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The 2007-2008 season for the Department of Theatre and Dance

The Wedding Dress by Nelson Rodrigues
October 10-13, 17-20 at 8:00 pm, October 14, 21 at 2:00 pm

Directed by Lorenzo Gonzalez

In the Lupin Theater

The Wedding Dress roams the subconscious hallucinations of a middle-class young wife who has just been mortally injured in an auto accident. As she hovers at the brink of life, her delusional faculties snatch at memories both real and imagined.

An Evening of Dance by the Newcomb Dance Company
November 16 & 17 at 8:00 pm, November 18 at 2:00 pm

Alice Pascal Escher - Artistic Director

The Newcomb Dance Company presents its annual "An Evening of Dance" featuring the classic and the avant-garde. Choreographers include guest artist Abby Fiat from the University of Utah and Newcomb Dance faculty.

In Dixon Auditorium


Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead  By Bert V. Royal
November 28 - December 1, 5-7 at 8:00 pm, December 2 at 2:00pm

Directed by Gary Rucker


In the Lupin Theater

When CB’s dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife.  When his friends are too distracted by their own conditions to provide solace, CB befriends the target of the group’s bullying, setting in motion a friendship that will push teen angst to the very limits. 

Six Characters in Search of an Author By Luigi Pirandello
February 26 - March 1 at 8:00 pm, March 2 at 2:00 pm

Directed by Buzz Podewell

Six characters have been created by their author but left in an unfinished drama.  They arrive at a rehearsal of a play and proceed to convince the director to allow them to perform their true drama for him.


In the Lupin Theater

Newcomb Dance Company in Concert by the Newcomb Dance Company
March 27-29, April 3-5

Alice Pascal Escher - Artistic Director

The Newcomb Dance Company broadens its season by creating experimental dance works to be shown in the smaller, more intimate space of the Lupin Theatre.  Come have a visceral experience, up close and personal, as Newcomb Dance Company dancers explore the melding of movement, abstraction and storytelling.

Lupin Theater


Cloud 9 By Caryl Churchill
Apri 16-19, 23-26 at 8:00 pm, April 20, 27 at 2:00 pm

Directed by Carl Walker

In the Lab Theater

An amusing play set in both Victorian Africa as well as 1970's London, Cloud 9 is an inventive and surrealistic look at sexual repression, sexual role conditioning and colonial oppression.

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