DRama CLUB
2023-2024
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drama club is where readers get together at werner books to discuss a play from a list of theatrical works curated by dramashop. First impressions, symbolism, character analysis, cultural significance, and more. What would this piece look like to an Erie audience? What would be the challenges of producing this piece for a theatre like Dramashop?
funnyhouse of a negro
BY adrienne kennedy
“Funnyhouse of a Negro is a modern classic about the student Sarah, a young Black woman living in New York City, and her search for her identity in a complex, warring, and fractured world. This search is manifested in Sarah's many selves: Queen Victoria, the Duchess of Hapsburg, Patrice Lumumba, and Jesus Christ. Performed by colleges worldwide, Adrienne Kennedy's landmark play continues to resonate with each new generation.”
-Concord Theatricals
Saturday, February 17 2024
11:00 AM
the revolutionists
by Lauren Gunderson
“Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.”
-Dramatists Play Service
Saturday, March 16 2024
11:00 AM
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THE DRAMASHOP ORIGINALS FESTIVAL
APRIL 12-28, 2024
the aliens
by Annie Baker
Two angry young men sit behind a Vermont coffee shop and discuss music and Bukowski. When a lonely high-school student arrives on the scene, they decide to teach him everything they know. A play with music about friendship, art, love and death.
-Dramatists Play Service
Saturday, May 18 2024
11:00 AM
perfect arrangement
by topher payne
“It’s 1950, and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. There’s just one problem: Both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other’s partners as a carefully constructed cover. Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement, madcap classic sitcom-style laughs give way to provocative drama as two “All-American” couples are forced to stare down the closet door.”
-Concord Theatricals
Saturday, June 15 2024
11:00 AM