Performance Studies Season
Footprints in Snow
October 13
By Kevin Pabst
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Media Arts Space @ 108 E. Franklin 5:00pm
Pabst’s grandfather died when he was four, leaving me no memories of him. This performance attempts to stage a kinship across barriers of time and space.
Feminist World, 2091 or: How I Learned to Expertly Judge Inadvertent Human Intrusion at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
November 11-15
By Chandler Classen, Ph. D. Candidate
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Black Box in Swain Hall
11th- 12th @ 7:30
13th @ 7:30
14th @ 2:00pm
15th @ 5:00pm
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A play satirizing actual Department of Energy report from the 1980’s that describes future threats to nuclear waste storage, which inevitably predicts the end of humankind as we know it.
Breaking up with Jesus
December 9-12
By Joey Richards, Ph. D. Candidate
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Media Arts Space @ 108 E. Franklin 5:00pm
Returning to the South after eight years away, Joey Richards is forced to confront and come to terms with a turbulent ex. In this autobiographical one-person show, Joey reveals the sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking journey of getting out of a toxic relationship with Jesus Christ. Grounded in small-town Georgia and blending comedy and tragedy, this is the story of how religion affects family, struggles with gender and sexuality, and issues of depression and anxiety. The performance is an attempt to address the question, "What happens when you realize that the Jesus-shaped hole in your life is really a scar?"
Beyond the Roots
March 4-7
By Imani Williams
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Media Arts Space @ 108 E. Franklin
4th-5th @7:30
6th @2:00 pm
7th @ 5:00pm
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Explores the reality of growing up while black in America through the eyes of a young girl living in the suburbs of Atlanta. An autoethnographic exploration of the impact of different events and how it shapes one’s future.
Cascade
April 7-24
By Jim Grimsley, Directed by Joseph Megel, Co-Production with StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance & Process Series
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Black Box Swain
week 1 7th.- 9th @7:30, 10th @3:00pm
week 2 14th- 16th @7:30, 17th @3:00pm
week 3 20th- 23rd @7:30, 24th @3:00pm
Acclaimed NC playwright and UNC alumni, Jim Grimsley, takes us to
The audience is transported not-so-distant future where the climate crisis has reached its ultimate conclusion. Society is breaking down, resources are scarce, and people are on the move.