Tag: "play"

SETO to perform ‘The Adding Machine’ this week

SETO to perform ‘The Adding Machine’ this week

“The Adding Machine” explores deeper questions about humanity and technology, without answering them for the audience, according to senior theater major and director Kourtnee Brenner.

"The Adding Machine," a play produced by SETO opens this week
The SIUE Student Experimental Theater Organization (SETO) has produced and will perform the play written by Elmer Rice in 1922.
According to […]

Director Peter Cocuzza with the cast of "Distracted" at SIUE

Distracted at Dunham

The Department of Theater and Dance will be staging their production of “Distracted,” by Lisa Loomer this week from February 20th through 24th. The fast paced and offbeat play follows a family’s struggle to treat their child’s potential attention deficit disorder. Dealing with difficult subject manner in a somewhat comical way the play defies clear […]

SIUE students Rehearsing "What the Butler Saw"

What the Butler Saw

From November seventh through eleventh SIUE’s Department of Theater and Dance will be presenting Joe Orton’s, “What the Butler Saw.”
Originally premiering in 1969, “What the Butler Saw,” was Orton’s final play, and the second to be performed after this death. The play is an outrageous comedy revolving around Dr. Prentice, a psychiatrist, who attempts to […]

Cinderella, her wicked stepmother, and one of her wicked step sisters from SIUE's 2012 presentation of Cinderella: What you think you know is wrong

SIUE Presents: Cinderella

[Video] Last week SIUE’s Department of Theater and Dance hosted, “Cinderella: What You Think You Know is Wrong.” The play is a dark retelling of the classic fairytale, adapted and directed by freelance playwright and founder of The Hypocrities theater, Sean Graney.

 

Visiting professor Jose Tojo

Visiting professor Jose Tojo

This semester, a number of SIUE students have had the opportunity to get to know visiting professor Jose Tojo, and in doing so have been able to learn more about Maroon theater and culture. 43-year-old Tojo is originally from Suriname but now a resident of the Netherlands where he works as an officer of the […]

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