Skidmore College Theatre Announces Spring 2016 Season

The Skidmore College Department of Theater is pleased to announce their Spring 2016 Seminar production season.

Black Box production: THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
By Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Hannah Baker ('16) and Theo Saroglou ('16)

In a corner of Purgatory called Hope, Judas Iscariot is on trial for betraying Jesus Christ. Through the testimonies of larger-than-life biblical and historical characters like Mother Teresa, Sigmund Freud, and Satan, THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT digs in to our natural human tendency to question our own self-worth and overall "goodness" and, ultimately, attempts to define the line between good and evil.

Performances from March 4-9. All shows at 8:00pm, except Sunday matinee at 2:00pm.

Mainstage production: HECUBA - AN AMERICAN PREMIERE
By Marina Carr
Directed by Ian Belton

In Marina Carr's reimagining of the legend of HECUBA, Troy has fallen. It's the end of war and the beginning of something worse. As the cries die down after the final battle, there are reckonings to be made. In this American Premiere production, celebrated Off-Broadway director and Skidmore Alum Ian Belton steers a course headlong into the ultra-violent slaughter, highlighting uncanny parallels to not only geo-politics but our own notions of gender, race and religion. Through it all HECUBA, the queen of Troy, is portrayed not as the pitiable victim but rather a rarified nobility in the power of her unflinching conditions as a mother, a wife, and ruler of a kingdom of fire and death. In a world where human instinct has been ravaged by violence, is everything as it seems in the hearts of the winner and those they have defeated?

Performances from April 8 - 17. All shows at 8:00pm, except Sunday matinees at 2:00pm.

Tickets are $12 General Admission and $8 Students + Seniors

Box Office: 518-580-5439 or email: boxoffice@skidmore.edu.

The Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater of Skidmore College is located at 815 No. Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866.

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