Video Podcast: Ubu Roi Design Storm

As the first show of the Fall semester, Ubu Roi’s entire design was the result of a storm.  Borrowing the idea from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Ubu’s “Design Storm” featured an intense and condensed four-day creative process that resulted in all the sets, costumes and music that audiences will see on stage.

“We worked on the show for ten days then did a run-through of it with the designer,” show director Betsy Tucker said.  “The next night we got together for four hours to talk about the show.  Then over the next two days we built the whole thing – a process that usually takes six weeks.  The ‘storm’ was an experiment to see if it could be done and to determine whether it isa workable model for future productions.  It went very well, and we had a good time.    They rose to the wackiness of the production.”

View the Video Podcast of the design storm weekend here.

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Drama 07-08 Season

The 2007-2008 Department of Drama Season features six shows ranging from the serious to the silly and covering timeless classics, exciting new material and nearly everything in between.

The season will include:

• Two of the theater world’s most famed works, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler
• Alfred Jarry’s supremely satirical “power play” Ubu Roi
• The David Mamet adaptation of Harley Granville Barker’s The Voysey Inheritance
• Jason Robert Brown’s musical journey Songs for a New World
• Associate professor Doug Grissom’s tale of a fractured family tree, So Careless

This year, full season subscriptions will be re-introduced, covering the shows in both the Culbreth and the Helms Theatres.  As in recent years, subscriptions covering only the Culbreth Theatre shows are also available.  New this year, a special 15% discount for University of Virginia faculty and staff is available and may be applied to season tickets as well as individual productions.

For more information on our 07-08 Season, click here.

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