BENEFITS OF BEING A SUBSCRIBER:

-Admission to all nine shows in Season 5, including Theatregasm! (Reservation required)

-Five additional comp tickets usable anytime! (Reservation required)

-Flexibility! Our subscribers don’t need to decide months in advance when  they want to attend shows.  Simply visit our website http://www.theatredart.org and click on “”Tickets and Directions” to reserve seats 24 hours before you plan on attending, or call our box office voicemail at 719-357-8321.  IF something comes up and you can’t attend a night you made reservations, don’t worry, we’ll move your reservation at no charge!

-Exclusive offers and discounts on concessions, merchandise, and additional tickets only available to subscribers!

-The satisfaction in the knowledge that you are supporting local art! 

THEATREdART Season 5

THEATREdART is pleased to announce what is, by far, our biggest and most ambitious season yet, featuring three new original plays by talented local writers, the return of a Halloween favorite, and a bevy of other productions guaranteed to challenge and thrill you.

With our move to our new venue downtown, we have doubled the number of shows in our season.  With 9 shows, TdA boasts the largest season in town, with subscriptions at a fraction of the price at any other theatre. 

Theatregasm V

August 12^th through 28^th

THEATREdART’s annual short play festival featuring original plays written, directed, and acted by members of the community.

JoB an immersive theatre experience adapted from Antonin Artaud’s Jet of Blood

September 16^th through October 2^nd

“This is not for you.”

A first of its kind for the region, THEATREdART presents a theatrical experience unlike any you’ve had before.  Part performance, part installation art, JoB is a theatrical production you move through, rather than sit and watch passively.  Based on Jet of Blood, Artaud’s notorious exploration of “metaphysical dread” JoB will challenge your perception of what theatre is, and the relationship between performer and spectator.

Grand Guignol

October 14^th through 30^th

The plays of the Grand Guignol make a return to THEATREdART just in time for Halloween.  If you missed the first set of plays in 2008, it specialized in naturalistic horror shows. Its name is often used as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment, a genre popular from Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre (for instance Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Webster's The White Devil) to today's splatter films.   an evening of Grand Guignol consists of a several short horror-themed plays from 19^th century France interspersed with vaudeville and burlesque acts.

Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare

November 11^th through 27^th

Perhaps Shakespeare’s most modern play, Troilus and Cressida has been maligned and misunderstood for years.  Set during the Trojan War, Troilus and Cressida is a story of love in times of war, but not in the traditional sense.  Shakespeare depicts the famous figures from Homer’s Iliad  and Odyssey  in a more cynical light.  Hector is indecisive and unsure, Ajax is a muscle-bound buffoon, and Achilles is a lazy and treacherous opportunist.  The play skewers the notion of “intrinsic value” questioning the ideals of love, honor, and duty. 

The Show Trial by Jeff Keele

January 27^th through February 12^th

If you saw The Proud Sons of Porlock you got a taste of what The Show Trial has to offer.  For those of you who haven’t,  The Show Trial is a black farce, a satire on theatre and its role in the struggle between the classes. In an unnamed Eastern European land, a new form of theatre has made its way to the stage: the “prisoner play”, in which a convicted criminal stars in a recreation of his life and the events leading up to his crime before he is executed in front of a live audience.  There are epic sword fights, murders, knife fights with dogs, riding competitions, robots, theatrical singularities, pocket universes, conspiracies, over-the-top melodrama, and it all ends in a riot - never a dull moment.

Mercury Fur by Philip Ridley

February 24^th through March 11^th

Mercury Fur is set in a post-apocalyptic version of London's East End, where terror, gangs, violence and drugs in the form of butterflies rule. The protagonists are a gang of youths, surviving by their wits. They deal the butterflies, engaging in trade with objects from places like the British Museum, looted by their butterfly-addicted customers. But their main source of 'income' is holding parties for wealthy clients, in which their wildest fantasies are brought to life.  In the non-stop two hours of the play, the party in question revolves around the murder of a child with a meat hook, staged in a Vietnam-style fantasy of the Party Guest. The gang ultimately have to face the question of how far they are willing to go in order to save the people they love.

Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino  

March 23^rd through  April 8^th

 “If you shoot this man, you die next.  Repeat. If you shoot this man, you die next.” –Mr. White

THEATREdART adapts Quentin Tarantino’s riveting tale of a heist gone wrong, in an immersive, real-time theatrical experience.  Rather than just sitting in the audience, you’re in the warehouse with the desperate diamond thieves.  Follow the characters you want to, or just hang out and watch Mr. Orange bleed out.  No fancy theatre trappings.  No chairs. No mercy.

Ogres in the Office 2 by Brian Mann

April 20^th through May 6^th

Franklin Pizza is fresh out of college and is hired to work at a fancy office in a fancy building on the fancy side of town.  Thinking things are going okay, Franklin instead discovers the dangerous side of work as the various factions within the office begin to battle with each other.  Mayhem, and not so civil war ensue in the office while Franklin tries to survive and understand it all.

Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd

May 18^th through June 3^rd

“Where words prevail not, violence prevails.” -Lorenzo

THEATREdART wades neck-deep in to the mother of all revenge tragedies.  Staged in the late 16^th century The Spanish Tragedy was wildly popular and influential in its time, and is credited with creating a new genre in English theatre, the revenge tragedy.  The Spanish Tragedy was often referred to (or parodied) in works written by other Elizabethan playwrights, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe.  Many elements of The Spanish Tragedy, such as the play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer and a ghost intent on vengeance, appear in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Thomas Kyd is frequently proposed as the author of the hypothetical “Ur-Hamlet” that may have been one of Shakespeare's primary sources for Hamlet.)  The Spanish Tragedy promises high drama and an even higher body count.