<p>In VANITY FAIR, Becky, orphaned and disadvantaged, is cunning and ambitious, while Amelia, born into privilege, is well-intentioned but naive. As they each strive to secure love, success, and stability in the patriarchy of early 19th-century London they face many obstacles to their dreams.</p>
<p><b>Directed by M.F.A. Directing student Kate Drummond</b></p>
<p>The Producing Artists Lab is an opportunity for student artists to share exploratory or developmental projects with the public. The Audience members may see a wider range in the levels of production and often more vigorous artistic risk-taking in these Lab productions. </p>
<p><strong>AIRNESS</strong></p>
<p>In this unique adaptation of "The Adding Machine," the unremarkable Mr. Zero, an accountant, is unexpectedly replaced by an adding machine. What follows is a series of remarkable events during and after his life that are outside of his control--or are they? In this devised adaptation, Director Ryan Purcell and student artists will examine the present-day emergence of artificial intelligence in the context of Rice’s prescient expressionistic classic of the 1920s.</p>
<p><strong><em><span data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW80454149 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW80454149 BCX0">THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE</span></span></em></strong><span data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun SCXW80454149 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW80454149 BCX0"> is a parable inspired by the Chinese play CHALK CIRCLE.
<p><em><strong><span class="TrackedChange SCXW68220959 BCX0"><span data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun SCXW68220959 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW68220959 BCX0">The Winter's Tale</span></span></span></strong></em><span class="TrackedChange SCXW68220959 BCX0"><span data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" class="TextRun SCXW68220959 BCX0"><span class="Norm
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Written by Jessica Huang / </strong><strong>Directed By Ren Langer and Sebastián Bravo Montenegro</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">April 22- 26, 2025<br> Preview April 18, at 7:30 pm</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>PART OF THE PRODUCING ARTISTS LABORATORY SERIES </strong></p>
<p><em><span class="TrackedChange SCXW159673289 BCX0 TextRun NormalTextRun" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US"><strong>THRIVE, OR WHAT YOU WILL</strong></span></em><span class="TrackedChange SCXW159673289 BCX0 TextRun NormalTextRun" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US"> tells the story of Jeanne Baret, a gender-nonconforming 18th-century herb woman, who embarks on an 11-year voyage around the world disguised as a </span><span class=&q
<p><strong>Written by Sarah Ruhl / Directed by Nick O’Leary </strong></p>
<p><strong>PART OF THE PRODUCING ARTISTS LABORATORY SERIES </strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem;">Audience members may see more vigorous artistic risk-taking in these Lab productions. From their first year to graduation, the Lab is a space for our student-artists to practice their craft.</span></p>
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<p><strong>Aren’t we better than our worst crimes? Are we just going to go on trading blood endlessly back and forth? What is the sense of that? Aren’t we tired? </strong></p>
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