2011-2012 Season
The ageless battle between justice and injustice will be in the spotlight all year long, as the U.Va. Drama Department presents a dynamic new season that spans centuries and genres, and touches on issues ranging from the danger of prejudice to the power of love.

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Vinegar Tom
Written by Caryl Churchill
Directed by John Vreeke
Helms Theatre
February 16-18 and 21-25 at 8pm
Celebrated British playwright Caryl Churchill uses the backdrop of the 17th Century witch trials to highlight the ongoing struggles for acceptance and equality faced by women, even in our world today.  Originally penned amid the women’s rights movement of the 1970’s Churchill’s story and themes force all of us to ask tough questions about our own roles in the discrimination we encounter all around us or even participate in. 

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Troy is Burning
Written by Matthew Minnicino
Directed by Richard Warner
Helms Theatre
November 30-December 2, 2011 at 8pm
December 3-4, 2011 at 2pm
U.Va. fourth-year playwright Matthew Minnicino transforms ancient Troy into the place that launched a thousand quips in this sharply satiric and thoroughly entertaining retelling of one of mythology’s longest and bloodiest conflicts. From the deadliest damsel of them all, Helen of Troy, to the hapless heroes who battle endlessly in her name, Minnicino creates a world where gods and generals collude and collide along a journey that challenges us to see love and war in brand new ways.

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Parade
Book by Alfred Uhry
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Directed by Robert Chapel
Culbreth Theatre
October 6-8, 12-15, 2011 at 8pm

This Tony Award-winning musical is based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man convicted of murdering young factory worker Mary Phagan in 1913 Atlanta, Georgia. From Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) and Jason Robert Brown, one of the today’s leading musical theatre composers, this is a gripping drama of the mob mentality that demands someone to blame in the name of justice, contrasting the deadly power of prejudice with a love story packed with lessons that transcend eras.

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