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2019-20 Season

Mud

  • September 27 – October 6, 2019
  • WVU Canady Creative Arts Center Gladys G. Davis Theatre
  • By maria irene fornes
  • directed by Lee Blair

Maria Irene Fornes’s "Mud" portrays the characters Mae, Lloyd, and Henry trapped in poverty. Their struggles vary between a desire for language, knowledge, power and dreams. Their existence is functional, and the violence that emerges inarticulate. 

Trigger Warning:  Performances of  Mud contain adult language, description and depiction of sexual situations, verbal and physical abuse, adult humor, and gun violence. For mature audiences only. 

The Phantom Tollbooth

  • october 24 – 27, 2019
  • Metropolitan Theatre
  • by susan nanus

Having received a magic tollbooth, Milo decides to drive through it in his toy car, where he is transported to the Kingdom of Wisdom. Tasked with rescuing two exiled princesses from the Castle in the Air, Milo and his two companions go on a quest that gives him a newfound sense of admiration for learning. Juster's story uses the need for a love of education against a backdrop of adventure to love an otherwise boring life. 

Twelfth Night

  • november 15 – december 2, 2019
  • wvu canaday creative arts center gladys G. Davis Theatre
  • by william shakespeare

Separated from her twin Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola winds up on the coast of Illyria. Disguised as a boy called Cesario, Viola enters into Duke Orsino's service, falling in love in the process. Sent to "woo" Olivia for Orsino, Olivia is taken with Cesario, not knowing Viola is the one behind the disguise. Shakespeare's classic gender-bending comedy plays on the humor of disguise and deception in a complicated love triangle. 

Dance Now!

  • february 6 – 8, 2020
  • WVU Canady Creative Arts Center lyell B. Clay concert theatre

WVU’s annual dance concert gives audiences the opportunity to experience a wide variety of styles of dance in an eclectic and electric evening of choreography. A mix of student, faculty and guest choreographers join forces with visiting troupes to bring the best of dance to the College of Creative Arts. 

Hedda Gabler

  • march 5 – 8, 2020
  • WVU Canady Creative Arts Center Gladys G. DAvis theatre
  • by henrik ibsen

The eponymous Hedda Gabler has recently married George Tesman, a young academic. Upon returning from their honeymoon, the two are met with Eilert Løvborg, Hedda's former lover and George's rival. Eilert is a successful writer who is still in love with Hedda; something that delights her. Ibsen's work portrays a newlywed desperate for excitement and enchantment in a life devoid of both. 

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