Columbia University School of the Arts presents the MFA Acting class of 2023. ORLANDO, Virginia Woolf’s time-bending novel adapted by Sarah Ruhl, is a poetic romp through several centuries. The play chronicles the life (and additional lives) of a nobleman who dreams of becoming a poet as both time and gender shift. This production, directed by Jimmy Maize, will question how an individual exists within historical parameters. How do we experience the world differently? It’s about writing through time and time through gender.
Columbia University School of the Arts presents the MFA Acting class of 2023 in Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven. 18 raucous women, one goat, and the relentless presence of the Upper West Side’s residents are just a few layers to Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven. Through a series of explosive exchanges, this play shows the effects of displacement on a group of women seeking refuge at Hope House, a government-funded shelter. Within these walls, tension builds as relationships evolve. This production questions which individuals are left out of society’s fabric. And how do they persevere in a system that works against them?