Box Office at [email protected] or 508-286-3575.

trailer by Gracie Vicente ’22

The Lyon’s Den, Balfour-Hood

Thursday, March 29

7:30 pm

This biannual festival features ten-minute plays written in 48 hours based on a prompt devised by Playwright-in-Residence Charlotte Meehan. The festival is a collaboration between the Creative Writing Program and the Department of Theatre and Dance Studies.

“Plays as funny and moving, as wonderful and weird as The Realistic Joneses do not appear often on Broadway. Or ever, really … Mr. Eno’s voice may be the most singular of his generation,” wrote Charles Isherwood in his 2014 New York Times review of Eno’s opening at the Lyceum Theatre.  Please join us as we celebrate the talents of our department’s graduating actors in this challenging and innovative piece of theatre. Free tickets can be reserved through the Watson Box Office. Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts, 7:30 p.m

Box Office
Contact the Watson Box Office at 508-286-3575 or by email at [email protected].

In his latest solo work, ‘El border brujo’ internationally acclaimed MacArthur fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña draws from his 30-year-old living archive and combines new and classic performance material to present a unique perspective on the immediate future of the Americas. His self-styled “imaginary activism” invokes performance art as a form of radical democracy and citizenship. This spoken word performance includes multiple cameos by collaborator, Balitronica Gomez. Free tickets can be reserved through the Watson Box Office.

Missy Hairston, who at different points in her life, could be described as a woman of majestic proportions, plays 30 characters in this solo comedy in which we follow her progress as she grows up in the South, migrates to New York where she finds remarkable success on the comedy club circuit, then pursues a career in Hollywood. Awkwardly Fabulous will resonate especially with women who have had to confront body issues and issues of esteem regarding their love and work lives (which is to say, lots of women). Plenty of men will identify with it too. Free tickets can be reserved through the Watson Box Office (508-286-3575 or [email protected]).

***The festival has been postponed due to the storm and on-going power outages. We will post updates when a new date has be determined***

This biannual festival features ten-minute plays written in 48 hours based on a prompt devised by Playwright-in-Residence Charlotte Meehan. The festival is a collaboration between the Creative Writing Program and the Department of Theatre and Dance Studies.

written by Tennessee Williams, directed by David Fox

In this semi-autobiographical “memory play”, a young writer wrestles with the repercussions of abandoning his mother and sister. Haunting, heartbreaking, and infused with transcendent lyricism, it remains one of American theatre’s most enduring works of art. Tickets: $10 general, $5 with a Wheaton ID & seniors.

Trailer by Michael Kristy ’18